Well they haven't talked about the 3rd party they'll be using, likely paypal though, when asked Jay said it was in negotiations. As far as a fee, They want to make it literally as small as they can without crippling themselves and still being able to pay the transaction costs. Jay Wilson specifically stated this is why it will be a flat fee and not a percentage based fee. Say they charge 10 cents on a 10 dollar item. That's a lot less than a 10% charge. Especially if you find some ridiculous item someone will pay 40$ for or something.
Well the charges are going to add up. There's a charge to post the item, charge when it sells and lastly a charge if you want to send it to your Paypal.
Last I heard there is a posting charge, and then a charge if you want to cash it into real money.
Most of these are basic fees not so different than when you use another banks ATM or something similar.
I assure you they aren't out to rob you blind, if they were they'd have made it percentage based. Besides if it costs 5$ to even post any item up, you think nearly anyone is going to use the RMAH?
A nominal fixed transaction fee will be deducted from the seller for each item listed in the auction house. This fee consists of a fixed charge to list the item, which is assessed whether or not the item is successfully sold, and an additional fixed charge that is assessed only if the item is sold. Because the listing portion of the fee is charged even if the item doesn’t sell, it will be in the seller’s interest to list items he or she believes other players will be interested in, and to do so at a competitive price. Specific details related to the transaction fee for the currency-based auction house will vary by region and will be announced at a later date.
Please note that we plan to waive the listing portion of the fee for a limited number of transactions per account. In other words, for these transactions, the seller will only pay a transaction fee if the item is successfully sold, and that fee will not include the listing charge. We’ll have further details on this as well at a later date."
I hope they aren't because i'm looking forward to making money from this game.
I think Force mentioned that there will be 3 fees. One at post, one when sold and if you want $, the 3rd party will charge you a third time. The third one will not go to Blizzard, but is going to the third party.
Q: How do you feel about the obvious separation between the gold and the real-world AH? They’re both the exact same in terms of features and functionality and everything? In terms of use from the player base, clearly as a player, I would prefer to sell, for real money, any item, but as a buyer, I’d prefer to buy with gold. Do you feel it’s going to swing heavily to one side or the other? I feel it’s going to favor heavily the real-world one overall because, obviously again, I would prefer real money for selling an in-game item.
A: I think people are going to lean more towards the real money AH and I think there is an answer for the person who says “I don’t want to trade in real money, I’d rather trade in gold…I mean, the gold AH is one of them and I think the gold AH will be viable to find a good amount of items, but one of the reasons we’re doing the free listings every week is to allow people to sell items to generate an e-balance so they never have to put real money into the system if they don’t want to. That allows someone to circumnavigate that option if they don’t want to buy with real money. And yeah, the e-balance is technically real money, but I earned it from items I sold and not from putting in a credit card.
They specifically mentioned every account would have X number of free sales per week. Depending on how they lay that out it could mean the transaction fees are simply a flat tax on volume traders. Although I remains to be seen how many trades an average player will want to make in that period of time.
Not sure what the nominal fees will be, my guess would be in the one dollar/euro range.
The LIMITED free listings will be done every Saturdays. Review the videos & interviews made during the Press Event last July 29 to the 30th.
Since it's limited, stupid will be those that will free list junk that nobody would even bother with.
Anyway, I'm still not clear on how the RMAH goes. Like if I chose the Gold AH instead, would I still be eligible to trade items in the RMAH or am I stuck with whichever option I chose at the beginning?
Lol, doubtfull, but i'm praying your right :P. I'll be there on saturday, and hoping jay will drop some new system reveal on us (no, i dont believe in beta announcement unfortunately :()
@ carnage665, would it be possible for you to verify this for us?
Like, if you set-up your Battle.net account for the Gold AH, would you still be eligible to trade items in the RMAH?
Likewise, if you set-up your Battle.net account for the RMAH instead, would you still be able to trade in the Gold AH, or are you stuck to trade ONLY in whichever AH you have set-up your account in the first place?
Not sure what the nominal fees will be, my guess would be in the one dollar/euro range.
That seems way too high
Not sure really. They want it to be substantial enough to create a real barrier to selling low-ends in bulk on the rmah. I could see them doing half that, but if the listing is down much lower than that you really have a potential issue of the gold market being stagnant for the first few weeks when prices are good.
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Last I heard there is a posting charge, and then a charge if you want to cash it into real money.
Most of these are basic fees not so different than when you use another banks ATM or something similar.
I assure you they aren't out to rob you blind, if they were they'd have made it percentage based. Besides if it costs 5$ to even post any item up, you think nearly anyone is going to use the RMAH?
"How is the transaction fee determined?
A nominal fixed transaction fee will be deducted from the seller for each item listed in the auction house. This fee consists of a fixed charge to list the item, which is assessed whether or not the item is successfully sold, and an additional fixed charge that is assessed only if the item is sold. Because the listing portion of the fee is charged even if the item doesn’t sell, it will be in the seller’s interest to list items he or she believes other players will be interested in, and to do so at a competitive price. Specific details related to the transaction fee for the currency-based auction house will vary by region and will be announced at a later date.
Please note that we plan to waive the listing portion of the fee for a limited number of transactions per account. In other words, for these transactions, the seller will only pay a transaction fee if the item is successfully sold, and that fee will not include the listing charge. We’ll have further details on this as well at a later date."
I hope they aren't because i'm looking forward to making money from this game.
They specifically mentioned every account would have X number of free sales per week. Depending on how they lay that out it could mean the transaction fees are simply a flat tax on volume traders. Although I remains to be seen how many trades an average player will want to make in that period of time.
Not sure what the nominal fees will be, my guess would be in the one dollar/euro range.
Since it's limited, stupid will be those that will free list junk that nobody would even bother with.
Anyway, I'm still not clear on how the RMAH goes. Like if I chose the Gold AH instead, would I still be eligible to trade items in the RMAH or am I stuck with whichever option I chose at the beginning?
@ carnage665, would it be possible for you to verify this for us?
Like, if you set-up your Battle.net account for the Gold AH, would you still be eligible to trade items in the RMAH?
Likewise, if you set-up your Battle.net account for the RMAH instead, would you still be able to trade in the Gold AH, or are you stuck to trade ONLY in whichever AH you have set-up your account in the first place?
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Not sure really. They want it to be substantial enough to create a real barrier to selling low-ends in bulk on the rmah. I could see them doing half that, but if the listing is down much lower than that you really have a potential issue of the gold market being stagnant for the first few weeks when prices are good.