On 12 February 2026, eBay updated its UK rate card for business sellers. None of the headline percentages most sellers watch moved — which is exactly why the changes are easy to miss on an invoice. Here's what actually changed, from eBay's own rate-card announcement.
The fixed per-order final value fee split in two: orders up to £10 stay at £0.30, orders above £10 now pay £0.40. Ten pence sounds like nothing until you multiply it across a month of orders — a seller shipping 500 orders over £10 pays £50/month more (£60 with VAT for the non-registered), for the same sales. Because it's flat, it's invisible in percentage terms on big orders and most noticeable on the £11–£20 band.
Business, Office & Industrial rose from 11.9% to 12.5%. Vehicle Parts & Accessories moved from a flat 8.9% to a tiered 9.5% up to £750, then 3% — cheaper for very large orders, dearer for typical ones. Tyres went the other way: 7.9%/£250 tiers became 6.9%/£750, a cut for most tyre sales. GPS and Power Tools kept 6.9% but the tier threshold moved from £400 to £750. If you sell in a reshaped category, your effective rate changed even though "your" percentage may look the same.
Three ten-minute jobs. Check your categories against the new rate card (the changes were per-category, not blanket). Re-run your pricing on typical orders — especially if you live in the £11–£20 band where the flat fee rise bites proportionally hardest. And if you're VAT-registered but never added your number to eBay, that's still the single biggest fee cut available to you: every rate above is charged ex-VAT, with 20% added for everyone else.
Source: eBay UK Seller Centre rate-card announcement, verified August 2026. Not affiliated with eBay Inc. Not financial advice.