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Re: Proportion of bad bidders on eBay?
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:47:11 GMT
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Larry P wrote:
> I had one bidder whinge about fixed shipping charges being too high, and
> some other misc whinges from other bidders lead me to believe that there
> is a non zero fraction of bidders that don't read the listings very
> carefully.
> Bidders like that may well be more likely to renege on someone across
> the pond after they realise what the shipping is going to be.
You're certainly right about people not reading the listings carefully
:-)
All my deadbeats have been N American and I do quite a lot of
international orders - I encourage them. Just worked it out... 21%
non-USA so far this year. It may well be though that non-US
international bidders are far more aware of shipping costs than USA'ers
bidding on lots elsewhere in the world.
Kevin
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