Word: fee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were listings for a whole lot of computer hardware. eBay started out free, but it quickly attracted so much traffic that Omidyar's Internet service upped his monthly bill to $250. Now that it was costing him real money, Omidyar decided to start charging. He concocted a fee scale similar to the one eBay uses today: a nominal fee for listing an item (10[cents] back then, as little as 25[cents] now) and a percent of the final sale price...
...this service comes at a cost to the council, which is funded by a $20 undergraduate term bill fee. According to Darling, the council allocated $3,000 to the shuttle program, but hopes to recover most of that cost in ticket sales...
Bradley L. Davis '00, who last month encouraged the council to bring the fee hike to a student referendum, joined several other council members in arguing that the term bill failed because the rhetoric of more money to student groups didn't play well the student body...
...dean, who supported the fee hike, registered his surprise that the referendum failed...
...Clearly there is some inconsistency between the reluctance of students to increase the fee and the large number of applications by student groups to the U.C. when they are looking for grants," Lewis said...