Resale research for thrift flippers
Know what it’s worth before you buy it.
Most thrift finds lose money in the fees, not the price tag. ThriftProfit breaks down what each marketplace actually takes, what sells, and what a piece has to resell for to be worth the rack space — and Thrift Snap does the maths on your phone while you’re still standing in the aisle.
Free, no signup, no email wall. The calculator runs entirely in your browser.
13.6%
eBay final value fee
eBay’s final value fee on most categories, charged on the whole order — item, shipping and sales tax included.
20%
Poshmark's cut
On every sale of $15 or more. Under $15 it’s a flat $2.95, which is proportionally far worse.
$0
What most flippers model
The gap between sticker price and take-home is where beginners quietly lose money.
A $40 sale is not $40. After the marketplace fee, the payment fee, the shipping you underestimated and the $6 you paid for the item, a good-looking flip routinely nets under $20 — and a bad one nets nothing. Every guide on this site is written around that arithmetic.
Start here
The guides that answer the money questions
9 min read
Reseller fees explained: what eBay, Poshmark, Mercari and Depop actually take in 2026
A verified, side-by-side breakdown of US seller fees on eBay, Poshmark, Mercari and Depop — including the per-order fees and payout charges most calculators miss.
Read the guide →8 min read
How to price a thrift find for resale (without guessing)
A repeatable five-step method for pricing thrift finds: read sold comps not asking prices, subtract every fee, apply a minimum profit floor, and decide before you reach the register.
Read the guide →9 min read
Poshmark vs Depop vs Mercari vs eBay: which should you sell clothes on?
A practical comparison of the four big US resale marketplaces — fees, audiences, shipping models, and which categories genuinely sell best on each.
Read the guide →The app
Should I buy it, and what do I net?
Thrift Snap is the fast version of everything on this site. Photograph a piece, and it comes back with a resale estimate, a side-by-side of what each marketplace would pay you after fees, and a plain buy-or-skip call — in the time it takes to check a size tag.
Real eBay sold comparables
Prices come from actual completed eBay sales, not a guess at retail. Estimates for other marketplaces are labelled as estimates, every time.
Net profit, not gross
Marketplace fee, payment fee and shipping are subtracted before the number is shown to you.
A listing you can paste
Title, description and category, written from the photo, ready for the marketplace you picked.
Free scans every month. Premium is 3 days free, then $49.99 a year — see what’s included.
Worked example
A Patagonia fleece, $8 on the rack.
- eBay sold median
- $54.00
- Final value fee (13.6%)
- −$7.34
- Per-order fee
- −$0.40
- Shipping you eat
- −$9.00
- Cost of the item
- −$8.00
- Net profit
- $29.26
Sticker maths says $46 profit. Real maths says $29.26. That 36% gap is the whole reason this site exists.
Run the numbers on your own find
The same fee models the app uses, as a free calculator. Nothing is uploaded — it all happens in your browser.