Reselling News: eBay Live Fees Now Undercut Standard Selling, and a July 30 USPS Password Deadline

Two developments this week are worth ten minutes of your time. One is a rare chance to pay eBay less on a sale, and the other is a small account chore that can lock you out of shipping tools if you ignore it. Both are verified against reporting and a primary USPS notice, and both change something you do this week.

eBay Live now has a public rate card, and it undercuts standard selling

For the first time, eBay has published a generally available fee schedule for eBay Live, its livestream selling format, and the numbers are lower than what you pay on a normal listing. In most categories, an eBay Live sale is charged a combined 8.9 percent plus a fixed fee per order, built from a 6 percent commission and a 2.9 percent payment processing fee. Coins, bullion, and eligible sneakers get a combined 6.9 percent. eBay is also temporarily cutting the fixed per-order fee from 30 cents to 10 cents on Live orders of 10 dollars or less through December 31, 2026. The full breakdown is laid out by Value Added Resource.

Here is why that matters in plain terms. A standard non-Store sale on eBay runs about 13.6 percent in most categories. On eBay Live that same item is charged 8.9 percent, which is roughly 4.7 percentage points less on every dollar. The gap gets wider on higher-priced items, because the Live commission is capped at 100 dollars per item. A 5,000 dollar sale would be charged around 245 dollars on Live versus about 680 dollars under standard rates, per the same report.

The catch is access. eBay Live is still curated, so selling on it runs through an application and invitation process rather than being open to everyone. It also asks something different of you than a standard listing, since you are selling on camera in real time.

What to do: if you already have inventory that sells well on video, like trading cards, sneakers, coins, or collectibles, apply for eBay Live access and treat the lower fee as a reason to test it. If you are not there yet, file this away. The headline is that eBay is now competing on price with Whatnot for livestream sellers, and price competition between platforms almost always works in the seller's favor.

USPS wants your account password updated by July 30

The second item is a quiet one that can bite you at the worst time. USPS is rolling out new password requirements for USPS.com accounts, and they take effect July 30, 2026. If you use a USPS.com account to schedule carrier pickups, order free Priority and Ground Advantage supplies, or handle returns, this includes you. Starting that day, when you log in, USPS will prompt you to change your password if it does not meet the new standard, as reported by EcommerceBytes and confirmed in a USPS security notice.

The new rules are basic. Your password cannot match your username, it needs at least 8 characters, it must include one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, and one number, and it cannot have more than two of the same character in a row. None of that is hard, but a forced password reset in the middle of a shipping session is the kind of interruption that costs you a same-day scan when you are trying to get orders out.

What to do: log in to USPS.com before July 30, go to Account Preferences, and update your login credentials now so the change happens on your schedule rather than on a Monday morning with a stack of packages waiting. Two minutes today saves you a scramble later.

The takeaway

Look at whether your best inventory fits eBay Live, because the platform is now charging noticeably less than a standard listing, and reset your USPS.com password before the July 30 deadline so a security prompt never stands between you and getting orders out the door. Small moves, real money. We break down which platform fits which kind of inventory, and how to keep your shipping workflow tight, inside The Income Lab.