Selling fees
The price on a box is not what lands in your account. A marketplace takes its cut of every sale, and on sealed Pokemon that cut is big enough to decide whether a position is actually up. Every net figure here runs through one schedule, so what you see is what a sale would clear.
The schedule
A sale pays 13.6% on the first $7,500, then 2.35% on the part above that, plus $0.40 for the order. That is eBay's non-store trading-card rate, taken as a typical sale, charged on the item price.
The tiers matter more than the headline rate:
- A $300 booster box pays $41.20 and clears $258.80. Effectively the full 13.6%.
- A $15,000 vintage box pays $1,196.65 and clears $13,803.35. Effectively about 8%.
A flat rate would have been close enough on the first and roughly double the truth on the second, which is exactly the sale where the netted number matters most.
Selling elsewhere can cost less. TCGplayer caps its commission per listing, so a five-figure box clears more there, not less. The schedule used here is the more expensive of the two, which makes a net figure closer to a floor than a best case.
One listing at a time
The tier break applies per order. Five $500 boxes pay the full rate five times over. One $15,000 box genuinely crosses into the cheaper tier.
So a position is netted listing by listing and then added up, never by running a book's total through the schedule. A stack of cheap boxes that happens to add up past $7,500 would otherwise collect a discount no real sale sequence earns.
What is left out
Shipping is not counted. It swings with box count and weight and is often buyer-paid, and picking a constant would invent precision that isn't there. Budget it yourself on top.
Promoted listings, store subscriptions, and income tax are out too. Paying to move a listing faster or to run a storefront is a choice, not a fixed part of a sale.
Where the number shows up
- On a product page, under the market price: what one box at today's price would clear.
- On a portfolio, under market value: what the whole book would clear, listing by listing.
Sales already recorded in a ledger are never re-netted. The price entered on a sale is the price that changed hands, and the realized figure keeps it. Netting it again would take the fee twice.
Ripping is a different bill
The open vs hold read nets the opened path at about 15% instead. Cracking a box means listing dozens of singles and clearing the bulk: more orders, a fixed fee on each, more packing, and lower prices per item to spread it all over. One sealed sale is a single order.
Both sides of that comparison are netted, the sealed side at the schedule above. A hold that only wins before fees isn't a hold.
The honest part
Marketplaces change their rates. These figures track the schedules published as of early 2026. What a sale actually clears also depends on where you list it, whether you eat the shipping, and how long you are willing to wait. Read the net figure as a realistic estimate of a typical sale, not a quote.