11 May
2010
11 May
'10
11:42 a.m.
The one thing that's really put me off of buying anything on eBay (unless it's
something I REALLY want) are the shipping and handling charges. They are automatically
calculated these days by eBay, and they always seem ridiculously high.
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From: Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com>
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Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 12:37:33 PM
Subject: RE: Nintendo game cartridge on Ebay
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Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9:41 AM
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Subject: Re: Nintendo game cartridge on Ebay
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From: <afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: Nintendo game cartridge on Ebay
In addition to your astute observation: it also defeats the self-regulating efforts of a
community such as ours, to avoid getting into bidding wars with each other that
artificially inflate prices (and boost ePay fees). Not that I'm cynical.... -- Ian
I dunno why they made bidding anonymous, it's much harder to spot (as
a bidder), if the thing is being artificallay inflated etc.
Cheers.
Phill.
To help shill bidders drive up the price so ebay gets more in fees
maybe?