re not charging fees, your infrastructure has to work harder to justify why anyone stays, because you can I didn't build the business model, but I've spent a lot of time on the engineering side of what that pricing model actually forces you to get right, and I wanted to write down what that's taught me, mistakes included. A marketplace that charges 10-13% per sale can afford a clunky onboarding flow, because the revenue is already flowing. That reframes a lot of otherwise "nice to have" engineering work as actually load-bearing for the business. Asking them to manually re-list everything is the single biggest thing standing between "interested" and "actually selling.