Enter what you would pay and what it sells for. See your real net profit, ROI, and the most you can pay, after eBay or Shopify fees and shipping. Built for trading card sellers.
TCGPursuit auto-prices from live sold comps, scans the market for underpriced cards to flip, tracks your real profit and loss, and pushes listings straight to eBay. The full command center for trading card sellers.
Join the waitlistFlipping trading cards only works when the resale price clears every cost, not just the buy price. The three that sink most deals are marketplace fees, shipping, and the fixed per-order charge you pay whether the item sold for 5 dollars or 50. This calculator bakes all of them in so the net profit you see is the number that actually lands in your account.
For Trading Card Singles, eBay's final value fee runs about 13.25 percent of the total sale plus a fixed 0.40 per order. If you promote the listing, the ad rate is charged on top as a percentage of the sale. Sales to international buyers add roughly 1.65 percent. At 250 dollars and up, single cards route through eBay's Authenticity Guarantee, which is free but adds a few days to delivery. The calculator flags that band so a fast flip does not stall on you.
On your own Shopify store there is no marketplace commission. You pay card processing of about 2.9 percent plus 0.30 per order through Shopify Payments. The trade off is that you bring your own traffic, so if you run ads to the store, put that spend in the ad rate field to keep the picture honest.
Shipping is where new sellers lose money they did not plan for. The calculator suggests a rate by item type and warns you when a cheaper option is off the table:
Every suggested rate is editable, so if you have negotiated cheaper labels you can type your own number.
The most useful output for sourcing is the break-even buy price: the most you can pay per unit and still come out even after everything. It turns a vague gut check into a hard ceiling. If a card breaks even at 11.40 and the seller wants 8, you have room. If they want 13, you walk or you negotiate.
When you buy in bulk, the real question is whether to break the lot into singles or sell it whole. Singles usually bring more gross revenue but cost more in per-sale fees, shipping, and hours of your time. A lot clears in one sale with one fee and one shipment at a lower price. Enter a quantity above one and the calculator shows both outcomes side by side and names the winner in dollars.