CrosslistyIs it worth listing? Check before you bother
Enter the sale price, what you paid, shipping and your minutes, and set what your time is worth. The calculator tells you what the sale pays per hour, and the lowest price that reaches your rate. Cheap items often fail, because fixed fees and packing take most of the money.
The shortcut: If listing is the slow part, Crosslisty fills the form, so a cheap item takes less of your time.
Add to Chrome, free- Sellers often report that $1 and $2 items are not worth it on their own.
- Fixed fees take a big share of low prices.
- Bundling several cheap items can rescue them.
Updated October 2026. Crosslisty is a Chrome extension (it also works in Brave and Edge) that copies a listing to the other marketplaces, fills each form for you, and removes sold items from your other listings.
What to do with cheap items
- Bundle them. Sell five similar items as one listing, so you pay one fee and one shipping label.
- Sell locally. Facebook local pickup has no selling fee.
- Choose the right marketplace. Poshmark’s $2.95 flat fee can take most of a $5 sale.
- Donate or skip. Your time may be worth more.
Why low prices do so badly
| You keep on $5 | Fees taken | |
|---|---|---|
| Vinted | $5.00 | $0.00 |
| Mercari | $4.50 | $0.50 |
| Depop | $4.38 | $0.62 |
| $4.20 | $0.80 | |
| Etsy | $4.07 | $0.93 |
| eBay | $4.02 | $0.98 |
| Grailed | $2.35 | $2.65 |
| Poshmark | $2.05 | $2.95 |
Before you pay for shipping, what you paid for the item or any of your time. Grailed’s $1.99 minimum and Poshmark’s $2.95 flat fee are the hardest on small sales.
Setting your hourly rate
Use what you could earn with that time instead, or a number you’d happily work for. Time a few real items from photo to drop-off. A rough number is much better than not counting your time at all.
Sources
- eBay selling fees
- Poshmark fees
- Mercari fees
- Depop seller fees
- Etsy fees
- Facebook selling fees
- Vinted help
- Grailed fees
Questions
Are $1 and $2 items worth listing?
Usually not by themselves once fees, shipping and time are counted. Sellers in r/Mercari often advise bundling instead.
What is the lowest price worth selling for?
It depends on your fees, shipping and time. Enter your own numbers above to get your lowest price.
Should I sell cheap items on eBay?
If they ship cheaply, perhaps. eBay’s per-order fee is $0.30 on orders up to $10, which hurts less than Poshmark’s flat fee.
Crosslisty does these steps for you. Free for 5 fills a day, or $15 a month for unlimited crosslisting. Cancel anytime.