Every sell page in this niche opens with the same promises: free registration,
no listing fees, millions of buyers. Most of them never print the one number
that decides what you keep. On one of the largest platforms below, the page
recruiting sellers names no commission at all — not a figure, not a range.
This is written by a marketplace, and we are in the table. So instead of a
verdict you get the numbers, the date they were checked, and the arithmetic
done against our own row as well as everyone else's.
The percentage on your category, at your seller level. Published rates are
usually a range, and the bottom of it belongs to somebody with a thousand sales.
The fixed fee per sale. A flat charge is invisible on a $500 account and
brutal on a $30 one. It is why the lowest percentage does not always win.
When the money is released, and what is withheld at payout. "Instant
payout" on a marketplace with escrow means instant after the buyer confirms,
which is a different sentence.
Who eats a chargeback. You handed over a login three weeks ago, and the
card payment is reversed. Whose loss is that? This never appears on a sell
page, and when it happens it is larger than every percentage on this list.
| Platform | From the seller | Fixed per sale | Listing fee |
|---|
| buysmurf | 0% — you receive exactly your price | none | none |
| Eldorado | 10% on accounts | — | none |
| G2G | 10–15%, by category and seller level | — | none |
| PlayerAuctions | 10–13% | $0.99 | none |
| ZeusX | 10% standard, from 5% at the top seller rank | — | none |
| GameBoost | seller keeps 80% on their published Fortnite table | — | none |
Where a platform publishes a range, the table shows the upper bound — that
is what a new seller pays, and the conditions for reaching the lower one are
usually not published at all. Everything here was read off each platform's own
pages in August 2026. Marketplaces change fees without announcements, so verify
before you move inventory: a comparison page that calls these numbers
guaranteed is lying to you about something it does not control.
Take $40 — close to the median of our own catalogue — against 10% plus $0.99.
The fixed part adds 2.5 percentage points, so the real cut is 12.5%. The same
$0.99 on a $500 account is 0.2 points, and the ranking flips. The fee
calculator runs this for your price across the same platforms;
it works from the percentage rather than from the brand, so it stays useful
when a number here goes stale.
The zero is not a promotion with an expiry date, and it is not a headline rate
with conditions underneath it. You set the price you want to receive, and the
order hands you back exactly that. Nothing is taken from your side of the
deal — not a commission, not a listing fee, not a monthly fee, not a flat
charge per sale, and nothing at payout.
That is worth checking against the table above rather than taking on trust,
because it is the one line on this page that changes the arithmetic instead of
shifting it. On a $40 account, a 10% platform plus a $0.99 charge leaves you
$35.01. On a $500 account it leaves you $449.01. Here both leave you $40 and
$500.
Three things follow from a zero that most sellers only notice later:
- Your number cannot move. What you will be paid is fixed on the listing at
the moment you create it — there is no version of this where the rate changes
under a listing that is already up, and no version where you sell at one
number and get paid at another.
- Pricing is one decision instead of two. You work out what the account is
worth to you. You do not then work backwards through somebody's percentage to
find the number to type.
- A cheap listing is not punished. The flat per-sale fee is what quietly
eats $20 and $30 accounts on other platforms; on a shelf where a third of the
stock is under $20, that is the difference between worth listing and not.
In steps, and the order of them is the answer:
- You deliver, and the buyer checks the login.
- He confirms — or the order confirms itself if he goes quiet, so a silent
buyer cannot park your money indefinitely.
- The buyer's warranty runs.
- The money lands on your seller balance, and you request a payout — crypto or
card — with nothing withheld from it.
That is slower than a platform releasing funds on delivery, and it is honest to
say so. What the wait buys is the next section.
Escrow is always sold as buyer protection. For a seller it does something the
buyer never notices: a handover confirmed through escrow cannot be pulled
back out of your balance weeks later. On a classifieds site, a forum thread
or a Discord DM, the payment can be reversed after the account has changed
hands, and you are left with neither. That risk shows up as a percentage
nowhere, which is exactly why direct deals look cheaper than they are — worth
reading how escrow and chargebacks actually
work once before
deciding that 10% is expensive.
Ask any platform, in writing:
- What is the commission on my category, at my seller level?
- Is there a fixed fee per sale, and does it apply to a $20 listing?
- What is withheld at payout, which methods exist, and is there a minimum?
- When does the money become mine — on delivery, on confirmation, or after a
warranty period?
- If the buyer charges back after confirming, whose loss is it?
- Who decides a dispute, in what time, and can I read the procedure before I
need it?
A platform that will not answer 1 and 4 in writing is asking you to price
blind. That is the real cost of a sell page that never names a number.
The selling page walks the listing flow and prices it against live
catalogue data, and the seller application is the way in. Before
either, spend five minutes on pricing against the market instead of against
your hours — the
largest number in this article is still the one you write on the listing.
Buying as well as selling? The same table from the other side:
seven marketplaces compared for
buyers.