Depop vs eBay: where should you sell this item?

The short answer, by what you sell

Depop calls itself a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace for secondhand fashion. eBay's selling page says you can sell almost anything, from homemade goods to used or unused items from your closet. So for clothes, shoes and accessories both are open, and the fee gap decides most cases. Outside fashion, Depop's prohibited-items list rules out a lot, technology and electronics among them.

Three things can still tip a fashion seller to eBay: buyers abroad, how fast you get paid, and a buyer who wants to pay the moment an offer is accepted. The table is our read of both marketplaces' own pages.

Sources: Depop Newsroom: About Depop ("circular fashion marketplace"), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay: Selling on eBay ("You can sell almost anything", payouts within two business days), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: What are Depop's prohibited items? (technology and electronics), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Help: Selling fees (athletic shoes 8% from $150, no per-order fee), checked 14 October 2026

What one sale costs on each

Depop removed its selling fee for sellers in the US, UK and Australia. What a US seller pays is Depop Payments processing: 3.3% + $0.45, charged on the item price plus shipping and any tax. eBay charges one final value fee when the item sells: 13.6% of the total sale up to $7,500 in most categories, which covers general clothing, plus $0.40 an order ($0.30 on orders of $10 or less). eBay includes payment processing in that fee.

Both charge their percentage on the shipping the buyer pays, so the calculator starts at a $40 item with $6 shipping and $12 of cost. At those rates eBay's fee runs about three to four times Depop's, and the gap in dollars grows with the price. Change the numbers to try your own sale.

• Neither charges to list in this comparison: Depop's fee table has no listing fee, and eBay gives every account up to 250 free listings a month, then $0.35 each.
• Depop charges US and UK buyers a Marketplace fee at checkout, up to 5% of the item price plus up to $1. It never comes out of your payout, but it raises the price the buyer sees.
• eBay adds an international fee of 1.65% when the buyer's address is outside the US, unless the order goes through eBay International Shipping.

Depop fee calculator: your price, your shipping, your payout → · eBay fee calculator: what you keep after the final value fee →

Sources: Depop Help Centre: Seller fees and charges (no selling fee in the US, UK and Australia, US processing 3.3% + $0.45), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: What is the Marketplace fee? (up to 5% + up to $1, paid by the buyer), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Help: Selling fees (13.6% most categories, $0.30 or $0.40 an order, processing included, 250 free listings, 1.65% international fee), checked 14 October 2026

Boosting and Promoted Listings: where the gap closes

Depop's Boosted Listings charge 12% of the item price to US and UK sellers when a buyer interacts with the boosted tile and buys within 28 days. Shipping is added to that 12% only if you arranged your own label. On the $40 sale shipped with a Depop label, the boost takes the fee from $1.97 to $6.77, a few cents more than eBay's $6.66 with no ads at all.

eBay's general Promoted Listings work the same way in principle: you set an ad rate between 2% and 100% of the total sale, and pay it only when the item sells within 30 days of a click on the ad. Since eBay starts from the higher base, even the minimum 2% rate takes the same $46 sale from $6.66 to $7.58 (our arithmetic).

• Depop boost: 12% for US and UK sellers on new listings from 23 March 2026, 8% elsewhere. Charged only if the buyer saw the boosted tile and bought within 28 days.
• eBay general campaign: 2% to 100% of the total sale, including shipping and tax, only if the item sells within 30 days of a click on the ad.
• On either, a sale that didn't come through the ad pays no ad fee.

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Sources: Depop Help Centre: Boosted Listings (12% in the UK and US, 28 days), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: Seller fees and charges (boosting fee, new listings from 23 March 2026), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Help: General campaign strategy (ad rate 2% to 100%, sale within 30 days of a click), checked 14 October 2026

Who shops where, in each marketplace's own words

Depop counts more than 56 million registered users and over 68 million items for sale on its newsroom, and the release announcing the eBay deal describes a highly engaged Gen Z and Millennial customer base. Its search mainly shows a shopper listings from the country set in their preferences, and buyers can't send offers on items from another country.

eBay's selling page speaks to a broader crowd: cash in on your pre-loved pieces, millions of buyers are waiting, and its page title names electronics, fashion and home & garden. Neither page we read gives a comparable buyer count for the US alone, so we don't rank the two by size.

• Fashion with a trend or vintage angle: Depop's own description of its buyers fits.
• A known item a buyer narrows down by brand and size: eBay's filters are built for it (see the listing section below).
• Anything that isn't fashion: check Depop's prohibited-items list before you list.

