Please implement a listing fee!

[Sparky]

How about deducting the tax if an item is taken off the market? At the moment the tax is deducted at the point of sale, which should remain, but if you cancel the items, the tax should be deducted regardless.

[Xystic]

How about deducting the tax if an item is taken off the market? At the moment the tax is deducted at the point of sale, which should remain, but if you cancel the items, the tax should be deducted regardless.

Works the same as placing an initial listing fee.

[Xystic]

Works the same as placing an initial listing fee.

This was your second reply.

Not exactly the same. It costs nothing to list the item, so it wont harm people with no money, but it would deter people from relisting items and give them the incentive to let the auctions run their course.

Your second reply clearly implied you could not see your own flaw in your logic. So I drew it out for you.

I'm going to have to draw this out for you if you can't seem to see the flaw in your logic.

I'm sure it's terribly interesting - I might read it some time.

Now if my statement was indeed meant to be patronizing, I would have not gone thru the entire trouble of trying to help someone understand their own flaw with equations.

[Xystic]

I'll point out your own flaw, seeing as this is the game we are playing.

The argument earlier deals with listing fees and re-listing fees to stop re-listing.

Not exactly the same. It costs nothing to list the item, so it wont harm people with no money, but it would deter people from relisting items and give them the incentive to let the auctions run their course.

This is where our argument sprouted from.

The equations represent that no matter where you place the fee in the equation, the poorer player will still suffer the same issues of being cornered. We aren't talking about making a sale to make future sales. We also aren't talking about the benefits of an initial listing fee versus a post fee.

We were arguing about whether or not initial fees or post fees will deter people from re-listing.

You've obviously latched on completely to the one little part of my statement that mentioned relisting. But if you care to re-read my post, you'll see that I was clearly primarily talking about a final sale fee.

Yes, your primary goal may have been the final sale fee, but our argument was clearly sprouted from your argument below about your fees if the item is taken off and reposted. This is what we've been arguing about, I have not argued against other parts of your posts yet. The whole entire thing up to now has just been this.

How about deducting the tax if an item is taken off the market? At the moment the tax is deducted at the point of sale, which should remain, but if you cancel the items, the tax should be deducted regardless.

I stated its the same as initial listing fees then which promotes poorer players in being cornered.

We aren't talking about making sales, future sales, benefits of a initial fee versus a post fee or a final sale fee.

We were arguing fee versus re-listing.