Quote from: microRNA on October 13, 2012, 10:02 pmThis is actually a fairly common practiceand its actually the vendor doing you a favorthe cost to place an order (SR commission) is a percentage of the cost of the order, therefore if the vendor has a listing for 0.0 btc then they can check your stats without it costing you anythinghowever, if you were to place the actual order, and then they didnt like your stats and canceled the order, you would lose the commissionThat is incorrect.Commission is paid by the vendor upon the successful completion of a transaction, not by the buyer upon ordering. When the money is released from escrow the vendor receives the amount that their product is advertised for, minus commission. The only way that a buyer would lose money from a cancelled order is if the order is hedged, as outlined in my last post.Quoted from the 'Pricing' section of the Seller's Guide:http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/index.php/silkroad/sellers_guideQuote from: Silk Road Seller's GuideYou may also choose whether to set your price before or after commission is added. If you choose "pre-commission pricing", the price you set will be the amount of money you are paid when a transaction is complete, but your customers will see a higher price that includes the commission. If you choose "post-commission pricing", you set the price that your customers pay. When you get paid, the amount you receive will be less than this by the amount of the commission. Either way, commission is only taken from a successful sale.- grahamgreene