> ## Documentation Index
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# Ask your AI assistant about TCGplayer fee changes

> Ask your AI assistant about TCGplayer fee changes and get an answer grounded in your own orders, not a generic fee explainer.

"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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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](https://www.tryhoard.com/economics/fee-changes-2026) directly, then bring that back to your assistant if you want it to reconcile the policy change against your own numbers.

## 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](/how-to/ai-assistant/summarize-tcgplayer-sales) for revenue, order count, and net-after-fees over a period.

## Related reading

* [What changed in TCGplayer's fees](https://www.tryhoard.com/economics/fee-changes-2026)
* [The broader sales-recap task](/how-to/ai-assistant/summarize-tcgplayer-sales)