Every Limited resale on Roblox carries a 30% marketplace fee, and the seller keeps 70% of the sale price. That one number drives all reseller math on the platform: to break even on a flip, you must resell for at least your purchase price divided by 0.7, roughly a 43% markup. On UGC Limited resales the same 30% is split two ways, with 10% going to the item's original creator and 20% to Roblox; Classic Limiteds are Roblox's own catalog items, so their resales have no creator split. Robux added to a trade is taxed at 30% too. This guide walks through every fee that touches a reseller, with the arithmetic spelled out.
How much does Roblox take when you resell a Limited?
Every resale on the Marketplace, Classic or UGC, carries the same total fee: 30% of the sale price, deducted from the seller's side. The buyer pays exactly the listed price, with no fee added on top. Where the 30% goes depends on the item type:
| Transaction | Total fee | Seller keeps | Who receives the fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classic Limited resale | 30% | 70% | Roblox (its own items — no creator split) |
| UGC Limited resale | 30% | 70% | 10% original creator, 20% Roblox |
| Robux included in a Classic trade | 30% | — (recipient gets 70%) | Roblox |
The math on a clean example: sell any Limited for 100,000 R$ and 70,000 R$ lands in your account. The other 30,000 R$ is gone (not held, not refundable), and the fee applies on every single resale, every time the item changes hands.
For a live one: Death Hellfire Outback Hat, a UGC Limited with 150 copies, had a resale floor of 40,000 R$ at the time of writing. A sale at that floor pays 28,000 R$ to the seller, 4,000 R$ to the item's creator, and 8,000 R$ to Roblox.
What price do you need to break even on a flip?
Your break-even list price is your total cost divided by 0.7. You only receive 70% of whatever you sell for, so:
Break-even list price = what you paid ÷ 0.7 ≈ 1.43 × what you paid
That is a 42.9% markup just to get your Robux back, before any profit. Reference table (round up to the next whole Robux, since your payout must reach at least your cost):
| You paid (R$) | Break-even list (R$) | Required markup |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | 1,429 | +42.9% |
| 5,000 | 7,143 | +42.9% |
| 10,000 | 14,286 | +42.9% |
| 25,000 | 35,715 | +42.9% |
| 50,000 | 71,429 | +42.9% |
| 100,000 | 142,858 | +42.9% |
Worked example with live items
Sword of the Seas, a Classic Limited, had both its RAP and its resale floor at 87,577 R$ at the time of writing. Buy that floor and your break-even list is 87,577 ÷ 0.7 = 125,110 R$. The item has to appreciate 43% before you make your first Robux.
The gap gets uglier when the floor already sits above RAP. The Death Hellfire Outback Hat's 40,000 R$ floor was about 15% above its 34,750 R$ RAP. Buy that floor and your break-even list of 57,143 R$ sits 64% above the item's current RAP. The bet stops being "this item will go up" and becomes "this item will go up 64% past what the market has recently paid." That is the whole logic behind sniping entries below RAP: a deep discount at entry is the only reliable way to pre-pay the fee.
Check the floor-to-RAP gap on the items leaderboard before any entry. When the floor already carries a fat premium over RAP, the 43% fee hurdle stacks on top of it. (Prices in this article are snapshots from our live database; the item pages always show current figures.)
How do fees work on UGC Limited resales?
Sellers keep 70% either way. The UGC split changes who collects the fee, not what you net. The 10% creator share means the original creator earns from every future resale of their item in perpetuity: each 40,000 R$ resale of the Death Hellfire Outback Hat pays its creator 4,000 R$ on copies they sold once, possibly years ago.
Two UGC-specific rules matter more for flip planning than the fee itself:
- Holding periods. Buy a UGC Limited at launch from the creator and it can be locked for up to 30 days before you can resell. Buy on the resale market and the hold is up to 7 days. Your capital is frozen the entire time.
- No trading. UGC Limiteds cannot be traded, since the Trade system supports Classic Limiteds only. A Marketplace resale, at a 30% fee, is the only way a UGC Limited changes hands. There is no fee-free exit.
The launch-flip pattern still clears the fee comfortably when it works: Christmas Top Hat, a 20-copy UGC Limited, launched at 300 R$ and its resale floor sat at 35,000 R$ at the time of writing. A launch buyer selling at that floor keeps 24,500 R$, and the fee barely dents an exit priced at more than 100 times entry. The full playbook, including why most launches never do this, is in the UGC Limiteds reselling guide.
Classic Limiteds run on their own clocks: a 7-day hold after buying on resale, and a 2-day hold after receiving an item in a trade.
What fees apply to trades?
