Where to Sell Vintage Items and Home Décor in 2026: Etsy, eBay, Facebook or Mercari?

Profitvana Editorial Team · Updated November 9, 2026

Vintage sells to two different buyers: decorators, who shop Etsy by look, and collectors, who search eBay by maker. Etsy admits items 20 years old or more and charges about 10.5% all-in plus Offsite Ads; eBay charges 13.6% plus $0.40 and runs auctions; Mercari's 10% and Facebook's free local sales catch the rest. Breakable items ship badly, which pushes the heaviest and most fragile pieces local.

What you receive on each platform: $80 piece, buyer pays $15 shipping, boxed label costs you $15

Computed from each platform’s verified fee schedule in our registry, on the same sale, ranked by what lands in your account after fees and the label. Costs the schedule does not carry (optional promotion, returns, your time) are in the notes and the text below.

#	Platform	Fees	Label you pay	You receive	Schedule used
1	Facebook Marketplace Local pickup, cash: no fee; best for fragile and heavy pieces	$0.000% of price	$15.00	$80.00	no platform fee
2	Etsy $0.20 + 6.5% + 3% + $0.25; items must be 20+ years old; +15% on Offsite Ads orders	$9.4811.8% of price	$15.00	$70.53	$0.20 + 6.5% + 3% + $0.25
3	Mercari 10% on item + shipping	$9.5011.9% of price	$15.00	$70.50	10%
4	eBay 13.6% + $0.40; auctions for collector pieces	$13.3216.7% of price	$15.00	$66.68	13.6% + $0.40

Etsy for the decorator, eBay for the collector

Etsy's vintage category requires items at least 20 years old and reaches buyers who shop by style, room and colour; a mid-century lamp or a set of ceramics sells there at a decorator's price without the buyer knowing the maker. The cost is Etsy's stack: $0.20 listing, 6.5% on item plus shipping, 3% + $0.25 processing (about $7.00 on our basket), and 15% more on orders Etsy advertised. eBay's buyers search by maker, pattern and model number, and its auctions set prices for collectible pieces; the fee is 13.6% plus $0.40 on the total including shipping (about $13.30), a third more than Etsy, justified when the piece has a name a collector would search.

Mercari, Facebook and the fragility problem

Mercari's flat 10% on item plus shipping is the cheapest shipped option and its buyers browse décor by photo, which suits inexpensive pieces. Facebook Marketplace is free for local pickup and the right venue for anything heavy, large or fragile: a $15 boxed label for a ceramic that breaks is a $95 loss. Double-boxing and insurance add $5–10 to any shipped piece above $50, and that cost belongs in the price on every platform.

What changed this year

Etsy raised its regulatory operating fee for sellers outside the US on 22 June 2026 and runs a holiday Share & Save rebate of 6.5% until 4 January 2027 on orders a seller brings through their own links, which for a vintage seller with a social following briefly makes Etsy's effective rate about 4%. eBay's rates were unchanged in 2026 apart from the currency-conversion spread rising to 3.25% on 14 October.

Verdict

Decorative pieces sold on look: Etsy, priced for the blended rate.
Named makers, patterns and collectibles: eBay, with an auction for anything rare.
Inexpensive décor: Mercari. Heavy or fragile: Facebook Marketplace, local.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as vintage on Etsy?

Items at least 20 years old. Newer secondhand items are not allowed in the vintage category, which is why many sellers list them on Mercari or eBay instead.

Is Etsy or eBay cheaper for vintage?

Etsy, at about 10.5% all-in against eBay's 13.6% + $0.40, unless the order came through an Etsy Offsite Ad (+15%). eBay earns its higher fee only where collectors search by maker.

How this page is computed

The table runs one realistic basket for this category through the fee schedule of each platform as held in our registry, where every schedule carries the official page it was read from and the date it was last checked; category-specific rates (eBay’s sneakers, electronics, clothing, books and guitars rates, StockX and Whatnot tiers, Grailed’s price bands) are applied where they change the result. Platforms not yet in the registry are discussed but not ranked. Rates move: the change log records each change and this table recomputes with it.