We charge no fees to bidders or buyers who register with a corporate, government or ISP email address. We charge no recurring membership fees of any kind. Users of free email services like Hotmail or Yahoo or persons whose registration information is flagged as suspicious by our fraud prevention systems may be required to place a credit card on file to pay for identity verification. To prevent fraud and abuse, new users with no feedback must place a credit card on file to use the BuyNow! immediate purchase option.

There are two types of fees a seller may incur by listing or selling items on GunBroker.com. We charge a Final Value Fee that is assessed only if your item ends with a winning bidder. We offer some Optional Services that can be used to enhance the listing that must be paid for if you choose to use them and which must be paid for whether or not the item is sold. If you choose to use any of our Optional Services and the item does not sell it can be relisted free of charge using the same options. We charge no 'insertion' fees for creating listings and have no recurring 'membership' fees. Full details of our fees are enclosed in this document.

For any item that is won by one a bidder we assess a final value fee based on the selling price of the item. A sold item is one that is bid on and won a by a bidder in accordance with our User Agreement. If an item does not sell no Final Value Fee is assessed. In other words, if you create a basic listing (one that uses no Optional Services) and the item does not sell you do not owe us anything. Click here for a full description of the Final Value Fee.

Our Optional Services are designed to make your auction listings stand out from the others. The services consist of priority placements and attention-getting features that help to get more bidders to look at and hopefully bid on your item. No other print or online classified ad or auction venue offers the package of priority placement and attention-getting options offered by GunBroker.com.

What's Free - We do not charge any 'insertion' fees for creating a basic listing. Basic listings are completely free unless the item is won by a bidder (sold items are assessed a Final Value Fee). When listing an item the seller can decide on an item by item basis which of our optional services (if any) to use. Our basic listings are more powerful than the paid listings available on other sites or venues. Sellers can use HTML to create fancy listings. Sellers can take advantage of our automated picture upload facility to add pictures to their listings; if fact, we strongly recommend this. Basic listings are not limited compared to their Showcase or Featured counterparts. The only difference is that basic listings appear below the Featured listings in the 'Items in...' section.

What's Not Free - Icons that appear to the left of the item in the category page. We charge if you want to schedule the time an auction begins instead of launching it immediately. You will have to pay a Final Value Fee if the item is won by a bidder.

Each seller must place a credit card on file with us to be able to list items for sale. You can use Place a Credit Card on File on our For Sellers page to place a credit card on file or to update your card on file. Any fees you incur will be accumulated throughout a calendar month and then billed to your credit card on file on or about the 6th of the following month. For example, if you sell and item in January your credit card will be charged on the 6th of February.

If your credit card fails to authorize you will not be able to list additional items until you use Place a Credit Card on File on our For Sellers page to update your card on file. If your card fails to authorize your account must be paid promptly; past due users will be suspended from using the site until the balance has been paid in full.

Optional service fees are non-refundable once used and must be paid for whether or not the item sells. Items that do not sell can be relisted at the same level of optional services without being billed again for those optional services. You must relist the item that did not sell by using our Bulk Relist Items function located on our For Sellers page. If you relist an item that was won by a bidder, the relisting will incur the same fees as the original listing.

If a bidder wins an item but does not complete the transaction, you can request a credit for the Final Value Fee plus the cost to relist the item at the same level of optional services. Credit requests must be made within 60 days of the close of an auction. Our Non-Paying Bidder Overview located in For Sellers explains the process of requesting a credit.

Showcase auctions are randomly displayed on our Home Page. Our Home Page is the most-visited page on GunBroker.com. Consequently, Showcase auctions will be seen by the largest audience of any of our auction types. When a seller lists an item, he can decide to have that item listed in the 'Featured' category. In doing so, he will incur a small fee for that listing.

Showcase listings are an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers as a way for them to get priority placement for their auction listings.

Each category such as Rifles, Pistols, Shotguns and etc. contain two sections of auction listings. Featured auctions are listed at the top of each category, and are listed first in search results. Because the item is listed above other auctions, it will typically be seen by more bidders and will often draw more bids and command a higher purchase price. When a seller lists an item, he can decide to have that item listed in the 'Featured' section. In doing so, he will incur a small fee for that listing.

Featured listings are an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers as a way for them to get priority placement for their auction listings.

Make your listing stand out from others in the category listings for a small fee! This options highlights your listing in yellow to make it stand out from the other listings.

Highlighting is an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers as a way for them to draw additional attention to their listings.

Make your listing stand out from others in the category listings for a small fee! This option causes your item's title to be displayed in boldface text.

Boldface titles are an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers as a way for them to draw additional attention to their listings.

Make your listing stand out from others in the category listings for a small fee! This option causes your item's title to be displayed in the color of your choice - red, green, or blue. A colored title is especially effective when combined with the boldface title option.

Colored titles are an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers as a way for them to draw additional attention to their listings.

A thumbnail image is a miniaturized picture of your item that is displayed to the left of your item's title when a bidder browses or searches our listings. Thumbnail Images are an eye-catching device designed to draw the bidder's attention to your listing.

Thumbnail Images are an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers as a way for them to draw additional attention to their listings.

A counter keeps track of the number of times an item has been viewed since being listed. Sellers can use counters as a way to gauge the interest bidders have shown in an item. Sellers can experiment with different item titles and measure the results via the counter.

Counters are an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers as a way for them to track statistics on their listings.

A Scheduled Auction is one where you select the start date and time for the auction instead of launching it immediately. Sellers can use this to enter auctions before they want them to be displayed so that they have the flexibility to enter when it is convenient for them to enter them without having to worry about when the auction actually begins and ends.

Scheduled Auctions are an extra-charge optional service that we provide to our sellers to allow them more flexibility in creating and launching their auctions.

The Scheduled Auction feature will be enabled upon the completion of V4 beta testing.

A Final Value Fee is assessed if your item is sold. The Final Value Fee is assessed when the listing closes and is based on the price that the item is sold for. If the item is not sold (reserve not met or no bids were placed) there is no Final Value Fee. For Dutch auctions the Final Value Fee is based on the cumulative sale price of all items sold out of the lot. You can use our Final Value Fee Calculator to find out the fees associated with your item.

Here is how you calculate your Final Value Fee:

1. Take the first $25 of your final value and multiply it by 5%. If your item sold for $25 or less this is your Final Value Fee.
2. If your final value was more than $25, take the additional amount between $25.01 and $1,000 and multiply it by 2.5%.
3. If your final value was more than $1,000, take the additional amount above $1000 and multiple it by 1.25%.
4. Add up these these amounts and that is your Final Value Fee.

For example, a $1500 item would cost:

1. $25 times 5% = $1.25
2. $975 times 2.5% = $24.38
3. $500 times 1.25% = $6.25
4. Total = $31.88

A $500 item would cost:

1. $25 times 5% = $1.25
2. $475 times 2.5% = $11.88
3. Total = $13.13