A matched Bid is not a closet ticket and not a live hammer. On StockX you post an Ask. When a Bid hits it, Help splits the cut by marketplace, not by a $120 hoodie line and not by a category FVF table. Verified takes a quarterly Seller-Level transaction percent (published 9% down to 7%) plus a flat 3% payment processing fee, then deducts a prepaid authentication-center label from payout (US estimated single-item base $5.00). Listings, at launch, charges no standard selling, processing, or shipping fees — the buyer covers those — but Listings is select/waitlist. Help does not publish a separate fee to post an Ask. That stack is not GOAT’s seller-rating 9.5% (CA 12.4%) plus a location seller fee and a 2.9% cash-out at withdrawal (same $200 Ask: StockX vs GOAT → $171.00 vs $170.90), not Grailed’s 9%/6% $120 line with a Label switch, not Whatnot’s 8% on the hammer (shipping excluded), and not eBay’s category final-value table.
Official Verified: transaction = Seller Level % of final sale price, floored at the published regional minimum (US default $5.00), plus 3% processing, plus the prepaid label (US estimated single-item base $5.00). Official Listings at launch: no standard selling, processing, or shipping fees. Default row is a $200 US Verified Level 1 Ask. Empty tax. Pick your actual level from Profile → Account Settings — do not guess a level this page did not publish.
Processing is always the published 3% on Verified and Flex. Listings processing is on the buyer at launch. Label field is ignored on Listings (buyer pays) and default-empty on Flex (item already at the warehouse).
Seller fees on StockX vary by marketplace. Listings Marketplace sellers currently pay no standard selling, processing, or shipping fees. Verified Marketplace sellers pay a 3% payment processing fee plus a transaction fee that decreases as their Seller Level increases.
— What are StockX's fees for Sellers?, fetched 28 Aug 2026 (HTTP 200)
That is the fork. A sneaker Ask on Verified is a percent-plus-percent-plus-label machine. The same SKU on Listings, if you have access, is a $0 standard-fee sale at launch — Help says sellers keep the full sale price minus penalty or return-related fees if an issue occurs, and that buyers cover processing, shipping, and optional verification. Listings is “currently available to select sellers.” This card will not pretend every account has it.
The selling-program page repeats the same split: Listings transaction fees are $0 at launch; Verified adds the 3% processing rate on top of the level percent. Seller Level is combined sales activity — number of sales or total value in USD — across both marketplaces, and it resets at the end of each calendar quarter. Source: Selling on StockX (JS app; fee table matches Help).
Go to Profile in Account Settings for the level that actually hits your payout. Help publishes five cells. This page copies them. It does not add a Level 0, a 9.5%, or a trailing-12-month remix that Help does not print.
| Level | Quarterly sales | Quarterly $ | Base transaction fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | None | 9% |
| 2 | 12 | $1,500 | 8.5% |
| 3 | 40 | $5,000 | 8% |
| 4 | 200 | $25,000 | 7.5% |
| 5 | 800 | $100,000 | 7% |
Copied from What are StockX's fees for Sellers?. “The transaction fee is calculated on the final sale price.” Processing is a separate 3% on Verified (and on Flex).
Help lists a regional minimum seller fee. United States: $5.00. Same dollar for “all other markets” in USD. Australia $7.50 AUD, Canada $7.00 CAD, EU €5.00, UK £4.50, and the rest of the printed list live on that article. For unlisted local currencies, Help says the $5.00 USD minimum may fluctuate with conversion.
On a $200 Level 1 Ask, 9% is $18.00 — the floor does not fire. On a $40 Level 1 Ask, 9% is $3.60, so this card charges $5.00 on the transaction line, then still adds 3% processing ($1.20) and the US $5.00 estimated label. That cheap-pair math is why a low Ask on Verified is a different animal from Mercari’s single 10% on item + buyer-paid shipping. Gap: Help never shows a worked $40 row, so if a payout floors processing+transaction together instead of the transaction line, the payout wins.
When an item sells on the Verified Marketplace, the shipping cost is deducted from your total payout. … Estimated base shipping rates are listed below. Shipping fees vary based on item price, item size, item type, carrier rates, and seller location.
— How much does shipping cost for Sellers?, fetched 28 Aug 2026 (HTTP 200)
United States estimated single-item base in that table: $5.00 USD. Help also says it adjusts for heavier items and multi-item packs, that drop-off can be free in some locations, and that you should use the generated label even if the weight looks wrong. This card defaults the Verified label to $5 because that is the published US base — it is not a promise your pair ships at $5.
