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> My fees are high but my COGS are low -- they're typically <30% 45% for me in 2025. >but our typical unit pricing is <$30 $59 ASP in 2025 ($63 average revenue per sale). >Most big…

>They already take 50%+ of our revenue for all expenses As mentioned my revenue is far smaller, so I need larger margins. My total marketplace fees plus shipping spend in 2025 was 26% of revenue. M…

>We've got ours since 2018 and when we balked on the price they just waived the fees You must be in the seven figures revenuewise or higher. I am not, and can't imagine getting the fee wa…

The refund structure has always been in place in the going on five years I've sold on Walmart. The random discounted fees have started in the past year.

I sell on both platforms. >Would Walmart take a lower fee? No, it would be the same as Amazon. Walmart charges less in two ways: * No monthly membership fee. * Seemingly random fee discounts, up to…

What I've heard about having the "Premium" (pay) version of Amazon account manager: It's just another layer of the same of the usual awful seller support. Since the "manager&q…

Agreed on all counts. I've thought more and more as time passes, that Jeanne Kirkpatrick was right when she said after the Cold War that the US should declare victory and exit NATO. More from me …

Your question is not an unreasonable one. One fifth of all Greenlanders live in Denmark.

Title shortened by me from "Led by Texas, New Hampshire, U.S. states race to prove they can put bitcoin on public balance sheet"

So Microsoft continues to support something that is presumably harder to maintain than Apple just continuing to ship existing 32-bit libraries?

Is the MacOS equivalent what was deprecated in Catalina, ending compatibility with 32-bit applications?

>No one would have recognized any tropes in 1957 beyond Shakespeare. Nope. Just within science fiction, early issues of Galaxy had many editorials denouncing/mocking science fiction stories …

Thanks for the detailed answer; I very much appreciate it. You've given me much to think about.

> If you are careful and lucky and the users aren't too inventive these spaces won't contaminate the data, although generally contaminated data is the normal state of most data in FileMak…

Sticking with Apple, FileMaker

> I know a lot of couples who feel like the wife's job is a hobby, because after taxes it barely covers childcare (especially if you also value spending time with your kids). When described th…

> Some kind of tech hipsterism drives this. But a lot of these proponents were just suffering under inferior tech. Well put. futuraperdita put it well in his reply, too. According to said hipsters,…

Yes. That said, I work for myself at home in a job that takes only a few hours a day. The money would affect that in the sense that the additional assets and guaranteed income would allow more investi…

Starlink has no ground stations on Iranian soil and is formally prohibited by its government, so there is nothing being "provided" to Iran, per se. Iranians smuggle Starlink dishes in, at gr…

>Now I guess I get to do business with Chase again, which is neat. I’m happy to be part of an economy where I can vote with my dollar like this. You were unusually unlucky. The US has a very decent…

I point out that any European attempt at economic warfare against the US would inevitably affect both sides, and that the US is much less dependent on foreign trade than Europe ... and yet you again s…

>The actual law, dictated by the F-1 visa program allowing foreign studies, is that a foreign Stanford PhD must permanently depart the United States within 60 days after graduation. There's a …