Real Money Auction House Fees Changed, Paypal Fees Revealed

Posted 2 May 2012 by Flux

Our very own Diablo3markets.com is reporting that the RMAH fees and Paypal Fees have been finalized and revealed. Paypal will charge a 15% fee on the transaction and the Blizzard transaction fee is now $1.00. For more details, visit the Diablo 3 Markets site!

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78 Opinions have been expressed on “Real Money Auction House Fees Changed, Paypal Fees Revealed”
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  • It is possible that Paypal will charge an additional fee, BUT I don’t think it will be on every transaction. For example, Paypal charges sellers a fee (the seller in this case is Blizzard, since they are sending you the money), hence why Blizzard charges the additional 15% on top. There might be other paypal fees that aren’t unique to Diablo 3, such as conversion fees, withdraw fees etc.

    • I think the 15% is blizxard and paypals cut for the transaction who get what dont matter. BTW from Paypal view your the Seller not Blizzard. Blizzards the buyer as they are sending you the cash, Cash flows from Buyer to Seller not the other way round.

  • Do we know what we can “buy” with out bnet balance (in regards to Blizz products)…..will i be able to but Heart of the Swarm, or the D3 expo….or will it be only trivial things like map packs etc??? 

  • 15% seems a bit excessive… 

  • The fees are not really relevant because you take these costs into account when selling an item. If you want $10 after costs you just list at $12.80. Every auction system (eg ebay) and most other externally listed sales (eg selling a house) work on the same principle. You take all fees into account when setting the price and don’t think about them.

    If there are any more costs down the line (from paypal for example) you just take those into account when selling too. Either way in the end you determine how much money you want to make from an item, and then add fee costs on top, and get what you want.

  • no wonder they aren’t doing subscriptions

  • this is insane. Etsy charges .20$+ 3.5% for a sale and paypal NORMALLY charges .30$ + 2.9% to handle money (Both percentages come from the original amount).  I sell something on etsy for 55$ and i see about 51$ of it.

    The developers must know that most transactions will be small which makes the 1$ static fee represent a large % of the value of each item (20% of 5$, 33% of 3$) and thats just blizzards cut. Paypal will probably take % off the difference but the 15% fee is still a lot larger than it normally charges… Also there is a micro transaction rate paypal offers which is 5%+.05$ (Still a lot less than D3′s rate)

    3rd party websites will still probably be more viable  

    source https://cms.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=merchant/merchant_fees 
    http://www.etsy.com/help/article/2144 

    TLDR: blizzard lied to us when it said “nominal fee” and Paypal is charging a lot more than it does for anything else, for Diablo 3 transactions.

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    TheDoc42
    May 2, 2012 at 05:40

    Still don’t plan on ever using the feature, so…

  • absurdly high fees.

  • Time for 3rd party transactions

  • Wow, double the fee? Crooks man. They are purposely cashing in on this sh*t. 3rd party here I come!

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