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Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses by planetafro on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:25AM (#25398096)
Is the 3% fee to "cash out" earned on your end or PayPal? It just feels a little disengenuous to advertise a rate but the only way to receive payment is at a loss of 3%. ...or is the model that the sharers are also customers and you encourage them to use the service while discouraging "cashout"?
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Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses by hansvm on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:27PM (#25400780)
It's been awhile since I've done much with PayPal, but at one point a typical fee was $0.30 + 2.9%, so at a 3% fee they'd be taking a small hit in the processing fees for orders below $300 and turning a mild profit when people cash out for more than that. YMMV with their current fee structure.

Agreed it's a little scummy to not factor your operating expenses into the price of the product, especially if that's not blatantly obvious from the outset.

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