Crosslist from Cardmarket to eBay — Sell the Cards a Catalogue Cannot Describe
Graded slabs, misprints, signed cards and sealed product have no Cardmarket catalogue entry. On eBay you write the listing yourself. Here is what changes, and what it costs.
- Best fit: graded slabs, sealed product, misprints, altered art and anything else Cardmarket‘s catalogue has no entry for.
- The big change: on Cardmarket you pick a card from a price list. On eBay you write the title, take the photos and set the terms yourself.
- Reach: Cardmarket sells to buyers in over 30 countries, almost all of them European. eBay reported 136 million active buyers worldwide in Q2 2026.
- Sale sync runs one way. FLUF sees an eBay sale. It does not see a Cardmarket sale, so you mark those sold in FLUF and it ends the eBay listing.
- Cost: 7 days for £1, then from £9/month. Starter covers this pair.
A price list against a shop window
Cardmarket runs on a fixed catalogue. You search for the card, choose the set, the language and a condition from its seven-step scale, and your copy drops into a list sorted by price. The buyer compares your €4.20 against somebody else’s €4.15. Your description does almost nothing.
eBay has no such catalogue for cards. You write the title, you upload the photos, you decide whether it runs as an auction or at a fixed price. That is more work per item and it is also the whole reason to be there.
The practical test is simple. If Cardmarket already has a catalogue entry for your card and you are one of forty sellers listing it, eBay adds little. If Cardmarket has no entry, or the entry cannot express what makes your copy special, eBay is where that item can be described properly.
The stock that gains the most
- Graded cards. A PSA 9 and a PSA 10 are different items with different prices. A catalogue row that only knows Near Mint cannot say that. On eBay the grade goes in the title.
- Misprints, miscuts and altered art. These have no catalogue entry anywhere. eBay handles them because eBay listings are free text.
- Sealed product and bundles. A booster box, a collector’s tin or a bundle you built yourself sells on the photo and the description.
- Signed cards and one-off lots. Same reasoning. Nothing about them fits a price-sorted list.
Bulk singles are the other way round. Cardmarket exists for them and eBay’s per-order fees make a €3 card barely worth posting.
Photographs become the listing
Cardmarket only asks for a photo once a listing passes about €100. Below that the catalogue image stands in for yours, which is why plenty of Cardmarket sellers have never photographed their stock at all.
On eBay there is no catalogue image to borrow. Every listing needs your own photographs, front and back, in daylight, with the corners and edges visible. Budget for that before you plan a large batch. It is usually the step that slows a first crosslist down.
Carry your condition grade across as well. Buyers on eBay do not read Cardmarket’s letters, so write it out: put “Near Mint” in the title rather than “NM”, and say what the card looks like in the description.
What each one takes
Cardmarket charges 5% to a private seller and 3% to a professional seller, with a €100 ceiling on any one article. There is no listing fee and no monthly fee.
eBay’s rates depend on which country site you sell from, so check the fee page for your own site before you price anything. On eBay UK, a business seller pays a final value fee of 5% to 14.9% depending on category, a per-order fee of £0.30 below £10 and £0.40 above it, and a regulatory operating fee of 0.35% on the total sale, all plus VAT. A private seller on eBay UK pays no selling fees at all in most categories, a position eBay UK moved to in October 2024.
| Cardmarket | eBay UK | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission | 5% private, 3% professional, capped at €100 per article | 0% for a private seller; 5% to 14.9% by category for a business seller |
| Per-order fee | None | Business seller: £0.30 up to £10, £0.40 above |
| Regulatory fee | None | Business seller: 0.35% of the total sale |
| Listing fee | None | Free allowance, then an insertion fee |
| Auctions | No | Yes |
That private-seller line is the one worth sitting with. A UK hobbyist thinning a collection can run eBay alongside Cardmarket and pay eBay nothing on the sale, while Cardmarket still takes its 5%. If you sell as a business the maths flips, and Cardmarket is the cheaper of the two on most cards.
