The best resale apps in 2026

Still the widest buyer pool and the only one of these that will sell a car part, a camera lens, a sewing machine and a pair of jeans equally well. If an item has a model number, a serial, or a part number, eBay is where somebody is searching for it by that number tonight.

The standard rate is 13.6% plus $0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above that, but categories move a long way around it: books, movies and music run 15.3%, women’s handbags and jewellery 15%, authenticated sneakers over $150 drop to 8%, and guitars sit at 6.7%. The detail that catches people is the fee base — the percentage applies to the whole order including the shipping the buyer paid and the sales tax, so a $40 item with a $12 label costs more in fees than the headline suggests.

The most expensive of the clothing apps and, for the right inventory, still worth it. Poshmark is a social marketplace: buyers browse, follow and share, and sellers who share their closet and send offers to likers move meaningfully more than sellers who just list. It rewards work in a way the search-driven apps do not.

The fee is 20% on anything $15 and up, or a flat $2.95 below that — which is 37% of an $8 sale, so the floor of what is worth listing here is higher than people think. Poshmark trialled a lower-commission structure with a buyer protection fee in 2024 and reversed it after seller backlash; the 20% / $2.95 model has held since.

The general-goods app: electronics, toys, homeware, games, tools, clothing. Cheaper than eBay on the seller side at a flat 10%, with no listing fee and no separate processing fee since the old 2.9% + $0.50 charge was removed in January 2025. Buyers pay their own 3.6% protection fee, which does not come out of your side.

The trade-off is reach and buyer behaviour. Mercari’s audience is smaller than eBay’s and more price-sensitive, and lowball offers are the norm rather than the exception. It is an excellent second or third channel for the volume of ordinary items that crosslisting exists to move.

Depop dropped its seller commission to zero in July 2024 and has kept it there, so what you pay is the payments fee: 3.3% plus $0.45. On a $40 sale that is under two dollars, the second-cheapest on this list.

What sells is narrow and specific — 90s and Y2K pieces, streetwear, band tees, workwear, anything with a look. Styling is the whole game: flat-lays and on-model shots outperform hanger photos by a distance, and the app reads as a feed rather than a catalogue. Depop was Etsy-owned until eBay acquired it in mid-2026, which puts the 0% commission in the category of things worth watching rather than depending on — list there, but do not build the business on a fee that a new owner sets.

Europe’s biggest secondhand clothing app launched in the US in January 2026 with the model that made it enormous there: sellers pay nothing at all. No listing fee, no commission, no payment processing. The buyer pays a Buyer Protection fee — roughly 5% of the item price plus $0.70 — and you keep the full price.

The catch is on the other side of the ledger. Prices run lower than on Poshmark or eBay because the buyer is paying the fee and knows it, the catalogue is skewed to everyday clothing rather than designer, and US inventory and buyer density are still building. Listing there costs you nothing but the time, which makes it the easiest channel on this list to justify adding.

Free for local pickup, which makes it unbeatable for the things nobody wants to ship: sofas, dining sets, appliances, exercise equipment, bulk lots. Volume of buyers is enormous because it is attached to Facebook rather than a shopping app people have to remember to open.

Shipped orders carry a 10% selling fee with a $0.80 minimum. The real cost here is not the fee, it is the handling — no-shows, haggling in Messenger and scam attempts are constant, and there is no structure protecting either side of a local deal. Price with room to come down and keep the conversation short.

The main local alternative, and worth running alongside Facebook rather than instead of it — the audiences overlap less than you would expect, particularly outside big cities. Local sales are free; shipped orders carry a 12.9% service fee with a $1.99 minimum, the highest shipped rate on this list.

It leans toward furniture, vehicles, tools and electronics, and its verification and rating systems are more structured than Facebook’s. Same rule applies: it is a local channel first, and the shipping option is a convenience rather than the reason to be there.

Live auction selling, and the fastest-growing channel in resale for the categories that suit it: trading cards, comics, sneakers, vintage clothing, toys, coins. Sell-through is the pitch — a two-hour show can clear inventory that would sit in a store for a season, because the format creates urgency that a listing cannot.

You pay 8% commission on the item plus 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing on the total order, with reduced commission in some categories — 5% on electronics and 4% on coins as of April 2026. The cost that does not appear in the fee schedule is your evening: this is a channel you work live, not one you list to and leave.

Etsy only allows vintage that is at least 20 years old, which cuts out most thrift inventory — but for the pieces that qualify, it is the buyer pool that understands them and pays accordingly. Mid-century glassware, 70s patterns, old jewellery, vintage linens: the same item routinely clears more here than on a general marketplace.

Fees stack in three parts: $0.20 to list, 6.5% transaction on the total including shipping, and 3% + $0.25 payment processing in the US. Listings run four months and renew automatically, so the $0.20 recurs on anything slow. Optional extras — offsite ads, Etsy Plus — are what push sellers’ effective rate well above the headline.

Below the general apps sits a layer of category-specific ones, and for the right item they beat every app above on price achieved. Grailed and Vestiaire Collective for menswear and designer, The RealReal and ThredUp for luxury and bulk clothing on consignment, StockX and GOAT for sneakers, Chairish and Kashew for furniture, Reverb for instruments, Discogs for records, Ruby Lane and 1stDibs for antiques.

Their economics differ sharply: the sneaker platforms take under 10% but authenticate and hold your payout, while consignment services like The RealReal take anywhere from 20% to 70% depending on the price band and do all the work. The decision is per item, not per business — a $600 designer coat justifies a Vestiaire listing; a $20 sweater does not.