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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 328423, member: 5719&quot;]This news story link was posted on a non-coin discussion forum which is also covering this topic:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326686,00.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326686,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326686,00.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting data point: &quot;EBay makes 80 percent of its revenue from the top 20 percent of its sellers,&quot; sayeth News of Fox.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s your answer right there... some non-trivial fraction of the other 80 percent of sellers are not necessarily worth keeping, unless the amount of money that makes them worth keeping is extracted from them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That can be accomplished by, among other things, requiring Paypal for new sellers or (if I read this right) <i>established members who have sold fewer than 100 times</i>.&nbsp; Hello, little guy... that&#039;ll be 2.9% + 25 cents per listing <i>whether the buyer uses a credit card or not</i>-- which has always been my beef about the &quot;Premier Member&quot; sham.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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