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by wiremonger 1377 days ago
> Fees are even less if they sell direct on Ebay or Shopify.

eBay charges similar fees: https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/sell...

Shopify is not a meaningful comparison, since it is not a marketplace. They don't bring customers to you. They're essentially a hosting and payments provider. You have to get traffic yourself.

> yet they engage in this anti-competitive and consumer damaging behavior of requiring sellers to sell products at low or below cost

Is your position that they are increasing the prices consumer pay or that they're decreasing them?