Same $50 listing. 20% vs sticker keep.

Same closet sticker. Poshmark still takes a listing-price commission. Vinted still prints a $0 take. Live get-started (HTTP 200, 28 Aug 2026) charges US sellers $2.95 under $15, or 20% of the listing price at $15+ (Poshmark fees explained). Selling basics still says there are no fees for selling; How it works still says you keep 100% of what you earn (Vinted fees explained). Buyer-paid $6.49 Ground Advantage sits beside that 20%, not inside it — unless the unread Fee Policy says otherwise. Vinted Buyer Protection ($0.70+5%) sits on the buyer. It does not come off keep. Identity of this card: 20% of listing vs sticker keep. Mercari vs Vinted is 10% of item+buyer-paid shipping vs that Wallet ($45.00, not $40.00). Depop vs Vinted is Stripe 3.3%+$0.45 vs that Wallet ($47.90, not $40.00).

Same $50 card (Poshmark 20% of listing vs Vinted sticker)

The unique unit: listing-price 20% against a printed $0 take

Free to list is not free to pay out. Get-started still takes 20% of the listing price once the sticker is $15 or more — or a single $2.95 under $15. That 20% is not Mercari’s 10%, and it is not Depop’s 3.3% + $0.45. Vinted is not a second 20% column. US seller help still sends the listed price to the Wallet. That is why $50 leftover is $40.00 vs $50.00 here, not the $45.00 vs $50.00 empty-ship leftover on Mercari vs Vinted, and not the $47.90 vs $50.00 Stripe leftover on Depop vs Vinted. The $15 cliff is Poshmark’s. The Wallet does not have one.

Poshmark (re-opened 28 Aug 2026): get-started guide (HTTP 200 — $2.95 / 20% of listing), Terms of Service (ToS 4.6; Fee Policy incorporated, body unread this fetch; /legal/fee_policy 404), support article 297755057 (no body this fetch), $6.49 Ground Advantage blog, heavier-items $5 / $10, Promoted Closet Terms (no default CPC). Vinted (HTTP 200, 28 Aug 2026): Selling basics, How it works, US Price List (stamp 1 July 2024), Is selling on Vinted free?, Who pays for shipping?. Stacks: Poshmark seller fees explained, Vinted seller fees explained. Other pairs: Mercari vs Vinted (10% of item+ship vs sticker), Depop vs Vinted (Stripe vs sticker). Hub: /seller-fees/.

1. Poshmark’s $15 cliff still takes 20% of a $50 listing

Get-started, opened 28 Aug 2026 (HTTP 200):

“For sales under $15, we charge a single flat rate of $2.95. You keep the rest. For sales of $15 or more, we charge 20% of the listing price and you keep 80%.”

There is no sliding scale. A sale is either the $2.95 cliff or the 20% band. $50 is the 20% band. That is twenty points of the sticker — twice Mercari’s ten, and not Stripe’s $0.45 flat.

• 20% × $50 = $10.00 off payout.
• Comparable leftover: $40.00 before COGS.
• $10.00 is the listing-price gap versus Vinted’s sticker. Overweight and bump sit on later rows.

$12 is the other band: $2.95 off, leftover $9.05 versus a $12 Wallet. Effective take is about 24.6% — the cliff is not “always cheaper than 20%.” $15 exactly: 20% × $15 = $3.00, leftover $12.00 versus $15.00. The Wallet has no $15 switch. Stripe’s $0.45 bite on a $12 Depop sale is a processing-flat story, not a cliff — that pair is Depop vs Vinted. Get-started’s under-$15 cell is $2.95, not $0.45. Do not mill Stripe onto Poshmark.

Get-started also says listing is free, Poshmark handles the financial transaction including credit card fees, and you can withdraw earnings anytime for free. That is why this card does not stack a 2.9% processor on the 20%, and why Mercari Instant Pay $3 does not appear as a Poshmark row.

Do not use the October 2024 1-2-3 / 5.99%-of-order-total experiment. That blog still 404s. Live get-started still quotes $2.95 / 20% of listing price.

2. The Wallet is still the sticker. Do not “even” it with a 20% haircut.

Re-opened Selling basics, 28 Aug 2026, HTTP 200:

“There are no fees for selling on Vinted, and you can list as many items as you like.”

Same day’s How it works page:

“There are no selling fees on Vinted. You keep 100% of what you earn.”

Help/373 still deposits the full selling price in the Wallet at close. Against get-started’s 20% of listing (or $2.95 under $15), that is a published $0 take, not a silent 20% we forgot to type. Leftover equals the sticker because those three US seller pages print it — not because this card averaged Mercari 10% and Depop Stripe into a fake Vinted rate.

Item Bump / Showcase still have no public US percent grid. The dollar is shown in-app before you pay. Paste a receipt; empty paste is $0. Copying Poshmark’s 20% (or the $2.95 cliff) onto a bump row “to match closets” invents a Vinted selling fee.

US Price List, last-updated stamp 1 July 2024, HTTP 200 this fetch:

“The Buyer will be automatically charged a Buyer Protection Fee… A fixed amount of $0.70; plus 5% of the item price agreed to between the Buyer and the Seller, not including the shipping costs, any additional costs and applicable taxes.”

