Differentiated by category. No buyer’s premium, no convenience fees, no FX markups. Payment processing passes through as a separate line at checkout — not absorbed into the take rate. Run the calculator for your transaction.
Committed rates for the $1,000–$10,000 band.
What you take home
Sale price $10,000 · after platform fee
Traditional auction house
~10% seller + ~$1,750 buyer premium
Major online marketplace
~12.9% final value + $0.30
Card marketplace
~10% seller fee + processing
SlapSwap figures are committed for the $1,000–$10,000 band; processing passes to the buyer at checkout (the settlement model — not yet live). Comparison figures are representative industry rates, not attributed to a named house.
The $1,000–$10,000 tier is committed and final. Lower percentages at higher tiers reflect lower marginal platform cost — not a discount for wealthy buyers. The other value bands are still being finalized and are marked as such below.
Designed to be unit-economic at scale while staying meaningfully lower than incumbents — whose buyer’s premiums and seller commissions commonly stack to 20%+.
Slabbed & graded cards
CGC, CBCS, PSA, BGS
Raw cards & comics
Ungraded singles, raw books
CGC / CBCS-graded comics
Slabbed books with verified cert
Original art & cels
Ink-on-board, production cels, manga genga
High-value over $100K
Premier-tier, white-glove eligible
Committed: the $1,000–$10,000 rates above, 0% buyer’s premium, and $0 listing fees. Under-$1,000 and $10,000+ bands are finalizing.
The committed rates above, read live from the database — the same rows the fee engine uses.
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Every item can be checked at our facility before money moves — we call it Listing Verification: we confirm the item matches the seller’s description. (We verify listings; we don’t authenticate.) Whether inspection is offered, required, and what it costs depends on the item’s value and whether it’s a purchase or a trade.
Lower edge inclusive: a $2,500 item is in the “$2,500 and up” tier; $2,499.99 is in the $60 tier; $999.99 is in the “under $1,000” tier.
Under $1,000
$1,000–$2,500
$2,500 and up
Under $1,000. Optional. We’re still finalizing pricing for this tier, so you’ll see it offered without a price for now — never a placeholder. Seller reputation, photos, and buyer protection do the work here.
$1,000–$2,500. Optional on a purchase, required on a trade. A flat $60 — and buyer and seller can split it however they agree.
$2,500 and up. Required, and we cover the fee. Nothing to add at checkout; it’s included.
At $10,000 and up, payment is by bank wire (card isn’t available); inspection is unchanged — required and covered.
The $60 fee, where it applies, is splittable: propose a split and the other side accepts before payment.
Optional premium-placement service levels layered on the capped transaction fee. The base fee still applies; the tier fee adds editorial, white-glove handling, or both.
Standard listing is always free regardless of value — these are opt-in service levels.
Classic
$99
Plus
$429
White Glove
$2,500
The negative space in a fee schedule matters as much as the positive. Here are the fees incumbent platforms layer on that this platform deliberately does not.
“Transparent fees” means nothing on its own. Transparency means showing the math, the schedule, and the explicit list of fees we declined to charge.
Buyer’s premiumThe auction-house convention layered on top of seller commission. We declined — buyer fees are 0%, no additional line item.
Convenience feesNo “marketplace fees” piled on top of the percentage. The percentage shown is the percentage charged.
Standard listing feesListing is free regardless of category or value. The tiered listing fees ($99 / $429 / $2,500) are optional service levels for items over $100K — and they’re launching.
Withdrawal feesCashing out from your seller balance is free — no platform deduction on the payout. (Settlement model; not yet live.)
Currency-conversion markupsCross-border (US ↔ Canada at launch) uses the payment processor’s published FX rate. No platform markup on the conversion.
Forced inspection on small itemsUnder $1,000, inspection is optional — never required and never auto-added. Sellers and buyers can choose it; the platform doesn’t impose it.
Specific scenarios the schedule doesn’t directly address — refunds, trade fees, cross-border, payout timing, and dispute-driven adjustments.
This will expand as real seller questions surface. The commitment is that ambiguity becomes documentation.
Full refund: the platform fee is refunded to the seller in full. Partial refund (e.g. from a dispute outcome): the platform fee is prorated to the kept portion of the sale. Payment-processing fees follow the processor’s standard refund policy.
Pure item-for-item trades: each side pays the platform fee on the assessed market value of the item they send out. Hybrid trades with a cash component: the party receiving cash pays the fee on the cash amount; both parties also pay the item fee on the assessed value of what they send.
US ↔ Canada at launch. The platform fee schedule is unchanged. Currency conversion uses the processor’s published FX rate with no platform markup. In the model, customs handling happens at the Dallas facility for items routing through inspection (see the inspection table above for which tiers route). Quebec residents see French-language disclosures in Q1 2027.
In the settlement model, payouts route directly to your linked bank — typically a couple of business days after settlement clears, with no platform float. Settlement is designed to clear at the end of the inspection-on-receipt window unless a dispute is filed. (Checkout/settlement isn’t live yet.)
Making offers, counter-offers, or (when they arrive) bids is free. The fee applies only at a completed sale or trade. Auctions are a later-phase feature; any auction-specific fees will be documented separately and follow the same transparent-schedule principle.
The model ties the fee to the outcome: a partial refund prorates the platform fee to the retained portion; a full refund refunds the fee in full; a trade unwind charges no platform fee. The full outcome ladder will be documented as the dispute flow ships.
The calculator runs your numbers in real time for the committed $1,000–$10,000 band. If the math works for you, list your first item.