Resale Value Desk
A listed price of 100 nets about 82 before shipping once a buyer fee near 15% and payment processing near 3% are counted — so prices are built backwards from the net.
The buyer's fee of about 15% sits on top of your listed price, and payment processing of roughly 3% comes out alongside it. The arithmetic that matters: a listed 100 nets about 82 before shipping. The buyer tests their total, not your number, so your list price is bounded by what the all-in figure can be.
Build the ask backwards. Decide the net you will accept, add the fee load back on, and check the resulting list price against the percentage-of-retail band for your category — the bands on What a garment resells for. If the backwards-built ask sits above the band, the market is telling you the net you want is not available for this piece.
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Shipping is the next deduction, and it is yours to control only through accuracy: weigh and measure the packed garment before publishing, because a shipping surprise comes straight out of the 82. Then come returns, which run 5–15% by category; tailored pieces carry high measurement risk, and their asking prices have that expected loss included.
Time is the quietest fee. A listing's performance depends far more on its first 48 hours than on the rest of its life, and holding an unrealistic ask for weeks costs more than it protects: a relist 20–30% lower usually clears the item faster. Price to clear, not to be the number you hoped for.
Two habits keep the net intact. Grade condition honestly on the five-step scale — see Grading condition — because soft grading returns as a literal return. And photograph flat-laid with consistent light and a visible size tag, because verifiable listings hold full price while unverifiable ones get discounted.
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