Item-for-item Classic trades carry no marketplace fee. Trading is the only way to move Limited value on Roblox without paying 30%. Two caveats:
- Both accounts need an active subscription: Roblox Plus, or a grandfathered Roblox Premium (Premium stopped being sold on April 30, 2026, but existing subscribers keep trading access).
- The moment Robux enters the trade, the fee returns. Robux included in a trade is charged the 30% fee, and the amount you can include is capped at 50% of the value of the items on your side, with the cap applied to the post-fee amount.
Attach 20,000 R$ to a trade and your counterparty receives 14,000 R$. So when you evaluate an incoming offer, value any Robux on the other side at 70% of its face amount: "my 50,000 RAP item plus 10,000 R$ for your hat" is really the item plus 7,000 R$. With 100,000 R$ of items on your side, the most Robux you can attach is about 71,400 R$, which lands as just under 50,000 R$ on the other side. If trade mechanics are new to you, start with how to start trading Roblox Limiteds.
How do fees compound across multiple flips?
The 30% fee is charged on every sale, so it compounds against you across a flip sequence. Start with 100,000 R$ of capital and watch what different gross markups actually net:
| You buy at (R$) | You list at (R$) | Gross markup | You receive (R$) | Net result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100,000 | 120,000 | +20% | 84,000 | −16% |
| 100,000 | 143,000 | +43% | 100,100 | break-even |
| 100,000 | 150,000 | +50% | 105,000 | +5% |
| 100,000 | 200,000 | +100% | 140,000 | +40% |
A flip that looks like a healthy 20% markup is a 16% loss. Even a 50% markup nets just 5%.
Now chain it. Buy at 100,000 R$, sell at 150,000 R$, and you keep 105,000 R$. Reinvest all of it, sell that position at a 50% markup too (157,500 R$), and you keep 110,250 R$. After two winning flips at +50% gross each, your total profit is 10,250 R$. Roblox's fee take across those two sales: 45,000 + 47,250 = 92,250 R$. The house made nine times what you did on trades you won.
So high-frequency flipping at thin margins is a losing game on Roblox. The fee structure rewards fewer, deeper-discounted entries over volume. That is exactly what a deal feed is for. Snags surfaces listings priced far enough below market to clear the fee hurdle (it requires a signed-in account), and the Resell terminal tracks your open positions so you always know each one's true break-even, not just its floor.
Fee-aware pricing strategy
Rules that follow directly from the math:
- Price up from your break-even, not down from the floor. Your minimum viable list is cost ÷ 0.7. If the current floor is below that, you are not in an undercutting war. You are underwater, and the real decision is hold or realize the loss.
- Never pay more than 70% of your realistic exit price unless you are holding long-term on conviction rather than flipping.
- Mind RAP when you exit. RAP updates after every sale: New RAP = Old RAP + (Sale Price − Old RAP) ÷ 10. Panic-selling 30% under RAP knocks the item's RAP down 3% in a single sale. That matters if you hold multiple copies, because you are marking down your own remaining inventory. The formula is covered in depth in what RAP is and how it works.
- Count the clock as a cost. A 7-day resale hold means each unit of capital completes at most about four flip cycles a month, even if every sale were instant. Your markup per flip has to carry that dead time too.
None of this is financial advice. Limiteds are volatile, illiquid assets, and a fee-perfect entry can still lose to a demand shift. Size positions accordingly.
FAQ
Does the buyer pay a fee when purchasing a Limited?
No. The listed price is the full amount the buyer pays. The 30% marketplace fee comes out of the seller's proceeds: a 10,000 R$ purchase costs the buyer exactly 10,000 R$, and the seller receives 7,000 R$.
Are item-for-item trades charged the 30% fee?
No. Items swapped in a Classic Limited trade carry no marketplace fee, which makes clean item-for-item trades the only fee-free way to move Limited value on the platform. Only Robux included in a trade is charged 30%. Both accounts need an active Roblox Plus (or grandfathered Premium) subscription, and UGC Limiteds cannot be traded at all.
Is the fee different for UGC and Classic Limiteds?
The total is identical: 30%, with the seller keeping 70% in both cases. The difference is distribution: Classic Limiteds are Roblox-published items, so a Classic resale has no creator commission, while on a UGC resale 10% goes to the item's original creator and 20% to Roblox.
What is the minimum markup to profit on a flip?
Just under 43%. You receive 70% of the sale price, so profit requires selling above cost ÷ 0.7. An item bought at 10,000 R$ must sell above 14,286 R$ before you net a single Robux.
Can I reduce or avoid the marketplace fee?
No. The 30% fee is charged on every Marketplace resale, every time an item changes hands. The only fee-free way to move Limited value on the platform is an item-for-item Classic Limited trade with no Robux attached.