Ebay/Paypal's ridiculous fees

[Daisy14]

This kind of reminded me of an article by Rick Falkvinge from a few months back: http://falkvinge.net/2014/01/25/the-toy-hungry-multimillionaire-market-thats-completely-underserved/. 

Anyway, wouldn't it be better to move this thread to another section? Perhaps "Project Development"?

 

No this is just right - economy. It's high time bitcoins came to the limelight and the fastest way to achieve this is to have online stores just like ebay where people can buy whatever.

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[Druze]

ebay and paypal fees are very annoying, and dont forget that you have to pay ebay 10% of your sales monthly

[Hemo]

ebay and paypal fees are very annoying, and dont forget that you have to pay ebay 10% of your sales monthly

and you need to pay 2.9% + $0.30 (in US) to PayPal...

[rizkyhiw]

that's why i hate paypal and ebay,people who know about bitcoin and money should leave paypal now,or they will keep upset with payment fees.
every transaction made must be have fees,and its suck for me,so far paypal and banks have biggest fees.

[knowhow]

Do you think the paypal fees sucks?Come to Brazil and you will know why they really suck and we dont like it ,they charge too much here,and i dont know why money is the same to all people,we can deposit our currencie and exchange to usd or eur and the fee will keep high as hell,i remember someone asking to exchange the paypal to another payment processor and begging ,he were from Brazil and he told me he would loose around 30% the ammount he had because the fees.

[Palinanv]

Actually, there fees are somewhat pretty decent. I don't think 3.5 percent is too much to pay, which the the percentage I had to pay when I was actually an eBay seller. It's fun and easy. A lot of the time you get buyers in just a day.

[Rune]

ebay is shit fee wise but that's where a lot of the traffic is

[knowhow]

Well i hope openbazar just get live and put ebay and paypal on their places with their fees,im not against ebay but paypal fees to Brazil are out of being realistic.

[quentincole32]

i never care about paypal or ebay,they are match couple,they have same treatment to bitcoin,they same to avoid bitcoin,its why i dont care them.
i just care about transaction fees,its why i need and use bitcoin.

[knowhow]

Well sure bitcoin is great against these two companies but would be great to see both colaborating between them,this would be one of the biggest steps around crypto world.

[AlexBits]

That's because they also want to make profit out of it. Because of the unstable price of the bitcoin
they can't give you the full amount of price. That's what they calculated for a possible lose of price.

[tzman]

That's because they also want to make profit out of it. Because of the unstable price of the bitcoin
they can't give you the full amount of price. That's what they calculated for a possible lose of price.

The fees for those who lives at some countries are out of imagination ,i remember a trade with a brazilian person for some penies around 5 dollars,the user got something like 3,80 dollars on those exchange ,why some countries has soo high fees?I my self made several exchanges with the same ammount i got 4.6 dollars or similiar ammounts,those companies taking too high fees for no reason besides thy provide a great service to the community.

[BombayChicken]

That's because they also want to make profit out of it. Because of the unstable price of the bitcoin
they can't give you the full amount of price. That's what they calculated for a possible lose of price.

The fees for those who lives at some countries are out of imagination ,i remember a trade with a brazilian person for some penies around 5 dollars,the user got something like 3,80 dollars on those exchange ,why some countries has soo high fees?I my self made several exchanges with the same ammount i got 4.6 dollars or similiar ammounts,those companies taking too high fees for no reason besides thy provide a great service to the community.

This is why they are doing it they must get some profit out of it. That's why the bitcoin is in this world so everybody can make profit with it. Don't think big company's wont do it.
With bitcoin it is different the fees are way less then with ANY other payment system.

[DuckKeeper]

Ebay and paypal are both companys who don't want to lose something with bitcoins. So they don't give you
everything so they cant lose everything. Bitcoin is a tricky because he can lose his price so don't blame them blame your
self for selling things for coins.

[BellaBitBit]

The fees are definitely insane.  I have faith that one of the decentralized marketplaces in the works is going to give Ebay a run for its money:  OpenBazaar, BitBay, or Syscoin.

[WarrEagle]

Sys coin is aiming to change all that. Their marketplace and fees are designed to take on ebay and paypal.

[romero121]

ebay is shit fee wise but that's where a lot of the traffic is

I have been using eBay for buying products from the international market for a long and have never been levied with a big fee. Also the traffic is found more on ebay because the service provided for international assistance is good.

[DuckKeeper]

they only got fees because there is not such a stable price for the bitcoin so they also need to put some fees on it. If they don't put that on it they can lose allot of money if the price drops very low you know. they cant now the price before that's why they are doing it.

[InsideBjorn]

Don't you know why they are doing this. They also need to get rich with it and the paypal does not give a nice percentage to ebay for what they need to earn. So that's why the fees are that high today. Don't buy something on ebay or don't say anything in here.

[Etaren]

Why do you think ebay and paypal has such a ridiculous fee not because they want you to pay. They also want to earn money also for big companys is just a couple of cents enough they also want more. So dont blame on them everybody wants to make money.