Reselling News: eBay Raises Its Currency Conversion Charge October 14 and Amazon's Business Delivery Rule Is Live

Two changes on the board this month only touch part of the seller base, which is exactly why they slide past people. One takes a quarter of a point off money that crosses a border. The other can switch your offers off for an entire class of buyer, and the clock on it started two days ago.

eBay's currency conversion charge goes to 3.25 percent on October 14

eBay's own fee page now carries the line: from October 14, 2026, the seller currency conversion charge for sellers registered in the US increases to 3.25 percent, up from 3 percent.

It is worth being exact about what this is, because it gets mixed up with the international fee constantly. The conversion charge is not a tax on selling abroad. It is the slice eBay keeps when it actually converts currency for you. eBay builds its transaction exchange rate from a base rate plus a fixed percentage it retains, and that percentage is the number going up.

So if you list on eBay.com, get paid in dollars, and send overseas orders through eBay International Shipping, no conversion happens and October 14 does nothing to you. The fee in that lane is the separate 1.65 percent international fee, and eBay International Shipping waives that one. The sellers who feel this are the ones listing directly on another eBay site, eBay.de or eBay.co.uk or eBay.com.au, where fees get charged in that site's currency and proceeds come back in yours. eBay takes its cut on both legs of the trip.

Twenty five basis points is small, and anybody calling it a crisis is selling you something. The useful move is finding out which side of it you are on. Open your payouts and look for any line where the sale currency and your payout currency are not the same. If there are none, close the tab. If there are several a month, you have a cost center you have probably never priced, and the conversion charge is only one piece of it.

Amazon's 90 percent business hour rule is already running

A metric that has sat in seller accounts doing nothing since 2023 just grew teeth. As of September 30, Amazon requires a Business Hour Delivery Rate of 90 percent or higher on seller-fulfilled shipments. It measures the share of your packages to Amazon Business customers that arrive inside those customers' operating hours, over a rolling 14 day window.

Drop below the line and Amazon sends a notice with recommendations. Still be below it on October 30 and, in Amazon's wording, your seller-fulfilled offers may be deactivated for Amazon Business customers. FBA offers and ordinary retail offers are untouched.

What catches people is what counts as a miss. This is not on-time delivery wearing a new name. A package that lands early, on a Saturday, at a business open Monday through Friday is a failure by this metric even though the buyer got it ahead of schedule. Deliveries outside business hours count against you regardless of how fast they were.

Your number lives in Account Health under Program Eligibilities. Pull it today rather than on the 29th, because a 14 day rolling window needs roughly two weeks to turn around, and two weeks is the entire runway between now and the deadline. Amazon's own guidance points at ground services and automated handling time, which is fair advice, but make that call SKU by SKU instead of flipping the whole catalog.

TCGPlayer is between CEOs

Rob Bigler is out at TCGPlayer after three and a half years, leaving on October 1 to pursue something outside the eBay-owned card marketplace. No successor has been named.

If you move cards, file this and watch rather than react. Bigler's tenure covered the closure of the unionized Syracuse authentication center in 2025 and a long run of seller complaints about fees and competition. Leadership turnover is when fee structures and policies get reopened, in either direction. Nothing about your listings changes today.

The takeaway

Two of these three are only your problem if you are standing in the group they apply to. That is the real skill in reading a week of news: deciding in under a minute whether a change touches your inventory or somebody else's, then spending your morning on the one that does.

Sorting the noise from the thing that actually moves your margin is what we practice item by item inside The Income Lab.

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