Final Fee structure

**galzohar** · 03-05-2012, 13:18

But... It's a windforce!!!

Anyway, as riptide has said, it's not hard to compete with the RMAH in prices when you don't have to pay ridiculous Blizzard fees. What's hard is getting people to find your items (which they will find if they really want to, but won't find if the price difference won't be enough for them to bother with it) and trust you to actually sell them the items rather than take their money and bail.

You guys are forgetting that lower fees aren't just good for sellers. They're good for buyers, too, because in a competitive market sellers will lower their prices when the fees are lower in order to compete with other sellers that are doing the same.

**glasspinne** · 03-05-2012, 15:00

The fee isn't the problem, 15% is actually pretty good. The real problem is $250 cap, it will have more implications than you could imagine on other items worth as well. Forcing people to auction those off in the gold auction house and then selling the gold also sucks. I hope there will be something equal to SoJ in d2 that will become standardized trade currency. Then you can at least trade away your item for X of those and then sell those.

**ShadoutMapes** · 03-05-2012, 15:07

Gems maybe. If they become as expensive to get as it seems like.
Also easy to store them in high quantities.

The demand for gems might not be very impressive though, if it is true that you cant socket every item anymore.

**Horcsog** · 03-05-2012, 15:42

Originally Posted by Eagle

An item?

$250 - $1 fee = $249
If your sending the money to your B.Net balance then you'll have $249.00 in there.

If your sending the money to Paypal:
$249 - 15%
$249 - ($249 * 0.15)
$249 - $37.35 = $211.65 going into Paypal.

Yes, thank you, and how much for transferring the amount I have on Paypal to my credit card? I think that's again like 15%? :S

**glasspinne** · 03-05-2012, 15:48

Originally Posted by Horcsog

Yes, thank you, and how much for transferring the amount I have on Paypal to my credit card? I think that's again like 15%? :S

No, that fee is negligible

**Horcsog** · 03-05-2012, 15:53

Originally Posted by glasspinne

No, that fee is negligible

Oh, awesome, so just taxes then which is yet again an extra cut.

1$ off when I sell an item,
15% for transferring the money I get from the AH to my PayPal,
a very small fee for transferring the the money from my Paypal to my cc,
about 15% tax

anything else?

**ShadoutMapes** · 03-05-2012, 16:13

You are not allowed to complain about 15% tax!
*mumble39%mumble*.

**THGlump** · 03-05-2012, 16:47

Originally Posted by galzohar

You guys are forgetting that lower fees aren't just good for sellers. They're good for buyers, too, because in a competitive market sellers will lower their prices when the fees are lower in order to compete with other sellers that are doing the same.

But they will have competition that will lover prices. All that players who dont care about withdrawing money, can put price lower because they dont have any paypal fee. Not everyone see RMAH as a way to get easy money.

For me money on RMAH is just another INGAME currency. I have no intention to link paypal to battle.net, and dont plan to put any money in or take them out. Just another ingame currency. In that way i will still prefer RMAH because i actually get LOWER fees there, than at GAH. So you will have to price complete with me and others who will use RMAH same way. So good luck with trying to draw buyers to somewhere else, and build your reputation as a trustworthy seller. It will be hard.

**galzohar** · 03-05-2012, 20:35

I never said it would be easy. But the bigger the price difference, the more it will be worth the effort. For 15% fee, only the most expensive items might be worth it, and 99.99% of the players will really not care about using 3rd party as whatever you can save simply won't be worth it.

**kkmo** · 04-05-2012, 07:59

Originally Posted by riptide

I'll sell you that same item for $234.99 if you're a repeat customer I'll take off 5.00 on your 2nd purchase. For every 5 people that you refer to me and spend over 50.00 I'll give you 5.00 off. If they spend more than 100.00 I'll give you 15.00 off. For every single person that spends 500.00 or more in a single purchase I'll give you X gold or $

It won't be hard to entice people to purchase outside of the RMAH. The hardest part is showing people you won't rip them off, so you don't have to keep using a middleman. Which is quite an inconvenience.

Your argument actually convince me that Blizzard is providing a good service for a small fee.

Instead of doing all these extra works I can spend the time playing more.