Quote from: TNY on June 23, 2012, 01:54 amIts necessary to have some sort of "keep" to stay legit and use this service, safety is paramount, but 150 is too much, i would sell my wares here otherwise, but im only small time and have things from time to time so its actually alot of money to some believe it or not, IMO vendors should have a choice to pay this 150 or agree to do a number of samples or large cod's to long term legit buyers to prove authenticity and show their for real in for the long haul with a professional service etc, just a thought? All i would be doing with the BC is spending it on here again anyway lol :)Hi TNY,My worry would be if we didn't demand an up front fee is that scammers would simply exploit the vendor account as you say - look at Black Market Reloaded for instance where seller accounts cost nothing and corruption is rife. Offering samples is all well and fine but if you offered 15 samples and made a profit of $10 from each (which I understand is quite feasible?) you could make your money back in a matter of days.My day job is helping people to manage their investments to increase their wealth and I'll tell you for nothing if you're not certain that your business venture is going to make you more than $150 overall, you should find another way to make the money you need. If you need help with legitimate business ideas, by all means send me a message but I was happy to pay the seller fee as I planned to make much more than that! It also helped me to get started changing small amounts of cash to Bitcoins for people as I pointed out that I would hardly rip them off for sake of a few of our British pounds if I'd already paid 100 of them to become a vendor! :-)V.