Every Limited resale on Roblox carries a marketplace fee, but the size of that fee depends entirely on the item type, and this is where most reseller math goes wrong. On a Classic Limited resale the seller keeps 70%. On a UGC Limited resale the reseller keeps just 50%. That one difference doubles the hurdle: a Classic flip needs roughly a 1.43x resale to get your Robux back, a UGC flip needs a clean 2x. Robux added to a trade is charged 30%. 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?
The fee comes out of the seller's side. The buyer pays exactly the listed price, with no fee added on top. What differs is how that price gets split:
| Transaction | Seller keeps | How the rest is split |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Limited resale | 70% | 30% to Roblox (its own items, no creator share) |
| UGC Limited resale | 50% | 10% original creator, 10% seller/affiliate, 30% Roblox |
| UGC Limited primary sale, from the creator | n/a | 30% creator, 40% seller/affiliate, 30% Roblox |
| Robux included in a Classic trade | recipient gets 70% | 30% to Roblox |
Sell a Classic Limited for 100,000 R$ and 70,000 R$ lands in your account. Sell a UGC Limited at the same price and you receive 50,000 R$. The fee applies on every single resale, every time the item changes hands.
For a live one: Death Hellfire Outback Hat, a UGC Limited with 150 copies, had a resale floor of 40,000 R$ at the time of writing. A sale at that floor pays 20,000 R$ to the reseller, 4,000 R$ to the item's original creator, 4,000 R$ to the seller/affiliate, and 12,000 R$ to Roblox.
What price do you need to break even on a flip?
Two formulas, because there are two fees:
Classic Limited: break-even list = cost / 0.7 = 1.43x cost (+43%)
UGC Limited: break-even list = cost / 0.5 = 2.00x cost (+100%)
Reference table (round up to the next whole Robux, since your payout must reach at least your cost):
| You paid (R$) | Classic break-even (R$) | UGC break-even (R$) |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | 1,429 | 2,000 |
| 5,000 | 7,143 | 10,000 |
| 10,000 | 14,286 | 20,000 |
| 25,000 | 35,715 | 50,000 |
| 50,000 | 71,429 | 100,000 |
| 100,000 | 142,858 | 200,000 |
Worked example with live items
Sword of the Seas, a Classic Limited, had both its RAP and its resale floor at 87,577 R$ at the time of writing. Buy that floor and your break-even list is 87,577 / 0.7 = 125,110 R$. The item has to appreciate 43% before you make your first Robux.
The UGC side is harsher. The Death Hellfire Outback Hat's 40,000 R$ floor was about 15% above its 34,750 R$ RAP. Buy that floor and your break-even list is 80,000 R$, which sits 130% above the item's current RAP. The bet stops being "this item will go up" and becomes "this item will more than double past what the market has recently paid." That is the whole logic behind sniping entries below RAP: a deep discount at entry is the only reliable way to pre-pay the fee.
Check the floor-to-RAP gap on the items leaderboard before any entry. When the floor already carries a fat premium over RAP, the fee hurdle stacks on top of it. (Prices in this article are snapshots from our live database; the item pages always show current figures.)
How do fees work on UGC Limited resales?
A UGC resale splits four ways: 50% to the reseller, 10% to the original creator, 10% to the seller/affiliate, and 30% to Roblox. The 10% creator share means the original creator earns from every future resale of their item in perpetuity: each 40,000 R$ 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 alongside the fee:
- 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, paying the reseller 50%, 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 17,500 R$, and even a 50% cut barely registers against an exit priced at more than 100 times entry. The full playbook, including why most launches never do this, is in the UGC Limiteds reselling guide.
Classic Limiteds run on their own clocks: a 7-day hold after buying on resale, and a 2-day hold after receiving an item in a trade.
What fees apply to trades?
Item-for-item Classic trades carry no marketplace fee at all. Trading is the only way to move Limited value on Roblox without paying one. Two caveats:
- Both accounts need an active subscription: Roblox Plus, or a grandfathered Roblox Premium (Premium stopped being sold on April 30, 2026, but existing subscribers keep trading access).
