# Amazon Marketplace question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 13, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-marketplace-question/449144 "2008-05-13T06:02:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-marketplace-question/449144/21 "2008-05-13T22:07:40Z")
[QUOTE=DCTrekkie] Oh yeah, I looked at Amazon once and they take so many charges I don’t know how you can make a decent profit on anything. Perhaps he saw what the charges would be, and decided that wouldn’t leave him as much as he wanted. It’s still his problem, he chose to use Amazons services and he should have read the details properly. SNIP [/QUOTE] Fee summary is here: [http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1161240](http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1161240) Basically, standard sellers pay Amazon $2.35 per sale plus 15% of the selling price. From following the message boards over there, you’d be led to believe that several dozen people a day begin selling on Amazon without learning either what the fees are or the actual costs to ship most items. You’re led to believe this because they show up in Amazon’s in-house forums cussing and hollerring about the whole thing… ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-marketplace-question/449144/22 "2008-05-13T22:30:31Z")
[QUOTE=DrFidelius] Amazon is not going to get involved. [/QUOTE] There’s really no way they _could_ get involved. If they applied any pressure, he could just claim that he broke it, and that the other one he’s listing is a different version. Unless there’s a serial number involved, how could anyone prove differently? He could just say that he used the same listing and picture because he was lazy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-marketplace-question/449144.md?page=1)