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the payment is to prevent scammers with no history from setting up shop for free and ripping people off.
any scammer can invest money to find victims and they do it a lot without even thinking, especially when some markets request small amounts to be a vendor.
it probably just annoys me that there is no real reasoning around it except saying its there to prevent small scammers to pop up and start spamming scams
thanks for the answers
It’s clear that the fee is meant to generate direct profit running a market and covering all the associated expenses doesn’t get paid with passion alone...
The idea of filtering out low-level scammers is valid: it's unlikely that a scammer just starting out has the budget to pay the vendor bond on a “serious” market.
What I don’t understand is how you even get scammed by a vendor through a market, if the market provides escrow.
Even if they don’t ship, you can always open a dispute.
I imagine the only way to get scammed is by not caring much about the money, maybe by not extending the escrow in time.
Best regards
TedKaczy