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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by ben_w on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:55AM (#39140282)
> Kagi with fees in the 8-15% range iirc, or just selling direct with payment processors like PayPal for ~5%. Bandwidth was not a big cost back then and still isn’t today unless you’re doing something like 4K video streaming.

That's untrue, from my experience using Kagi (payment processor) to sell shareware in c. 2010.

Kagi had fixed fees in addition to a percentage, so anything sold for $5 had close to 30% just from Kagi, and my bandwidth also independently ended up close to 30% of my post-marketplace fees.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by agsnu on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @03:52AM (#39187818)
Hmm, perhaps my memory is from more like the $15-20 price point. Lower sale price would result in greater percentage being eaten by fees for sure. I remember using eSellerate c. 2005 and it was much less than 30%.
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