ebay fee hikes and stuff

At 9:44 AM -0500 3/4/08, Jason McBrien wrote: People jack the shipping & handling fee to cover the ebay fee's. Buyers don't buy because of insane shipping & handling fee's. Savvy buyers of books can sometimes go to the publisher and get "rare out of print" books far cheaper than eBay. Insane eBay fee's keep sellers from putting stuff on eBay. These sum up just some of the issues I've seen in the past few years with eBay. The frustrating thing is, I recently invested in 3 extra copies of a book that is quite literally "rare and out of print" even though it came out a few months ago. My intention is to sell the copies on eBay once the price goes up a bit more. Another book I was interested in recently was "rare and out of print" simply on pre-orders, you don't want to know what it's going for on eBay, I was lucky enough to get a copy from Barnes & Nobles online. I'm not sure if I have a point with that last paragraph. If I do it is that eBay, Amazon.com, and the other online book selling places have done insane things to the price of books. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |