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I don't get why companies like this can charge a percentage equal to the credit card fee. If you pay 6% + $0.30 (on low ticket items, $0.30 could add additional few percent), but your margin is, let's say, 20%, you literally need to pay a third of your margin for processing. If you sell your old shoes or something that doesn't cost you anything but your time, then it's okay, but all these marketplaces literally are saying: "Low-volume low-margin merchants are not welcome!"

I noticed this too. Seems like the potential for a lot of angry customers, though if I remember correctly when it was spacebox it included stipe's fees in its pricing. Must have been too costly to attract customers.

Incredibly misleading. 0% equals 0% when 0% is actually 0%, not 2.9%.

They need some fine print since this is incredibly misleading. Don't want to do that to your first customers.