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

[Starsinthedirt at aol.com]

So far no one has mentioned the most obvious  part.  This idea of small 
product price/high shipping price is not  new.  It was pounded into the ground 
by sellers and it is a trick that  became synonymous (in the eBay meteorite 
circle) with the fake meteorite sellers  passing off hematite as China 
Nantan Iron.

You would not get much  credibility with your buyers doing this.

Tom

In a message dated  3/29/2010 11:41:05 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, 
meteoritemike at gmail.com  writes:
Hi Richard,

I agree.  eBay would catch on to this scheme  pretty quick.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 3/29/10, Richard  Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
>  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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