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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: anon0001 on August 21, 2012, 05:27 pm

Title: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: anon0001 on August 21, 2012, 05:27 pm
I'd really like to sell my product [great quality btw] at a good price but the fee is really a bump in the road. Can someone give me a good idea on how to start. Could work in about 2 weeks for the sign up fee but could ship the product in 2 days.
Title: Re: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: blowdrobro on August 21, 2012, 05:39 pm
If you have a quality product, and a good head for bis you can make as much as you want on SR, don't sweat the fee.
Title: Re: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: imports on August 21, 2012, 05:41 pm
If you can code a site like this and this secure along with having such a huge community and customer base then by all means please do but a 150$ fee or w/e it is now isn't that much for the opportunity to sell on this type of site.
Title: Re: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: Limetless on August 21, 2012, 05:47 pm
So you aren't just being cheap then and you don't just expect that DPR created SR just for the sheer bum-fluffery of it? Get real or GTFO.  ???
Title: Re: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: Errl_Kushman on August 21, 2012, 06:27 pm
I'd really like to sell my product [great quality btw] at a good price but the fee is really a bump in the road. Can someone give me a good idea on how to start. Could work in about 2 weeks for the sign up fee but could ship the product in 2 days.

Free samples usually help drum up business. Post those in the "Product Offers" section and provided you're good at what you do, you'll start to get a steady stream.

I think the vendor fee in part keeps the riff-raff out. If it was free, you'd have every tom, dick and harry trying to pawn their medicine closet (and getting busted in the process).
Title: Re: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: trollsquad on August 21, 2012, 07:16 pm
If you wanna vend for free thats what bmr is for but its full of scam on both users end's

Sr adds safety to both party's
Title: Re: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: TheAbsurd on August 21, 2012, 07:59 pm
In the real world you need to make investments if you're going to start a business. If you start your own website you would need to pay for a domain name, hosting, coding, maintenance, etc.

And like they said already, it helps keep the scammers out.
Title: Re: Why pay that fee to sell?
Post by: farmer1 on August 21, 2012, 08:22 pm
If it was free to make a vendor account this place would be full of people getting ripped off by fake sellers. Every vendor posting would be about 'mtgix' and the great deals there. SR would suck.

$150usd is incredibly cheap for the ability to utilize the tools we have been offered to conduct our business. Even a proper lemonade stand is going to cost $150 to get rolling.