# Maker fee to be lost if I remove offer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [January 25, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993 "2019-01-25T22:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/littlebit2big/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/u/littlebit2big)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993/1 "2019-01-25T22:42:30Z")
Why would I lose my maker fee if I remove an offer? I don’t show that it’s been accepted yet but I get this message if I click on the Remove Offer icon. ---
**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993/2 "2019-01-26T06:25:01Z")
> [@littlebit2big](#): > > Why would I lose my maker fee if I remove an offer? This is an antispam measure, to avoid the Bisq network being flooded. As well the network itself than the users. Please notice that the fees for the makers have recently been cut by half. In order to facilitate makers job. ---
**Author:** ![littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/littlebit2big/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/u/littlebit2big)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 6:36am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993/3 "2019-01-29T06:36:06Z")
I thought that the only way I could lose my deposit was in arbitration. Did I miss the fine print? Is this like an eBay listing fee? So it’s not possible to decide to withdraw an unaccepted offer, ever, without losing some coin? ---
**Author:** ![Homard](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/homard/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Homard](https://bisq.community/u/Homard)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 7:11am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993/4 "2019-01-29T07:11:39Z")
> [@littlebit2big](#): > > So it’s not possible to decide to withdraw an unaccepted offer, ever, without losing some coin? In short, yes. For the good reasons exposed in my previous post. Maker fee is 0.1% atm, that’s not really a huge amount. If you have some good idea about a better mechanism for avoiding spam offers, you may make a proposal at [GitHub - bisq-network/proposals: @bisq-network improvement proposals](https://github.com/bisq-network/proposals) Bisq is an open source project which welcomes contributions. ---
**Author:** ![littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/littlebit2big/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@littlebit2big](https://bisq.community/u/littlebit2big)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993/5 "2019-01-29T08:17:02Z")
How would a spam offer work? Sorry if I’m not getting it. ---
**Author:** ![MnM](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/mnm/32/257_2.png) [@MnM](https://bisq.community/u/MnM)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993/6 "2019-01-29T10:07:00Z")
Offers need to be received and sent through Bisq nodes, they could be saturated (like a ddos) by unrealistic offers. ---
**Author:** ![peoples](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/peoples/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@peoples](https://bisq.community/u/peoples)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/maker-fee-to-be-lost-if-i-remove-offer/6993/7 "2019-01-29T17:11:33Z")
@littlebit2big - If you are interested in posting a trade in the client to see how all of the fields are displayed and what your offer will look like, you can use testnet. From the client, go to Settings \> General preferences \> Select Network \> Testnet. After restarting Bisq, you can use bitcoin testnet coins to examine the system and create offers without sacrificing a fee.