- The moment Robux enters the trade, a fee returns. Robux included in a trade is charged 30%, and the amount you can include is capped at 50% of the value of the items on your side, with the cap applied to the post-fee amount.
Attach 20,000 R$ 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, and for which approach actually earns more see reselling vs trading.
How do fees compound across multiple flips?
The fee is charged on every sale, so it compounds against you across a flip sequence. Classic Limiteds first, starting with 100,000 R$ of capital:
| You buy at (R$) | You list at (R$) | Gross markup | You receive (R$) | Net result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100,000 | 120,000 | +20% | 84,000 | -16% |
| 100,000 | 143,000 | +43% | 100,100 | break-even |
| 100,000 | 150,000 | +50% | 105,000 | +5% |
| 100,000 | 200,000 | +100% | 140,000 | +40% |
A Classic flip that looks like a healthy 20% markup is a 16% loss. Even a 50% markup nets just 5%.
UGC shifts the whole table down, because you receive half rather than 70%:
| You buy at (R$) | You list at (R$) | Gross markup | You receive (R$) | Net result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100,000 | 150,000 | +50% | 75,000 | -25% |
| 100,000 | 200,000 | +100% | 100,000 | break-even |
| 100,000 | 300,000 | +200% | 150,000 | +50% |
Now chain it. Buy a Classic 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, and it is worse on UGC than on classics. The fee structure rewards fewer, deeper-discounted entries over volume. That is exactly what a deal feed is for. Deals 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.
Can you lower the fee on the buy side?
You cannot change the fee percentage, but you can cut what the entry actually costs you, which moves the break-even in exactly the same way.
When an avatar item is bought inside an experience, through the inspect-and-buy menu or a MarketplaceService prompt, Roblox pays an affiliate commission to the owner of that experience. On a primary sale of a UGC Limited, meaning a purchase from the creator at launch, that share is 40%. Buy a launch inside an experience you own and 40% comes back, dropping the UGC break-even from 2x to 1.2x. On a resale the affiliate share is only 10%, so the same move takes break-even from 2x to about 1.8x.
Roblox Plus stacks on top for primary purchases: 10% off for a subscriber's first two months, rising to 20% from the third consecutive month, with commissions still calculated on the original price. Combine both on a launch buy and the break-even lands at 0.8x, below the launch price itself. Roblox excludes items priced above 1,000,000 Robux and resale purchases from the discount. The full breakdown sits in reselling vs trading Roblox Limiteds.
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 on a Classic and cost / 0.5 on a UGC Limited. 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 on a Classic, or 50% on a UGC Limited, 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 marketplace fee comes out of the seller's proceeds: a 10,000 R$ purchase costs the buyer exactly 10,000 R$, and the seller receives 7,000 R$ on a Classic Limited or 5,000 R$ on a UGC Limited.
Is the fee different for UGC and Classic Limiteds?
Yes, and the gap is wide. A Classic Limited resale leaves the seller 70% of the sale price, with the other 30% going to Roblox. A UGC Limited resale leaves the reseller only 50%, with 10% to the original creator, 10% to the seller/affiliate, and 30% to Roblox. Anyone quoting a flat 30% fee on both is using the Classic number for everything.
Are item-for-item trades charged a 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.
What is the minimum markup to profit on a flip?
Just under 43% on a Classic Limited, since you receive 70% of the sale price and profit requires selling above cost / 0.7. On a UGC Limited it is 100%, because you receive only half: an item bought at 10,000 R$ has to sell above 20,000 R$ before you net a single Robux.
Can I reduce or avoid the marketplace fee?
You cannot reduce the percentage itself, but you can cut what the entry costs. Buying a UGC Limited at launch inside an experience you own returns the 40% affiliate commission, and a Roblox Plus discount of up to 20% stacks on primary purchases, which together can pull the break-even below the launch price. The only genuinely fee-free way to move Limited value is an item-for-item Classic Limited trade with no Robux attached.