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“Has TCGplayer’s fee rate moved?” is really two questions bundled together: what actually changed in TCGplayer’s policy, and what that’s costing your store specifically. Your assistant is strong on the second one and should be treated carefully on the first.

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Step 1: Ask about your own numbers

“How are my fees trending? Has my effective fee rate moved?”
This is a read, pulled from your own order and sales report history — the assistant can compare your total fees against your gross sales across recent periods and tell you whether the ratio has shifted.

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Step 2: Read the answer

Expect a comparison across periods: your fees as a percentage of gross sales last month versus, say, three months ago. If your effective rate moved, that’s real signal even before you know why — it might be a genuine TCGplayer fee change, a shift in your product mix, or more orders landing in a higher-fee category.

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Step 3: Get the policy context separately

Your assistant’s training may or may not reflect TCGplayer’s latest published fee schedule, so don’t take a confident-sounding claim about “TCGplayer raised fees to X%” at face value. For the actual policy background, check what changed in TCGplayer’s fees directly, then bring that back to your assistant if you want it to reconcile the policy change against your own numbers.

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Step 4: Go deeper on the sales side

If the fee question turns into “just show me the whole recap,” that’s the broader sales-summary task — see summarize your TCGplayer sales for revenue, order count, and net-after-fees over a period.