I went to put OfferUp's shipping fee into a table.
It is a boring number. Everyone has it. I searched, and the guides agreed: 12.9%, with a $1.99 minimum. A couple of them had 2026 in the title.
Then I opened OfferUp's own help center to link the source, and found an article called Nationwide shipping ending.
OfferUp stopped letting new listings ship on September 23, 2025. A month later it removed the shipping option from existing listings that had no sale in progress. OfferUp says local sales were always the heart of the app, so that is where it is putting its effort now.
So at least some of the 2026 fee guides are carefully explaining a fee for a service that ended a year ago.
That was enough to make me throw out my table and rebuild it from each company's own help pages. Here is what I found, checked September 15, 2026.
The short table
| Platform | Local pickup, paid in person | Shipped sales | Listing limits or posting fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook Marketplace | $0 | 10% per shipment, $0.80 minimum | No listing fee, though accounts can hit listing limits |
| OfferUp | No selling fee listed | Not available since Sept 2025 | 200 free listings a month in most categories, lower caps in some |
| Craigslist | $0 | Not a Craigslist feature | $5 for cars, trucks, RVs, motorcycles by owner. Household items free |
| Nextdoor | No fee listed | Not a Nextdoor feature | Personal items only. No business or reseller listings |
| eBay (local pickup) | 13.6% + $0.40 per order | Same fee | 250 free listings a month |
| ClearList | $0 commission | Not a ClearList feature | Free for 3 active items. $20 for 50 items over 30 days, $39 for 200 over 60 days |
Full disclosure, since it is in the table: I build ClearList. I will get to where it makes sense and where it does not.
Facebook Marketplace
Local pickup is free. If a buyer comes to your door and pays you, Meta takes nothing.
Shipped sales cost 10%, with a minimum of $0.80 per shipment. Meta doubled this from 5% on April 15, 2024 (the seller notice, as reported at the time), and that is the last change I can find a record of. If you do ship something, look at the payout screen before you agree to a price, so the fee is not a surprise.
For most household stuff, this means Marketplace is free in practice. Nobody is shipping a dresser.
OfferUp
No shipping, so no shipping fee. Every new listing has been local pickup only since September 23, 2025.
The number that does matter now is the free listing limit. OfferUp gives you a set number of free listings each month, by category:
| Category | Free listings per month |
|---|---|
| Cars & Trucks | 1 |
| Motorcycles | 1 |
| Appliances | 15 |
| Cell Phones & Accessories | 15 |
| Furniture | 25 |
| Jewelry & Accessories | 25 |
| Tools & Machinery | 25 |
| All other categories | 200 combined |
The limits reset on the first of the month and do not roll over. Past the limit, you can buy single listings or, in some categories, a monthly package. OfferUp's help article does not print the price. You see it in the app.
If you are clearing a whole house, watch the furniture cap. Twenty-five furniture listings sounds like plenty until you count the bedroom sets. And OfferUp is explicit that posting a chair under "Other" to dodge the furniture cap breaks their rules.
Craigslist
Craigslist's posting fees page starts with "All craigslist postings are free, except for" and then a short list. For a regular person clearing out a house, the one that matters is $5 for cars, trucks, RVs, and motorcycles by owner in the US. Dealer categories, jobs, gigs, and services are also on the list.
Furniture, household goods, and electronics by owner are not. So for most of us, Craigslist costs nothing.
Nextdoor
Nextdoor's For Sale & Free guidelines do not list a fee for posting personal items. What they list instead are rules, and a few are easy to miss:
- Personal items only. Listing for a business is not allowed, and that explicitly includes resellers and commercial estate sellers.
- One listing per item at a time. No duplicates.
- No delete-and-repost to bump a listing back to the top. You can repost after the old one expires.
Payment happens between neighbors. Nextdoor's own advice, if you use a payment app, is to stick to an established one like Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, or Cash App.
eBay local pickup
eBay is the only platform in this table where local pickup still costs a percentage.
On eBay's local pickup flow, the buyer pays at eBay checkout, then brings a QR code or 6-digit code when they collect the item. You scan or enter it to confirm. Because the money moves through eBay, the sale runs through eBay's normal fees:
- 13.6% of the sale up to $7,500, for most categories
- $0.40 per order over $10 ($0.30 for orders of $10 or less)
- 250 free listings a month before insertion fees
In return, the buyer has paid before they show up, which takes most of the sting out of a no-show. It is not a guarantee: buyers can still cancel, and refunds happen. On a $400 dresser with no sales tax, the fee comes to $54.80.
eBay's percentage also applies to sales tax, so a real invoice runs slightly higher than the numbers here.
The math on clearing a house
Fees on one item are easy to shrug off. Here is what they look like on a realistic clear-out.
Say you have 30 items worth $3,000 total, all sold locally, each over $10, each to a different buyer as its own order, in ordinary categories, with no sales tax. Bundle several items into one order and the per-order fees drop.
| Platform | What you pay in fees |
|---|---|
| Facebook Marketplace | $0 |
| Craigslist | $0 |
| Nextdoor | $0 |
| OfferUp | $0, if you stay under the category limits. More if 30 of them are furniture |
| eBay local pickup | About $420 ($408 at 13.6%, plus $12 in per-order fees) |
| ClearList | $20 for the Move Sale pass. No commission |
So on fees alone, the free marketplaces win, and nothing I build changes that.
What the table does not show is the cost that is not money. Thirty items on Marketplace means thirty separate listings to write and answer. Some of those buyers will say they are coming at two, and then not come. I wrote about that part in why moving sales stall on day three.
That is the trade ClearList is built around. One page for everything, one link you can text to friends or share in your own posts, and buyers reserve items in a queue instead of messaging you one at a time. You pay a flat $20 instead of a percentage. (Check each marketplace's rules before dropping outside links into a listing. Nextdoor, for one, does not allow links to items on other classified sites.)
If you are selling three things, it is not worth it. Use Marketplace. If you are selling thirty, the fees were already zero, so the $20 is paying for your time.
What I would do
- Selling a few items locally? Facebook Marketplace. It is free and it has the buyers.
- Selling a car? Budget $5 for Craigslist, and 1 free OfferUp listing a month.
- Worried about no-shows on something valuable? eBay local pickup, because the buyer pays before they arrive. Price in the 13.6%, and remember a buyer can still cancel.
- Clearing a whole house? Put everything on one page with one link, so buyers see it all at once. That is what ClearList does, but a shared spreadsheet and a lot of patience also work.
- Reading any fee guide, including this one? Check the date, then check the company's help page. OfferUp's shipping fee is a good reminder that these numbers can quietly stop being true.
Sources, all checked on 15 September 2026: OfferUp's shipping notice and free listing limits, Craigslist's posting fees, eBay's selling fees and local pickup, and Nextdoor's For Sale & Free guidelines. Facebook's fee is in Marketplace's own help pages, which do not render for logged-out readers, so the link above goes to a report of Meta's seller notice instead.
If a fee changes before I notice, tell me. I will fix the table and say what changed.
Related reading: Facebook Marketplace vs. Craigslist for selling your home's stuff and where to sell your stuff fast.