$80,000 for listing a single IEO? Just imagine how much these exchanges are making, as many of them have 20-25 IEOs ongoing at the same time. I just checked the IEO spreadsheet created by Tetris, and he has listed 22 ongoing IEOs. So earlier with ICOs, it used to be the ICO promoters who used to do the scamming. With IEOs, the exchange owners have become scammers.
That said, I would direct some amount of blame to the IEO promoter (Shawn Key). He had invested 80K for the listing and he should have been more careful. At the very minimum, he could have signed a legal agreement with Coineal, providing him the list of the services he expect from them, including real time tracking of the IEO progress.
That is even low compared to what other of exchanges like huobi, binance and other great exchanges are making, but I don’t think that it is really a bad idea for them to place such amount of money on the project because if the listing fee is too cheap, then we will have series of very bad project being able to afford it, at least this will first scare non-serious projects away because any serious project should at least have their money first.
I am so sure that Yobit fee is extremely very low because I can see how many shit IEO are being released on the platform always, but in a case where the listing fee is high, it would discourage nonserious projects first and limit the level of scam and bad projects that we have In the market today, but what exchanges do with the fee is what needs to be reviewed.