According to Etsy.com, "Etsy is an online marketplace for buying & selling all things handmade." Since numerous people have e-mailed me and requested it, I decided to make an Etsy Fee Calculator. This free web-based tool can be used to easily calculate Etsy fees (and optionally PayPal fees) for any amount. It also supports multiple quantity listings and has a special field for your "cost of materials". Now you can quickly determine your what your Etsy fees would be and how much profit you can make from selling an item on Etsy.com.

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Here's a Half.com Fee Calculator I wrote to help people quickly estimate what it would cost to sell an item on Half.com. Simply enter in the price of your item and it can tell you what your Half.com fees would be and what amount you would receive after fees. It can also tell you what your Half.com shipping reimbursement would be based on the type of item you are selling and your shipping method.

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Here's an Overstock Auctions Fee Calculator I wrote to help people calculate all the fees and profit they can expect when selling on Overstock Auctions. Overstock Auctions is getting bigger and bigger each day and I know a lot of people are switching over from eBay because the fees are so much lower. Since they have a fees page but no fee calculator on their site I decided to make one.

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Here's my newly redesigned PayPal Fee Calculator. PPCalc, as I call it, is a free web-based tool that allows people to calculate what their PayPal fees would be to receive a certain amount or to reverse calculate their fees to determine what amount a person would have to send them for them to receive a certain amount after fees.
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If you've ever wanted to know how much it costs to sell on ePier, then you might want to check out my ePier Fee Calculator. ePier is an online auction site similar to eBay, but unlike eBay, ePier doesn't charge any fees up-front to list items. You only pay once your item sells or for optional things like listing upgrades. From the looks of it, they seem to be growing bigger and bigger every day. As of the time of this writing, they say they have about 124,000 registered users and get around 200,000 visitors per month. It could be something to look into if you're looking for a cheap alternative to eBay.
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