TCGplayer vs. eBay vs. Cardmarket vs. Mana Pool

Search for how TCGplayer's economics compare to eBay, Cardmarket, and Mana Pool, and the results are thin. One is an affiliate page with a reason to steer you toward whichever marketplace pays it. One is a forum thread: useful anecdotes, no structured comparison. One is a card-supply retailer's blog post that mentions all four marketplaces by name but never gets into seller economics for any of them. And one is Mana Pool's own seller-info page, which compares itself to the others from its own vantage point, the way any company's own comparison page does. Nobody without a stake in the outcome has actually built the four-way comparison.

We don't operate on eBay, Cardmarket, or Mana Pool. Hoard reprices TCGplayer listings. That's disclosed, not buried, and it's also why this page can say plainly where we couldn't independently verify a number instead of filling the gap with a plausible-sounding figure.

TCGplayer: the fee stack sellers already know best

A standard TCGplayer sale carries a 10.75% commission plus a 2.5% transaction fee. Enroll in Pro and that commission drops to 9.25%, with a separate 2.5% Pro Fee added — 11.75% combined, not 10.75% plus 2.5%. Since Feb 10, 2026, commission and Pro fees combined are capped at $75 per product. TCGplayer Direct, the program that ships and handles disputes on a seller's behalf, restructured its own per-item fees on Jun 18, 2026. None of that is worth re-deriving here; TCGplayer's full fee stack is already broken down in one place, with each 2026 change dated and sourced.

eBay: TCGplayer's owner, and a marketplace in its own right

TCGplayer is owned by eBay. That's a structural fact worth knowing before comparing the two as if they were unrelated options: selling on both means two different fee schedules from the same parent company, not two fully independent alternatives. What that ownership has actually changed operationally is covered on its own terms in our look at eBay's ownership of TCGplayer, rather than argued here.

On eBay's own commission rate: eBay charges its own standard marketplace final value fee, which varies by category and by whether an item qualifies for any current promotional rate. We checked eBay's own seller fee documentation and couldn't load a stable, current figure to cite here with confidence, so we're not stating one. Check eBay's current seller fee schedule directly for the rate that applies to your category before treating any third-party blog's number as current. Fee schedules change, and a stale percentage is worse than none.

Cardmarket: a smaller, more consolidated tool ecosystem

Cardmarket is the marketplace most often set against TCGplayer by European sellers weighing where to list. On its own seller commission rate, the same caveat applies as with eBay: we checked Cardmarket's own seller fee documentation and couldn't confirm a current percentage stable enough to state here, so we're leaving it unstated rather than guessing. Cardmarket's own fee documentation, linked below, is the source to check directly.

What we could confirm is the shape of Cardmarket's third-party tool ecosystem, and it looks different from TCGplayer's. TCG PowerTools is one of two tools listed on Cardmarket's official partner page — alongside Scryfall, a card search engine, not a pricing or inventory competitor — and its own marketing states it serves 1,700-plus traders across 50 million-plus articles. That doesn't say anything about which marketplace is better; it says the third-party tooling around Cardmarket is smaller and more consolidated than TCGplayer's, where the third-party ecosystem is wider and more fragmented across competing tools, Hoard included.

Mana Pool: the newest of the four, and the one with no native pricing tool at all

Mana Pool is the newest marketplace of the four, built as both a marketplace and a trade platform. Its built-in pricing tools are bulk price modifiers and a price floor rather than rule-based autopricing; sellers there rely on third-party pricing tools to reprice their listings. That's a real structural fact for anyone weighing Mana Pool as a primary channel: whatever marketplace you land on, you're not skipping the repricing decision. TCGplayer sellers reach for Pro's MassPrice or a third-party repricer; Mana Pool sellers reach for a third-party repricer from the start, because there's no native rule engine to reach for first. Mana Pool's published schedule is a 5% marketplace fee on the item price — not charged on shipping, capped at $50 per item — plus 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing on the whole order.

Repricing looks different on each of these

Fees are only one side of the decision. The other is how repricing strategy differs by marketplace, and that difference is real across these four. TCGplayer sellers can lean on Pro's MassPrice or a third-party repricer layered on top. Cardmarket sellers lean on TCG PowerTools, the consolidated incumbent, or an equivalent. Mana Pool sellers have no native option at all and go straight to a third-party tool. Whichever marketplace you're weighing, the pricing tool that goes with it is part of the real cost of selling there, not an afterthought to figure out later.

None of that changes if you're only selling on TCGplayer today and considering whether to add a second channel, or already spread across more than one of these four. The fee stack and the tooling around it are both real inputs to that decision, and both are worth checking against current numbers rather than a five-year-old forum post or a page written by someone with a reason to pick a side.

If it's specifically TCGplayer and Mana Pool you're weighing against each other, rather than all four at once, the two-way comparison covers the same ground without the eBay and Cardmarket detail in between.

If TCGplayer is already where most of your inventory lives, see what switching marketplaces would actually cost you before assuming a different fee percentage automatically means a better outcome. The comparison only means something once it's run against your own numbers, not an average.

Common questions

Which of these four marketplaces has native autopricing built in?

Only TCGplayer, through MassPrice bundled with Pro. Cardmarket and Mana Pool sellers both depend on third-party pricing tools instead.

Is TCGplayer's fee structure different from eBay's?

They're related but separate — eBay owns TCGplayer, so the two run different fee schedules from the same parent company, not two fully independent alternatives. See what eBay's ownership has actually changed.

What's the dominant third-party pricing tool on Cardmarket?

TCG PowerTools — one of two tools listed on Cardmarket's official partner page, alongside Scryfall (a card search engine, not a pricing competitor). PowerTools' own marketing states it serves over 1,700 traders across more than 50 million articles.

Sources: TCGplayer Fees · TCGplayer Direct Commission and Pro Fee Cap · Simpler and More Predictable Fees Coming for TCGplayer Direct · eBay Selling Fees · Cardmarket General Terms and Conditions (Provider's Fee Table) · Cardmarket Partner Apps and Services · Mana Pool Marketplace Fees · Mana Pool Cap on Fees