For three years now, I have been a proud member of gaia. Accepting all of its faults without uttering a single complaint.
But this new announcement truly pisses me off.
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Before you use the new Marketplace, be aware of this major change: There is now a 2% listing fee for all items in the Marketplace. This means that if your item is sold, Gaia will take a 2% cut of the selling price. This will help stabilize the Gaia economy by controlling inflation and preventing abuse of the Marketplace. However, this means that we no longer have to require vending licenses, so everyone who has previously bought one will have their 1000 Gaia Gold refunded.
The vend is my life on gaia, as it is for many of my dear friends. 2% may not seem like much.. but that is a truckload of gold when you are selling 03s, or numerous 04s at the same time. For example.. my vend record (not including mules) is:
Serving Gaia since Fri May 14, 2004 10:27 pm with 8122 transactions, totaling 245990666 gold!
thats almost 5 million gold that would've been simply flushed down the drain.
What I don't get is their logic. Doing this will only cause even more inflation, as people have to sell stuff for higher in order to compensate for this loss.
well.. there better be some AWESOME features. Like the ability to put in as many items as you want at once. or something.
If not, I know I'm not going to be spending nearly as much time on gaia anymore.
~ Sean
Community Member