Mercari Fee Calculator (vs Rakuma, Yahoo! Flea Market & Auctions)
Compare seller fees on Mercari, Rakuma, Yahoo! Flea Market and Yahoo! Auctions in Japan. See your net payout and profit margin after cost and shipping, or work backward from a target profit to a listing price.
How marketplace fees differ across Japan's flea market apps
Mercari, Rakuma, Yahoo! Flea Market and Yahoo! Auctions each deduct a percentage-based selling fee from the price a buyer pays before paying out the seller. The rate differs by service (10% on Mercari, 5% on Yahoo! Flea Market, and so on), and a separate flat withdrawal fee applies when you transfer your balance to a bank account, so the amount you actually receive is always lower than the sticker price.
This tool takes your selling price, cost of goods, shipping cost and withdrawal fee, and works out the fee amount, your net payout, and the resulting profit and profit margin. Switch to reverse mode to instead enter a target profit and find the selling price you would need to charge.
How to use the marketplace fee calculator
- Choose the marketplace Pick Mercari, Rakuma, Yahoo! Flea Market or Yahoo! Auctions to auto-fill a typical fee rate and withdrawal fee.
- Check the fee rate and withdrawal fee Overwrite either value if a campaign discount or your own selling history gives you a different rate.
- Enter the selling price, cost and shipping In "Calculate profit" mode, these figures produce your net payout and profit.
- Or derive a price from a target profit Switch to "Derive price" mode to see the listing price needed to reach a profit goal you enter.
Tips for getting more out of it
- The same item can net very different amounts across services: Mercari (10%), Rakuma (4.5-10%), Yahoo! Flea Market (5%) and Yahoo! Auctions (10%). The gap grows with the sale price, so it is worth comparing before you list a higher-value item.
- Since the withdrawal fee is a flat amount per transfer, requesting payouts less frequently in larger batches keeps that fee from eating into a bigger share of smaller sales.
- When a marketplace is running a fee-discount campaign, overwrite the "fee rate" field with the discounted rate to get an accurate payout estimate for that period.
- The "Derive price" mode is useful not only for casual decluttering sales but also for setting a minimum acceptable price when reselling for profit.
When this comes in handy
Deciding which marketplace to list on
Compare how much of the same sale price you would actually keep across the four services.
Tracking margins for resale or decluttering
Confirm before you list whether a sale still leaves enough profit once fees and cost are subtracted.
Pricing to hit a specific profit target
Work backward from the profit you want to the selling price you should set.
Comparing free-shipping vs buyer-pays-shipping listings
See how much profit you give up by covering shipping yourself.
Glossary
- Selling fee
- The percentage of the selling price a marketplace keeps whenever an item sells.
- Withdrawal fee
- A flat charge, typically ¥100-¥210, for transferring your sales balance to a bank account.
- Yahoo! Flea Market
- Renamed from "PayPay Flea Market" in November 2023; a fixed-price marketplace run by LY Corporation.
- Yahoo! Auctions
- Renamed from "Yahoo! Auction (Yafuoku!)" in November 2023; LY Corporation's auction-style marketplace.
- Final value fee
- The name Yahoo! Auctions uses for the percentage-based fee charged on the winning bid price.
- Profit margin
- In this tool, the profit (net payout minus cost of goods) expressed as a percentage of the selling price.
Frequently asked questions
Side Note — why the fee rates differ so much between services
Marketplace fees are not just a cut for the operator; they also fund the traffic, fraud prevention and customer support each service invests in. Mercari has kept a relatively high 10% rate for years largely because its huge base of listings and buyers lets it deliver faster sales, a value proposition sellers are willing to pay a premium for. Yahoo! Flea Market's 5% rate, among the lowest in the industry, looks more like a price war tactic to win sellers over as the newer entrant.
Rakuma's tiered, performance-based fee is a particularly interesting design. Rather than simply competing on a flat low price, it rewards sellers who list and sell consistently over time, which suggests a strategy aimed at retaining heavy, habitual resellers rather than casual one-off sellers. The fact that the same item at the same price can leave you with very different take-home amounts depending on the service — and on your own selling history — reflects these differing strategic priorities.