Tax and identity checks
Cardmarket asks for a VAT number from German professionals before they can trade at all, and from other EU professionals who want to sell outside their own country. It also reports sellers who pass 30 transactions or €2,000 in a calendar year, the same EU-wide threshold eBay reports against. Crosslisting splits your sales across two platforms but it does not split that threshold, because each platform counts its own.
From January 2026 Cardmarket has also collected VAT on professional-to-private imports within the EU. If you sell professionally across a border, price with that in mind.
What FLUF Connect does for this pair
| Cardmarket | eBay | |
|---|---|---|
| Crosslist listings | Yes | Yes |
| FLUF detects a sale here | No | Yes |
| FLUF ends the listing here when the item sells elsewhere | No | Yes |
| Relisting and offer management | No | Yes |
| FLUF browser extension | Needed to connect | Not needed |
When it sells on eBay: FLUF records the sale and ends the listing on your other channels. Cardmarket is the exception, so remove that copy yourself.
When it sells on Cardmarket: open the item in FLUF and mark it sold, and FLUF ends the eBay listing.
eBay is one of the channels where FLUF can also relist an item that has sat unsold and handle offers on your behalf. Those two are on the plans above Starter.
How to crosslist from Cardmarket to eBay
- Connect Cardmarket. Install the FLUF browser extension, sign in to Cardmarket, then add Cardmarket from Channels in FLUF. Your listings come in.
- Connect eBay from the same screen and sign in when eBay asks. No extension needed on that side.
- Select the stock that gains from free text. Graded, sealed, signed, odd. Skip the bulk.
- Photograph it. Front and back, daylight, corners visible. This is the real work.
- Rewrite the titles. Card name, set, number, language, grade. Say it the way a buyer would search for it.
- Crosslist a handful first, watch what they do for a fortnight, then use bulk operations for the rest.
What FLUF Connect costs for this pair
7 days for £1, then from £9/month. Starter gives you unlimited listings, crosslisting, inventory sync, order sync and bulk operations. Relisting, offer management and smart pricing, all of which eBay supports, come with the plans above Starter.
| Plan | Monthly | Crosslisted products |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | £9/month | Unlimited |
| Seller | £29/month | Unlimited |
| Pro | £99/month | Unlimited |
| Super Seller | Custom pricing — tell us what you need | Unlimited |
Sources
- Cardmarket: professional seller guide
- Cardmarket: card condition scale
- Cardmarket: tax requirements
- Cardmarket: VAT on professional-to-private imports
- CardPulse: Cardmarket fee guide 2026
- eBay UK: business seller fees
- eBay UK: private seller fees
- eBay Inc: Q2 2026 investor fast facts
Sources checked September 2026.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Because Cardmarket's catalogue cannot describe everything. A graded slab, a misprint, an altered-art card, a signed copy or a bundle you made yourself has no catalogue entry to join. On eBay you write the listing, so those items can be sold properly.
For eBay, yes, every time. Cardmarket only asks for a photo above about €100 and shows a catalogue image below that, so many Cardmarket sellers have never photographed their stock. Front and back, in daylight, corners visible.
They do not, so spell them out. Cardmarket buyers read MT, NM, EX, GD, LP, PL and PO. eBay buyers do not. Write “Near Mint” in the title and describe the corners and edges in the body.
It depends what kind of seller you are. Cardmarket takes 5% from a private seller and 3% from a professional one. eBay UK charges private sellers nothing in most categories, so a hobbyist pays eBay less than Cardmarket. A business seller on eBay UK pays 5% to 14.9% by category plus a per-order fee and a 0.35% regulatory fee, which is usually more than Cardmarket.
No. Cardmarket reports a seller who passes 30 transactions or €2,000 in a calendar year, and eBay reports against the same EU threshold. Each platform counts only its own sales, so splitting your stock does not reset either count.
FLUF does not see Cardmarket orders. Open the item in FLUF, mark it sold, and FLUF ends the eBay listing for you.
FLUF records the eBay sale and ends your listings on the channels it can reach. Cardmarket is not one of them, so take that copy down yourself.
Yes, on eBay. Relisting, offer management and smart pricing run on the plans above the £9 Starter tier. Cardmarket does not support any of the three.