Millions of people have stuff that they want to sell or trade online. Let’s look at what’s available for people today by starting with Ebay that is a popular online marketplace to sell your goods. Take our friend Jared, who is a vintage t-shirt promoter and often sells his difficult to find t-shirts on Ebay. According to the Ebay website the fees to sell something like a t-shirt are as follows:
Basic fees for most categories · 15% on total amount of the sale up to $1,000 calculated per item · 6.5% on the portion of the sale over $1,000 up to $7,500
If Jared owns a rare vintage Halloween movie t-shirt that he wants to sell for $199 on Ebay, they are going to take $30 for that one sale. That’s a pretty hefty portion of his profits and that’s just for one sale, but what if he sells ten of the shirts in his t-shirt collection and suddenly he’s paid $300 to Ebay to use their website to sell his shirts.
If he joined Traders Freak for $99 a year, he could sell a shirt anytime he wants and pay nothing in fees. He gets to keep 100% of his profits, regardless of how many shirts he sells or how much money he earns per sale. What if he just wants to trade his Halloween shirt for a collectible silver coin to someone? Again, he can do that and pay nothing. It doesn’t just work for shirts, but it works for comic books, collectible coins, books, Pokemon cards or anything that someone wants to buy, sell or trade.
You pay a flat $99 annual fee and you can use the site to list as many items as you want, as often as you like.
