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Fees on Etsy and Ebay are high, but domain name registration, designing, hosting and maintaining a website isn't free. For years someone else has done that at their expense while we all complain when the free for us to use website goes down. Ella pointed out that passing on any of those charges would mean the owner of that website is then considered trade. That's a losing situation for the for website owner.
I can't recall exactly, but my in-laws had a managed splash page for their business and I think it was about £80 a year for a very basic page that had a few links on it, no interaction such as it publishing a listing or ability to upload photos. It's a small cost in the grand scheme it's still a cost in time and money that we're asking someone else to take on for us so we can have a free to use platform. I've always wondered why LT existed at all, lucky for us that we had it, but the constant complaints must have been a headache for the nice person who just tried to do a favour.
I can't recall exactly, but my in-laws had a managed splash page for their business and I think it was about £80 a year for a very basic page that had a few links on it, no interaction such as it publishing a listing or ability to upload photos. It's a small cost in the grand scheme it's still a cost in time and money that we're asking someone else to take on for us so we can have a free to use platform. I've always wondered why LT existed at all, lucky for us that we had it, but the constant complaints must have been a headache for the nice person who just tried to do a favour.