Hello Twinkledoe,
Just the opposite, the manufacturer's can offer their products at lower prices because we also avoid taxes to our platform and bank fees for both sides customer and buisness.
Our income will be mostly from our two types of business models:
Freemium - we give the opportunity for merchants to get more out of our platform. With additional payments, they will be able to increase the visibility of the product(s) they have listed. This will be done by bumping their listings higher in the search results of customers. Having this increase in visibility will help merchants to gain more exposure, and thus, potentially increase the amount of sales they make substantially.
Subscription-based - Upon subscribing they shall receive the following benefits:
promotion of their goods with better quality pictures compressed automatically by the eMarketChain platform, along with a broader suggestion engine for the items or services they are offering;
weekly suggestions on how to improve their advertisements, provided by our dedicated marketing specialists;
similar to the freemium approach, the possibility to list their offers higher in the results shown to customers.
The subscription fee per month is fixed and will be between 19$ - 49$ depending on the chosen package
The models are completely optional and users will not lose any main functionality and options provided by eMarketChain.co, when using the system for free. For more information, please look at the last paragraph in our one-pager or for more detailed information - page 15 in our whitepaper / https://emarketchain.co/whitepaper.pdf/