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Re: ebay rant
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lugnet.market.auction
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Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:07:19 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> What's your pet ebay hate?
After running though all your numbered points, I forgot to answer this! :-)
Inflated "shipping and handling" fees. Charging 10 bucks to ship something
Priority mail that I've shipped for $3.95. I understand that people make
guesstimates on shipping, but what I'm talking about are calculated ways of
weasling more profit.
And let me echo others' annoyance with reserve prices. You can make a bid,
not have it meet the reserve, but since it isn't your max bid, you don't
have any idea if it may later meet the reserve. I feel like I'm being
jerked around. I will only bid on these as a last minute vulture.
Bruce
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| I hate inflated shipping and handling charges too. I won a Lego sith infiltrator in an auction for really cheap, and I was pleased, until I found out I had to pay $10 US to have it shipped to me, which including 'handling'. I was really surprised (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| Just wanted to moan about ebay. Too many rubbish auctions getting in the way Besides the obvious con artists, things I dont like 1. ridiculous start price. It's like setting a reserve, but without incurring a penalty if no one bids, as I understand (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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