[meteorite-list] I thought of an idea on how to get around...

[Richard Kowalski]

I usually don't sell on ebay, but when I did sell a few items, I put in the actual estimated cost for shipping the item instead of using ebay's "calculator". The actual cost was always higher than what their calc came up with and I got a warning that my price was higher than it should have been. This "warning" advised that I might lose business because if the higher cost.

I'm wondering if ebay has already thought of this and any dealer that has excessive shipping costs in every auction would get flagged by ebay?
It seems to me this would be pretty easy for them to keep track of and would probably violate the TOS and eventually get the dealer booted.

Just curious.


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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081


--- On Sun, 3/28/10, Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] I thought of an idea on how to get around the price increase on eBay on some items
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 10:36 PM
> Hello List
>  
> I have seen this done before on eBay with items I have
> bought. The seller would offer the item at buy it now for $2
> and the shipping would be 15. Now if your a seller and
> offering an item that isn't that much I could see the
> seller charging $15 to $40 for shipping and
> handling/packaging quote un quote, if they know the item
> will go for that rate at buy it now or 5 day auction bid,
> where it would only go for $2 to $5 at closing, which the
> seller would only be charged for the closing cost and not
> the shipping and handling cost (that was a long run on
> sentence). I guess its worth a try on certain items that
> sell for a fixed rate. 
> Just a thought 
>  
> Shawn Alan  
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