VULCAN20 wrote:

> Shawn Wilton wrote:
> 
>> Ebay charges a fortune.  And if you use Paypal, then they get a cut on
>> both sides as they own Paypal. 
> 
> WRONG  The buyer pays nothing to Ebay.  The seller pays a listing Fee, a
> percentage of his final sale price but not on the shipping fees and
> finally if the buyer pays with PAYPAL  they Take a service fee which is
> a percentage of the total money received.

Hey, does it matter (for the ones who do math) where the fees/taxes/etc
happen? In the end, what counts is what one pays and what the other gets --
and the difference is added cost. Where it happens doesn't really matter
(for the ones who do math :)

That's like the 3% credit card fee. Of course you can fool the people who
don't do math by making it illegal to charge that to the buyer, but the
ones who do math know that then the seller only will factor it into the
price. And by that possibly cheat on the cash payers. In the end, the
seller will get his price and the buyer will have to pay it all -- goods
and fees. Always.

Gerhard

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