A daring and rather impressive idea for me. But when I see the transaction fee, I think our project is having a big problem.
SMS fees up to 6% of amount transactions, so if I trade $ 10k on SMS, I have to spend $ 60? It is really overwhelming and 1% fee in the app is also quite expensive. Do we have a way to reduce fee over time?
The answer is on our website exactly where you saw the fees:
The 6% fees is based on the transaction it will cost us to execute the SMS commands. If for example we have to send you 3 text messages (SMS) for a transaction and 1 SMS costs us 15 Cents like here in Ireland you can easily imagine the kind of fees we will have to cover.
If you read this from a small transaction perspective of 5$ transaction we are not even covering the expenses to send you the 3 sms. Also on our website It's clearly stated that fees will be adjusted according to the cost we have to face based on the service provider fees.
An other example is when you will request sms for 5 different reasons, wallet address, Balance, create wallet or Deposit coins which do not involve a transaction but yet we need to pay the sms fees to the service provider; the fees on sms becomes a tiny price for you to pay for a service that even the big exchanges or wallet names do not offer at all or even have on their roadmap.
Regarding the 1% transaction fee again every platforms have their transaction fees. Try to buy Bitcoins or Litecoins on Coinbase and you will see that their fees are way higher than 1%. When again we are offering you a service that no other big name wallets are offering I believe 1% on transactions is very fair.
We have plans to allow people to manage their fees in a better way. For example hold a minimum of a certain coin on your textwallet and you will not pay any textwallet fees for some platforms like Discord or telegrm (apart from sms which involves a direct cost) but only the coin's blockchain fee.
So it's up to people to realize the value we have here on offer and how the fees we planned are more than reasonable as compared to mainstream platforms.
Pay close attention to the fees coinbase charges on the post I shared below from this website :
https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/how-to/coinbase-101-fees-fine-print-you-need-know-before-trading-bitcoins-other-cryptocurrencies-0181630/You will see that TextWallet Fees can be considered as very reasonable.
We also have plans to cap the fees on TextWallet for example maximum fees on a transaction is $10. For now we have only 1% fee charged on transaction because we do not have SMS or other features activated yet.
If you are talking about 10K transaction with 6% fees costing you $600 not $60 nevertheless I invite you to go to your bank and try an international Fiat transfer of 10K and you will see what kind of fees they charge. They do not offer any social media integration or any relevant features that we have here but yet they charge close to 10%.
Again I repeat we have plans to cap the fees. We are not here to make millions at the expense of our users because if so I bet you we would not have any users.
For now we have only 1% fees on our network since we do not have SMS or Other platforms implemented yet, so you do not have much to worry for now about 6% fees.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to review & share your opinion about TextWallet
Regards
TextWallet Team.
Fees for Buying & Selling Cryptocurrencies
As far as fees go, Coinbase charges a small price for both buying and selling in a combination of both fixed and variable fees, depending on the total amount and method of payment or deposit. For smaller purchases and sales, the app charges a flat fee, regardless of whether you're using USD stored in your wallet, a bank account, or a credit/debit card. The fees for small transactions are:
$0.99 for buying and selling at $10.99 and below
$1.49 for buying and selling from $11.00 up to $26.49
$1.99 for buying and selling from $26.50 up to $51.99
$2.99 for buying and selling from $52.00 up to $78.05