Arithmetic on a $50 item: $3.20 on their checkout. Preview only. Official seller help does not instruct a Wallet haircut by that line. Help/342 is the buyer-facing cousin (“usually 5% + $0.70,” can vary by item, order value, single vs bundle). Folding $3.20 into keep is how blogs pretend Vinted also takes ~20%. This card will not.

Get-started has no $0.70+5% seller cell. Poshmark’s buyer line on this pair is the $6.49 Ground Advantage label — paid by the buyer, sitting outside the 20% on published get-started wording.

Other domains print other buyer formulas (UK Price List typically 3–8% + £0.3–£0.8; FR/DE typically 5% + €0.70). Those are still buyer-side. Seller wording still describes zero selling fees. This worksheet stays vinted.com USD. A UK band is not a $50 Wallet mill.

3. The unread Fee Policy is a gap — not a made-up 20%-of-ship cell

Terms 10.d (legal center, ToS 4.6, fetched 28 Aug 2026) incorporates a Fee Policy and says Poshmark charges fees as set forth there. The Fee Policy tab exists. This fetch still did not yield Fee Policy body text. https://poshmark.com/legal/fee_policy returned 404. Support article 297755057 did not return a body (timeout on this pass; previously 500, Wayback empty).

So the 20% here is quoted from live get-started, not from an unread legal exhibit. If Fee Policy ever puts shipping or tax in the 20% base, your closet statement wins. This page will not guess a 20%-of-$56.49 cell to look complete.

That gap is what makes this pair unlike Mercari vs Vinted: article 169 does print 10% of item + buyer-paid shipping. Get-started prints 20% of the listing price. Two published bases. Do not flatten them.

4. $6.49 sits beside keep. It is not Mercari’s ship-in-10%.

Both apps still mail. Poshmark’s 20% does not grow when the buyer pays the standard label — not on get-started. Vinted leftover is the listed price; How it works puts shipping on the buyer. Matching those two published rules means leftover is listing-price vs sticker, not listing-plus-postage vs sticker.

Last official standard rate: $6.49 USPS Ground Advantage, up to 5 lb, from 12 Sep 2025 (was $8.27). The 13 Feb 2026 heavier-items post said no changes to that standard label. Terms 10.j: buyer is responsible for shipping fees. A $50 Poshmark leftover of $40.00 does not shrink by $6.49 unless you actually funded the label. Dropping $6.49 into the 20% would invent 20% × $56.49 = $11.30 — a cell get-started does not print.

Overweight is the disclosed seller row: $5.00 for 5.1–10 lb and $10.00 for 10.1–15 lb, deducted from earnings (13 Feb 2026). $50 + $5 overweight → leftover $35.00 versus a $50 Wallet. That $5 left Poshmark. It did not become a Vinted percent.

Promoted Closet Terms (effective 16 May 2024) describe a paid CPC auction with a weekly budget and no published default click price. This page will not invent ~$0.09. Paste an invoice or leave ads at $0. Do not copy Depop Boost 12% onto either rail — that invert lives on other cards.

Custom Vinted shipping is the disclosed exception: help/458 says the seller pays custom shipping upfront and should bake it into the item price. Park that dollar as COGS or in the listed price you actually used. No invented custom-shipping %.

Worked $50: listing-price 20%, then the $15 cliff, then overweight

When $50.00 beats $40.00 — and when you left the unit

• Listing-price 20%, buyer-paid $6.49, no overweight, blank bump: $50.00 vs $40.00.
• $12 cliff: $9.05 vs $12.00. Still the $2.95 band. The $0.45-flat story is Depop’s.
• $15 start of 20%: $12.00 vs $15.00.
• Overweight on: Poshmark $35.00 at the $5 tier on this $50 listing; Wallet $50.00. Upgrade edited Poshmark only.
• Bump receipt: paste the dollar. Blank = $0. Inventing 20% as a Vinted selling fee is off this card.
• Seller-paid $6.49: subtract it from Poshmark leftover only if you funded it. It still does not enter the 20% on get-started.
• Fiction: subtracting Vinted $0.70+5% from keep, milling $6.49 into 20%, copying Instant Pay $3 or Boost 12% onto either rail, using the dead 1-2-3 / 5.99% experiment, inventing a Promoted Closet CPC, or treating this pair as Mercari 10% or Depop Stripe.

Replay $50 on the hub worksheet

1. Open the profit calculator at /seller-fees/ (home: realratecalc.com).
2. Poshmark $15+: referral 20, processing 0, flat 0. Under $15: referral 0, processing 0, flat 2.95. Leave shipping out of the percent. Park overweight $5 / $10 under other costs only when that tier billed. Do not type 6.49 into a fee-% box.
3. Vinted Buy now: referral 0, processing 0, flat 0. Official US seller pages still describe $0 selling fees and keep 100%. If a bump actually billed, park that receipt under other costs — never type 5 or 0.70 as a seller percent.
4. Sourcing and pack live in cost fields. Leftover here is platform take-home, not profit after the thrift run.
5. Reconcile a settled Poshmark earnings line or a Vinted Wallet Available row. Either Help page can move. Open Fee Policy in a logged-in browser; this fetch could not read it.

Ten points of item+ship versus this Wallet: Mercari vs Vinted. Stripe versus this Wallet: Depop vs Vinted. Full stacks: Poshmark fees explained, Vinted fees explained. Hub: seller-fees index.

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