Yahoo! Auctions Japan in 9 slides
Auction or fixed-price sell on Japan biggest auction platform.
- Classifieds marketplace
- Marketplaces
- Based in Tokyo, Japan
What you do on Yahoo! Auctions Japan
How the money is made: selling products
- List your items
- A buyer orders
- Ship it
- Payout after delivery
Auction or fixed-price sell on Japan biggest auction platform.
Founded 1999 · next to 73 other marketplaces
Work and topics
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What Yahoo! Auctions Japan takes
Guess first: how much of every $100 you earn does Yahoo! Auctions Japan take?
10% final value fee (flat since June 2024)
From the published fees, before payment-processing, currency or withdrawal charges. Work out your own amount →
How the money reaches you
From sign-up to payout
- Sign up
- Do the work
- Earnings clearYahoo holds the payment and pays the seller when the buyer confirms receipt
- Withdraw2 ways to withdraw
2 ways to withdraw
- PayPay
- Bank transfer
What people actually earn
In its June 2024 announcement, the company says the seller success fee became 10% of the winning bid including tax from June 4, with exceptions for specified ca…
Source: auctions.yahoo.co.jp ↗How it scores
Strong on fees and track record. Weaker on getting paid.
- Fees4.5
- Getting paid2.3
- Access2.5
- Track record4.5
- Proof of earnings2.5
- Clear fees
- Low cut
- Top 10K website
- 10 years running
- 20 years running
Yahoo! Auctions Japan against its peers
Guess: next to the 23 other marketplaces that charge a percentage, is Yahoo! Auctions Japan…
The cut of all 24 marketplaces that charge a percentage
| Platform | Fee |
|---|---|
| OLX | 1% |
| Joongna | 1% |
| Ruten | 2.5% |
| Bunjang | 4.8% |
| Tindie | 5% |
| Yahoo! Fleamarket | 5% |
| Jimoty | 5% |
| Folksy | 6% |
| Allegro Lokalnie | 6.4% |
| Rakuma | 7.3% |
| Reverb | 8.2% |
| Discogs | 9% |
| Etsy | 9.5% |
| Yahoo! Auctions Japan | 10% |
| Mercari | 10% |
| Ricardo | 10% |
| Grailed | 11% |
| StockX | 11% |
| GOAT | 12.4% |
| Vestiaire Collective | 15% |
| Dolap | 15% |
| Enjoei | 15% |
| Pinkoi | 15% |
| Poshmark | 20% |
- At 10%, Yahoo! Auctions Japan sits near the middle — the median fee across the 24 marketplaces we track that charge a percentage is 9.3%.
- Yahoo! Auctions Japan is the only one of the 74 marketplaces we track that pays out via PayPay.
- Founded in 1999, Yahoo! Auctions Japan has been running for about 27 years — longer than 68 of the 75 marketplaces we track with a known launch year.
How much we know
We have 8 of the 17 things we track for every platform. Fees, payouts, join rules, countries and real earnings count most.
What we have
- What kind of platform it is
- Year founded
- Headquarters
- Fees
- How fast you get paid
- Withdrawal methods
- Countries it accepts
- Real earnings figures
Still missing
- Plain-English overview
- Minimum payout
- Payment protection
- Join requirements
- Review ratings
- Wikipedia or reference page
- Support channels
- Mobile apps
- Social accounts