What's the Madden Auction House transaction fee?

Get rid of Tax

Yey

50%

Ney

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I would do ANYTHING for EA ❤️

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https://help.ea.com/en/articles/madden-nfl/madden-auction-house/

Interesting read from the EA Help website.

But here's why WE all know it's B.S.

Auction House 10% Fee – Why It Actually Raises Prices (LTD Example)

EA states that the 10% Auction House fee exists to “level out prices” and make the market more accessible. In practice, the opposite happens—especially with LTD cards.

Here’s a concrete example using real behavior everyone sees:

LTDs quicksell for 350,000 coins (hard price floor).

Because of the 10% AH fee, sellers list LTDs at around 400,000 coins.

400k sale = 360k after tax

That’s 10k profit over quicksell.

This isn’t price leveling—it’s price inflation driven by the fee.

Now remove the fee:

Sellers could list the same LTD at ~360,000 coins

They’d net the same profit

Buyers pay 40k less for the exact same card

That is objectively more accessible.

The key point:

A flat transaction fee does not suppress prices. Sellers simply price the fee into the listing. The fee widens the gap between the quicksell floor and the market price, pushing costs higher for buyers, especially newer or lower coin players.

If the goal is fairness or accessibility, a flat 10% tax works against it. It protects high-coin sellers and penalizes buyers.

This isn’t theory, it’s visible every day in LTD pricing.

Would genuinely like to hear how EA reconciles this with the stated goal of “levelling out prices,” because current market behavior shows the opposite.

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no because imagine how easy coins would be easy to earn and the are already easy enough

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Actually, they should change the fee structure employed in the Auction House. There should absolutely be an Auction House take on sales, but there should also be a listing fee. A listing fee would reduce the upward pull on prices because no one would list items whose sole purpose for being listed is to justify the elevated prices of other listings at a relatively lower cost.

The price floor on LTD's is a unique case, and not one that reflects the market forces involved in most Auction House sales, including LTD's.

Leave the responsibility with buyers to determine whether a purchase has value.

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You need the 10% tax or the Market Manipulators can easily inflated the value of the cards. This has always been the case.

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TecmoEagles said:

You need the 10% tax or the Market Manipulators can easily inflated the value of the cards. This has always been the case.

Explain your logic.

The fee doesn’t prevent manipulation; it just inflates prices across the board and hurts buyers more than anyone else, because the buyers pay the tax.

The tax is designed to take coins out of the market in order to keep players grinding/paying for more.

I would like to see exactly how many coins are burnt (taxed) on a daily basis.

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EazyBreezy said:

no because imagine how easy coins would be easy to earn and the are already easy enough

Ease of "earning" would remain static.

But answer this honestly:

If there was an option to "Pay Fee", a simple box to check when posting the cards for sale, would you check the box?

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Good luck selling any cards when every kid in China is buying and reselling every item for 1 coin profit

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Daddy said:

Good luck selling any cards when every kid in China is buying and reselling every item for 1 coin profit

Yep exactly

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The market would constantly crash like literally. There would be 100 times more transactions.

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Daddy said:

Good luck selling any cards when every kid in China is buying and reselling every item for 1 coin profit

Hahaha 🤣

The visual I got from this is awesome 😁

Thanks for that laugh 😄

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#11

Daddy said:

Good luck selling any cards when every kid in China is buying and reselling every item for 1 coin profit

This is the most logical argument for keeping the tax I've heard.

Kudos to you 👍

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Daddy said:

Good luck selling any cards when every kid in China is buying and reselling every item for 1 coin profit

+200 social credit score

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The tax is good to keep mini Warren Buffet wannabes and gold sellers that try and control the market by buying up every card of a player and relisting for 100% profit but with zero risk.

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tax is necessary....the market would be a mess without it

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greeneblitz77 said:

The tax is good to keep mini Warren Buffet wannabes and gold sellers that try and control the market by buying up every card of a player and relisting for 100% profit but with zero risk.

Everyone uses that as their argument, but explain exactly how the market would flip upside down if EA already has bots, algorithms, A.I., etc at its disposal to combat any suspicious A.H. activity.

EA doesn’t say “market manipulation” outright, but still, their ToS bans anything that artificially influences the MUT economy, collusion, exploiting systems, bots, or coordinated behavior that gives an unfair advantage—and they can restrict or ban accounts for it at their discretion.

There is a system in place to combat this already; why else are so many people getting A.H. bans for simply being too active?

You will always have those people who attempt to work the system one way or another, but WE the players set the prices and just because you post a card for twice the market rate doesn't mean anyone will buy it.

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