$1.25 RMAH item fee replaced with a 15% fee

[Enlil]

Hey People

You might of noticed in the RMAH in beta the fee is being displayed as 15% for a item, and a 15% fee does come of the item when sold "I tested it".

Looks like blizzard whats a bigger cut of the sales "on items that sell for a decent amount"
It makes sense from them to do it this way as a % fee on the sale of a $100 item gives them far more profit than a flat fee.

There is no official word on this yet, but perhaps it will carry over to release.

What do you think ?

[Eagle]

Hopefully. The flat fee would have killed the RMAH for low value trading which would be silly, imo.

[Enlil]

This is good news, I wounder if they will scrap the minimum listing price if they are going with the 15 % fee now.

[Azzure]

Listing commodities and gold is 15%. It has always been like this. When you tested it, did you try to sell equipment, or a commodity?

Unless equipment is now also reading 15%? Can someone check this, I'm at work.

Nevermind, confirmed to be right!

[Enlil]

Listing commodities and gold is 15%. It has always been like this. When you tested it, did you try to sell equipment, or a commodity?

Unless equipment is now also reading 15%? Can someone check this, I'm at work.

Nevermind, confirmed to be right!

Yes, thats what I'm saying items are now 15 % same as commodities.

[Coolhwip]

Trying to check this, but servers are down due to the "hotfix" they applied earlier.

[snowcatcher]

Omg, 15% is huge ffs, no company/institution takes such a great fee for any service...

[skien]

now THIS could kill the RM economy. I don't even know if I'd use it if the cut is that high, and I've been excited about this for months.

[GamingBinary]

Its pretty logical from a bussiness point of view, and for your average joe wanting to sell that nice drop he got for abit of side cash, the only way to do it. If they don't setup the fees to increase proportional with the trading, what is to stop some hedge fund coming in and throwing a couple hundred thousand at this?

[Cid]

i think 15% is too much for high value sales, it is fine to charge 15% up 30$ and then decrease the fee the higher the value gets, but thats just my opinion.

if they keep 15% fee, independant of sellvalue, and paypal charges another 15% for chashout i wouldn't be surprised if the best and most expensive items are sold via 3rd party sites.