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the only number that matters

4.2069%
forever

in a sea of scams, the kindest thing a marketplace can do is take less. so we do — and we wrote down the number so we can never quietly change it.

what the others take

eBay+ the ads they push you to buy to get seenup to ~18%
StockXafter their cut and their mandatory inbound shippingup to ~20%
Poshmarkflat, on anything over $1520%
Whatnot~11.5%
Mercari10%
cbuy4.2069%

they call it a marketplace. it spends like protection money.

what 4.2069% is not

why forever

a number you can change is a number you will change — the first quarter someone decides no one's looking.

so we locked it. 4.2069% isn't a price. it's a promise with our name on it.

raise it and we become exactly the thing we built cbuy to escape. that's why the number lives in the brand, not the spreadsheet. that's why it's forever.

the math, on one real sale

sell a $4,000 gold coin.

$544
eBay keeps
$168
cbuy keeps
=
+$376
stays with you

every single time. the bigger the sale, the more obvious the difference.

low fees aren't charity. in crypto, trust is the only moat — and you don't earn it with a whitepaper. you earn it by taking less than you could, on purpose, where everyone can see.

cbuy. direct by default.

a wholesome marketplace for real things.
settled onchain · encrypted at rest · ranked by nobody who paid to be there.
on-chain escrow buyer protection goes live august 1, 2026.