In another controversial change, eBay has struck special deals with large merchants like Buy.com, which pays no listing fees and offers more than half a million products on eBay.com.com
How does Oodle plan to make money off of social classifieds where there are no listing fees?
The Nasdaq, charged by the SEC with operating the Bulletin Board, gets no listing fees from the companies there, as it does from its own listers.
Partsme.com has no listing fees, so you don't have to pay unless your item sells.
This also distinguishes Airbnb from sites such as VRBO.com (which stands for Vacation Rental By Owner), designed largely for guest and second homes.While VRBO.com and similar sites charge a listing fee, but no commission, Airbnb allows listings for free, and collects a commission on successful rentals, for which it handles all the financial transactions.
Cellular One can no longer list fees for air time it advertised as free and other terms of its contract for cell phone service in tiny print, under the terms of a settlement with New York State announced yesterday.
Unlike eBay, Amazon does not charge a listing fee for each item sold on the site.
(Most services accept listings from tenants at no charge, but some ask for a small fee. At Roommate Finders, for example, the listing fee is $25).
Blizzard says it will charge a flat listing fee for each auction rather than a percentage of the proceeds.
Even with the commission and listing fees, which are much higher than the 1.25percentto5percentcommissionssion and listing fee of 25 cents to $2 that eBay charges, most eBay broker users come out ahead, compared with what they would pay an offline consignment shop.
Mr. Beeferman, for instance, charges a listing fee of $5 per item, plus 20percentto40percentcent of the selling price.
