We pay fees to use ebay's/Paypal's service, NOT for protection. All businesses need to be able to suck up the costs of potential minor losses. We *do* get some coverage against actual credit card chargebacks, anyway. I've been involved in situations where someone used a stolen credit card to buy an item from me, the credit card holder does a chargeback, and Paypal eats the money, not me. Also, they protect well against Item Not Received disputes if tracking shows the item arrived.Originally Posted by Zthun
Yeah, but it's good for items you can just leave up for long periods of time and not worry about or pay monthly fees on. I have a few factory sealed vintage PC games that are impossibly rare, yet could not be in less demand. I can post them, put them back in storage and hope for the best someday. It's only worth selling on Amazon for very specific items.The only problem with Amazon is the hard fees. You have a 15% final value fee + 1.35 closing cost + .99 transaction fee. The fees are worse than ebay/paypal.
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