Ebay charges 2%, but only on a few categories (Hea
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A lot of other categories are 10%-13%
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credit...es?id=4364
Amazon charge 8%-45%
https://sell.amazon.com/pricing
eBay doesn't have live stream anymore that I know of and who knows what Amazon charges for that. The average joe wouldn't be allowed to stream on Amazon anyway.
I don't think Verb or any streaming company would take just 2% or they probably wouldn't break even. Heck, even Paypal charges 2.89% for goods and services and higher if it's something else and that is just for payment.
I looked up Bambusers pricing
https://bambuser.com/pricing
The only thing they have listed is their cheapest package which is $599/mo
IF you pay for all 12 months. Otherwise it's $799/mo
VerbTeams is less then a 1/16th of that cost with a heck of a lot more functionality.
Oh, and Bambuser charges a usage fee per viewed hour of $1.85 maybe to cover some of their CDN cost.
What is interesting is, Rory talking about buying a Content Delivery Network (CDN) company. I used to run public sites and apps for a big brand and we were using Akamai which is the giant and some times others like Level 3. CDN isn't cheap, but if you have high volumes, the price drops significantly. You need CDN for your solution to perform fast if you are global. It is a heck of a lot cheaper than standing up virtual servers on the edge.
Now you have to ask yourself, why is Rory is even thinking about buying a CDN company? Why not rent data throughput from Akamai or others?
From just Rory mentioning this is some serious stuff. You wouldn't even dream about it unless you were contemplating some crazy scale. I am pretty, pretty, pretty sure he wasn't just throwing the idea out there for the heck of it as few would really know what that even means let alone the significance.
I get there will be some doubters, but I guess there were doubters that said verbLIVE would never take off and now billion dollar companies are using it like crazy.