When trading in EAFC, one of the most important things to understand is EA's 5% transfer market tax. Whenever you successfully sell a card, EA takes 5% of the sale price, meaning you actually receive 95% of what the card sold for.
This matters because a trade can look profitable at first, but after tax you could actually make very little profit — or even lose coins.
Understanding EA tax
Working out tax is simple: take the price you're selling the card for and multiply it by 0.95. That tells you how many coins you will actually receive.
For example, if you sell a card for 100,000 coins, EA takes 5,000 and you receive 95,000. If you originally bought that card for 90,000, your actual profit is only 5,000 coins — not the 10,000 difference between your buy and sell price.
Sale price × 0.95 = actual coins gained. Coins received − buy price = actual profit.
Understanding margins
Your margin is the difference between the price you're buying at and the price you're expecting to sell at. When looking at a potential trade, always make sure the margin is large enough to cover EA tax and still leave you with worthwhile profit.
Buying a card for 95,000 and selling for 100,000 might look like a 5,000 coin profit. However, after the 5% tax you only receive 95,000 coins — meaning you've actually made zero. Buying at 90,000 and selling at 100,000 would instead return 95,000 after tax, giving you a real profit of 5,000.
What is a trade really worth?
Don't only look at how many coins you could make — think about how much you're risking to make them. Making 5,000 coins from a 20,000 coin investment is very different from making 5,000 coins from a 500,000 coin investment. The first is a 25% return before tax; the second is only 1%, and wouldn't even cover EA's selling tax at that sale price.
This is why percentage return can be just as important as the raw number of coins. Putting 500,000 coins into a risky card to potentially make 5,000 probably isn't worth it when those coins could be used elsewhere for a better margin.
The bigger the card, the bigger the tax. Always calculate the trade before buying, rather than just looking at the difference between buy and sell price.
The main rule
Before making a trade, ask yourself three things: how much am I buying for, how much can I realistically sell for, and how much will I actually make after tax?
A card going up in price doesn't automatically mean you've made a good trade.
Buy price → expected sale price → remove 5% tax → calculate real profit → decide if it's worth it.
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