Originally Posted by justflyingin
I agree. And not just with fabaric. Once I bought an mp3 player which the person ended up costing them $.86 for postage (it was a very small one) and I paid $9.00 shipping/handling. :(
That kind of stuff should be going away soon - that was just eBay fee avoidance.
It wasn't so much that they were charging you more for postage, it was that they were charging less for the actual item so they wouldn't have to pay eBay's Final Value Fee (FVF) on the higher product sale.
eBay, because of all those shenanigans, has now started charging sellers the FVF on the total sale, including the postage.
It's ALWAYS buyer beware on any site, but now there's no financial incentive - even a sleazy one - for the seller to shift the costs to shipping charge.
Except for possibly snagging a buyer who doesn't do his homework when comparison shopping. ;-)