I purposely do not sell out of escrow because I think that SR deserves his cut. I think this could change if the increase is implemented. Also, according to their own words, they have been incrementally going up month after moth with the 6.23 percent. If it gets raised, i bet my last bigcoin that number will go down. If it aiint broke, don't fix it.... Things are going good right now. If sales are going up each month, then let it ride. I see nothing but problems if you start charging more. 1. Vendors will go outside of escrow (especially the trusted ones) 2. vendors will try to sell outside of SR, like OVDB and other places.. I say, leave well enough alone. and in 6 months you will be able to buy your mansion..... I don't like the comparison to Amazon and Ebay either. When Ebay stated, I believe that that it was entirely a bid system and the percentage was quite low. The reason the prices of Amazon and Ebay have gone up so much is that they are so popular and make so much money. Also, If you start charging prices that are getting closer to 20 percent. you will start seeing regular customers working side deals with their reguar vendors and cutting SR totally out of the loop. I see this as a huge step back for SR.... I was kind of upset with they raised to 6.23 percent, but hey, no big deal. but when I see it double, whats next month? tripple? where's the end?