Listings: prepaid label, buyer pays shipping at checkout, no seller cost to ship to the buyer. Returns: the seller would pay to get the item back. StockX Live follows the same buyer-pays rule, except a giveaway winner’s shipping is deducted from payout. Live is select/waitlist.
The March 2026 seller-program news post said US standard non-Flex shipping moved from $4 to $5. The live shipping article already prints $5. This page uses the Help table, not the old $4.
StockX sellers set an Ask. Buyers set a Bid. A sale is a match at the final sale price. The fee article prices that match. It does not publish a fee to place, edit, or hold an Ask. Insertion fees belong to eBay (when you are over the free allotment), not to this Bid/Ask board. If a future Help row names an Ask fee, replace this paragraph. Until then, inventing one would be the lie.
| Line | Official input | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Final sale / Ask | Matched Bid | $200.00 |
| Transaction | Level 1, 9% of $200 (above $5.00 min) | $18.00 |
| Payment processing | 3% of $200 | $6.00 |
| Prepaid label | US estimated single-item base | $5.00 |
| You keep | Planning subtraction — not on Help | $171.00 |
Level 5 on the same $200: 7% = $14.00 + $6.00 + $5.00 → keep $175.00. Climbing a level is a 0.5-point transaction cut, not a vanished label and not a vanished 3%. Same $200 on Listings at launch, if you have access: keep $200.00 before any penalty/return — that is Help’s “full sale price,” not a stealth 9%.
Cheap-pair trap, $40 Level 1 Verified US: transaction floors at $5.00 (9% would have been $3.60) + $1.20 processing + $5.00 label = $11.20 out of $40 → keep $28.80. Effective take is 28%, not 9%. The label and the minimum, not the level table, did that.
Flex is a pre-verify-and-warehouse program (Xpress Ship / rocket icon). Live Help “What is Flex?” (fetched 28 Aug 2026): all Flex sales take the 3% payment processing fee, plus the same published level percents — 9 / 8.5 / 8 / 7.5 / 7. US storage: 0–30 days free, 31–90 $1 USD/month, 90+ $2 USD/month, return $5 USD/item. Invoice on the 1st, charged on the 15th. Days-in-storage start when the item is available to list via Flex.
Flex Help does not deduct a Verified-style sale label (the pair is already at the center). It also does not publish a dollar to send inventory in. Paste storage from the invoice; do not let this card invent days. Source: What is Flex?
Same $200 sold item, empty extras, planning only — different machines:
| App | What official help actually prices | Why this page is not that page |
|---|---|---|
| StockX Verified L1 | 9% of Ask + 3% + US $5 estimated label → keep $171.00 | You are here. Bid/Ask match. Quarterly level. Authentication label. |
| GOAT US 90+ prepaid | 9.5% of listing + $5 seller fee + 2.9% cash-out on remaining → keep $170.90 | Cancellation rating, not quarterly volume. Cash-out at withdrawal, not 3% at the match. Same $200: StockX vs GOAT. |
| Grailed | $200 Label → 9% + 3.49% + $0.49 → keep $174.53 (processing base assumed) | $120 line + Label vs own-ship. No Seller Level ladder. No auth-center label. |
| Whatnot | 8% of hammer, shipping excluded; 2.9% + $0.30 on checkout total | Live show / Buy-It-Now. Commission never eats postage. No 9–7% ladder. |
| eBay (US) | Category final-value % + per-order fee; insertion over the free allotment | A table of categories, not a Bid/Ask board with an auth center. |
| Mercari | One 10% on item + buyer-paid shipping; buyer 3.6% is not yours | No levels. Shipping is always in the 10%. No $5 authentication label. |
StockX is a Bid/Ask authentication marketplace. The fee math follows that: a match, a level, a 3% rail, a label on Verified, and a $0-at-launch Listings caveated to select sellers. It is not a 50-state sales-tax calculator and it is not a “all apps take ~12%” blend.
Planning: $18.00 transaction + $6.00 processing + $5.00 estimated US label = $171.00 from the $200 Ask. Empty tax. Not a payout screenshot. Help does not print this keep; the percents and the $5 lines are official.
Not in the published fee article. The transaction fee sits on the final sale price after a match. No Ask-placement percent is listed.
At launch, Help says no standard selling, processing, or shipping fees, and that sellers keep the full sale price minus penalty or return-related fees if an issue occurs. Access is select/waitlist. Do not price a Verified Ask as if it were Listings.
No. Empty tax = $0 extra. Help prices the transaction fee on the final sale price. We will not invent Illinois vs California.
Profile page in Account Settings, per Help. Quarterly sales count or quarterly dollar volume. This page will not assign you a level.
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