How it works
Buy for less. Sell for more.
OffMarketCards charges sellers 0% commission. Guests pay the Regular Price; members unlock the lower Member Price. We never add an OffMarketCards buyer fee at checkout. Shipping and applicable tax are separate.
The OMC Advantage
An illustration on a $100 card, using eBay’s own published fee schedule. Not a quote, and not anyone’s actual listing.
Elsewhere
- Buyer pays for the card
- $100.00
- Marketplace fees
- −$13.65
- Seller item proceeds
- $86.35
Here
- Regular Price
- $100.00
- Member Price
- $94.00
- Members save
- $6.00
- Seller commission
- $0.00
- Payment processing (assumed, see below)
- −$3.03
- Seller item proceeds
- $90.97
A member pays $6.00 less than the benchmark, and the seller’s item proceeds are $4.62 more than the same sale would have left them elsewhere, on the processing assumption stated below.
A guest buying the same card pays the $100.00 Regular Price. That is a displayed item price, not a price with an OMC fee added — the seller’s item price is $94.00 under either buyer type. The difference is what a membership is worth on one card, and it is ours rather than the seller’s.
This is how the OMC membership model is intended to work. None of it is live. The processing figure above is an assumption for the illustration — no payment processor is contracted, so no final seller payout can be stated. Today a listing shows the seller’s item price and says that third-party payment processing may apply. An estimated seller payout will be shown before publishing and at checkout once processing terms are configured. Buying is not open and member pricing is not active.
The eBay figures are an estimate. They apply eBay’s published selling fees (13.25% plus $0.40 an order, and 2.35% above $7,500.00), recorded from their public fee page on 2026-01-04. A real seller’s fees depend on their account, their category and their promotions, so we call this an estimate and never “your eBay price”.
Four numbers people mix up
They are different facts and we keep them apart everywhere.
- Market Value
- What this exact card, at this exact grade, has actually been selling for — from completed sales, never from what somebody is asking. It is a measurement, not a price you can buy at.
- The seller’s price
- What one seller has decided to take for their copy. They choose it. It can sit below Market Value, at it, or above it, and we show which without dressing it up.
- Regular Price
- The regular, displayed price of the item — what a buyer without a membership pays. A price, not a price with an OMC fee added on top. Shipping and applicable tax are shown separately.
- Member Price
- The preferred price a member buys at, and the same figure the seller chose for the item. A member saves the difference, and the seller is paid their amount either way.
What 0% does and does not cover
The promise is precise on purpose.
0% OMC seller commission means we take no cut of the item price — not from the buyer, not from the seller, at any card value. It does not mean a sale is free of every cost. Shipping is real, sales tax is set by where you live, and a payment processor charges to move money.
We have not contracted a payment processor yet, so we do not yet know what processing will cost. Until we do, a seller sees the item proceeds they chose and we say plainly that processing is still to be deducted. We would rather show you a gap than a plausible number we made up.
Shipping and tax sit outside every comparison on this page, in both directions. Comparing an item price against a total that includes postage would flatter us, which is the reason not to.
No separate OMC buyer fee. There are two prices for the item and a member buys at the lower one — so a guest is paying a price, not a price with something bolted on. A bill shows the item, shipping and applicable tax, and nothing else. When a guest buys, we keep the difference between the two prices, and the seller is paid exactly what a member would have paid them.
When a listing earns the badge
It is a calculation against a stored benchmark, not a label we hand out.
- Both sides have to win. A member must pay less than the benchmark and the seller must keep more than the same sale would have left them elsewhere. One without the other is not an advantage, it is a transfer.
- The benchmark has to be current. A seller’s own eBay ask counts for 7 days, because they can change it without telling us. Market Value counts for 120.
- A seller can price above the market, and still list. That listing simply does not carry the badge, and we show where it sits rather than pretending it is a deal.
- No benchmark, no claim. If we have nothing credible to compare against, we say so and show no comparison at all.