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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: trava on July 20, 2012, 11:22 am

Title: SR commision rates
Post by: trava on July 20, 2012, 11:22 am
what are the rates for the various prices?
Title: Re: SR commision rates
Post by: mrshah on July 20, 2012, 12:10 pm
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=8397.0
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We've worked hard to come up with a commission schedule that should work for everyone and will give scammers no excuse to make people send money outside of escrow.  For some perspective, eBay and amazon charge the following rates:

eBay     - $0.50 to list, 11% of the first $50, 6% of $50.01-1000, 2% of $1000.01+
amazon - $1.35 + 15% (for almost all items)

We also went to the Silk Road independent sellers to see what they thought an appropriate commission schedule would look like.  The average response looked like this:

15% of the first $10
11% of $10 - $50
8.14% of $50 - $250
5.6% of $250 - $1000
3.7% of $1000 - $5000

We looked at past sales data and our current and future revenue needs and were able to bring these numbers down even further:

10% of the first $50
8.5% of $50 - 150
6% of $150 - 300
3% of $300 - 500
2% of $500 - 1000
1.5% for everything over $1000

With this change, there are no phoney excuses whatsoever for vendors to ask for out of escrow payment.  Any request should be interpreted as a scam attempt and reported to the Silk Road support team via the “contact us” link on the main site.  We are looking at several mechanisms for enforcing the ban on OOE transactions, from self-policing to bounties on offenders.

I think this is what you're looking for?
Title: Re: SR commision rates
Post by: trava on July 20, 2012, 12:12 pm
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=8397.0
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We've worked hard to come up with a commission schedule that should work for everyone and will give scammers no excuse to make people send money outside of escrow.  For some perspective, eBay and amazon charge the following rates:

eBay     - $0.50 to list, 11% of the first $50, 6% of $50.01-1000, 2% of $1000.01+
amazon - $1.35 + 15% (for almost all items)

We also went to the Silk Road independent sellers to see what they thought an appropriate commission schedule would look like.  The average response looked like this:

thanks alot m8, couldn't find it for some reason
15% of the first $10
11% of $10 - $50
8.14% of $50 - $250
5.6% of $250 - $1000
3.7% of $1000 - $5000

We looked at past sales data and our current and future revenue needs and were able to bring these numbers down even further:

10% of the first $50
8.5% of $50 - 150
6% of $150 - 300
3% of $300 - 500
2% of $500 - 1000
1.5% for everything over $1000

With this change, there are no phoney excuses whatsoever for vendors to ask for out of escrow payment.  Any request should be interpreted as a scam attempt and reported to the Silk Road support team via the “contact us” link on the main site.  We are looking at several mechanisms for enforcing the ban on OOE transactions, from self-policing to bounties on offenders.

I think this is what you're looking for?

thanks alot m8 but is this not abit out dated cos i know its around 9% for low cost items i just dont know the rest of the scale
Title: Re: SR commision rates
Post by: mrshah on July 20, 2012, 03:30 pm
No idea, those are the most recent figures i've seen. Maybe ask vendor support?