For a long time, ebay only sorted on item price. The practice of charging $0.99 with $65 shipping ensured that those items were sorted on top. For that reason, I intentionally refuse to buy from sellers that still use it. Now that they sort on total (shipped) price, the practice has declined somewhat, but it's still a dishonest practice and I still avoid those sellers. FWIW, there's a difference between increasing your shipping price to recoup legit fees and what those scumbags were/are doing--circumventing FVF.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Alternative Selling Sites > > > >Yes, you do come across that on Ebay, but virtually nobody falls for > >it. Then again, if the total price is about right for the item, what's > >the big deal? > > EXCEPT to Ebay who loose on fees. It's there ball and trying to work around > their fees is going to result in these sorts of changes. > >
