Oh really? Because $25 is going to keep me from stealing $200 in bike parts? To be honest the reason you haven't been scammed is because of probably higher traffic of marketplaces elsewhere and the general lack of interest in the marketplace here.

Just tell the truth, it's about incentive to get a membership. E-bay doesn't claim their $0.17 is to stop scammers, neither should you.


Anyway I think a viable model would be a pay as you sell model, it will get rid of annual fees for the marketplace (keep the membership of course though), and seems to be more market standard.