Sources: Depop Newsroom: Facts and figures (56.3M registered users, 68M+ items for sale), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Newsroom: eBay completes acquisition of Depop (Gen Z and Millennial customer base), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: How Depop ranks search results and recommends listings (seller location), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: Make Offer (no offers on items outside your country), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay: Selling on eBay (pre-loved pieces, millions of buyers), checked 14 October 2026

One jacket, two listings: a first line or an 80-character title

Depop has no title field. Its help tells you to start the description with a title, the words you would search for as a buyer, then add measurements, condition and shipping, using up to five hashtags. Depop also generates tags and keywords for you, and its search matches a shopper's words against the description, brand, category and color.

eBay gives you an 80-character title and tells you to use as many characters as you can. Its system finds the titles that closely match a search, and buyers then filter by item specifics such as brand, size and color. So the same jacket comes out in two shapes, and the words that sit in Depop's first line and hashtags have to fit eBay's title and specifics instead.

Check a Depop first line before you post it → · Check an eBay title against the 80-character limit →

Sources: Depop Help Centre: How to list an item (up to five hashtags, photos), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: Tips for describing your item (start with a title, automatic tags), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: How Depop ranks search results and recommends listings (description, brand, category, color), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Seller Center: Create great listings ("You've got 80 characters"), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Seller Center: Item specifics (buyers filter search results by them), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Seller Center: Take great photos (up to 24), checked 14 October 2026

Offers, shipping and getting paid

The two settle a sale at different speeds. On eBay you have 24 hours to answer a Best Offer, and in most cases the buyer pays the moment you accept, which ends the listing. On Depop you have 14 days to answer, the buyer then has 14 days to pay, and until they do anyone can still buy the item at full price.

Money moves differently too. eBay sends payouts to your bank Monday to Friday, within two business days of confirming the buyer's payment. Depop puts the money in your Depop Balance two business days after the item shows as delivered, or ten business days after the sale if that comes first, and a withdrawal can take up to five days to reach your bank.

Depop shipping: who pays, which label, and what it does to your payout →

Sources: Depop Help Centre: Make Offer (14 days to answer, 14 days to pay), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: How to ship - US (Depop Shipping, 10 days), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: How to ship - Worldwide (tracked, the seller's responsibility), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: How do I get paid? - US, checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Help: Adding Best Offer to your listing (24 hours, immediate payment), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Help: Setting up your shipping options (integrated carriers, tracking within handling time), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay Help: eBay International Shipping program (domestic hub, customs and returns handled), checked 14 October 2026 · eBay: Selling on eBay (When will I get paid?), checked 14 October 2026

eBay owns Depop now: what that changes for you

eBay completed its acquisition of Depop on 30 July 2026. Depop's own release says it keeps its distinct brand, platform, customer experience and culture, and operates as a complementary business within eBay. It describes no shared listings, shared search or shared fees, and Depop's fee and ranking pages we read on 14 October 2026 say nothing about eBay.

So for a seller, nothing about the choice has merged. A Depop listing is not an eBay listing, each marketplace charges its own fees, and each ranks its own search. If you want both audiences, you still list twice.

Sources: Depop Newsroom: eBay completes acquisition of Depop (30 July 2026, distinct brand and platform), checked 14 October 2026 · Depop Help Centre: Seller fees and charges (10% only outside the UK, US and Australia), checked 14 October 2026

Selling on both at once

Nothing in the pages we read from either marketplace stops you listing the same piece on both. What eBay does forbid is finishing a sale off eBay: if you offer or ask for contact details to sell outside eBay, it charges the final value fee on the total even when the item doesn't sell.

1. 1

   Write each listing for its own form

   On Depop, the search words go in the first line and the five hashtags. On eBay, they fill the 80-character title, and brand, size and color go into item specifics.

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   Price each for its own fees

   Run the same item through both calculators. On a $40 item with $6 shipping, eBay takes $4.69 more, so a price that works on Depop may need raising on eBay.

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   End the other listing the moment a one-off sells

   An accepted eBay Best Offer usually closes the sale at once, while an accepted Depop offer leaves the item open to anyone who pays first.

Cross-listing SEO: what to rewrite when a listing moves to another marketplace →

Source: eBay Help: Selling fees (buying or selling outside of eBay), checked 14 October 2026

What Sellura does here, and what it doesn't

Sellura writes both listings from one description of the item. Choose Depop and it returns a first line, a description and five hashtags. Choose eBay and it returns a title inside 80 characters, search keyword phrases and item specifics. The jacket headlines above are what it returned on 14 October 2026. Each listing gets a 0 to 100 score that is deterministic: the same listing always gets the same number, every point traces to a weighted factor, and each weak factor comes with one concrete fix.

Free, no card: the headline preview and score on every generation (15 before we ask you to make an account), the Depop and eBay fee calculators, and the Depop and eBay title checkers. The Listing Grader is free to try, with 2 checks. A credit unlocks one finished listing with every field. Starter is $15 a month for 25 credits, or $150 a year. Pro is $24 a month for 65 credits plus bulk, or $240 a year.

• It doesn't post to Depop or eBay, sync stock or end the other listing for you.
• It doesn't pick the marketplace. The item, the fees and the buyers above do.
• It has no research database, no rank tracking and no ads analysis, and it is not affiliated with Depop or eBay.

Describe one item, see the Depop first line and its score free → · Plans and credits →