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

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:40:57 -0400
Message-ID: <e51421551003291040xf38f74em6e3ba4f3426625a1_at_mail.gmail.com>

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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