So far no one has mentioned the most obvious part. This idea of small product price/high shipping price is not new. It was pounded into the ground by sellers and it is a trick that became synonymous (in the eBay meteorite circle) with the fake meteorite sellers passing off hematite as China Nantan Iron.
You would not get much credibility with your buyers doing this. Tom In a message dated 3/29/2010 11:41:05 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Richard, I agree. eBay would catch on to this scheme pretty quick. Best regards, MikeG On 3/29/10, Richard Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually don't sell on ebay, but when I did sell a few items, I put in the > actual estimated cost for shipping the item instead of using ebay's > "calculator". The actual cost was always higher than what their calc came up > with and I got a warning that my price was higher than it should have been. > This "warning" advised that I might lose business because if the higher > cost. > > I'm wondering if ebay has already thought of this and any dealer that has > excessive shipping costs in every auction would get flagged by ebay? > It seems to me this would be pretty easy for them to keep track of and would > probably violate the TOS and eventually get the dealer booted. > > Just curious. > > > -- > Richard Kowalski > Full Moon Photography > IMCA #1081 > > > --- On Sun, 3/28/10, Shawn Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Shawn Alan <[email protected]> >> Subject: [meteorite-list] I thought of an idea on how to get around the >> price increase on eBay on some items >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 10:36 PM >> Hello List >> >> I have seen this done before on eBay with items I have >> bought. The seller would offer the item at buy it now for $2 >> and the shipping would be 15. Now if your a seller and >> offering an item that isn't that much I could see the >> seller charging $15 to $40 for shipping and >> handling/packaging quote un quote, if they know the item >> will go for that rate at buy it now or 5 day auction bid, >> where it would only go for $2 to $5 at closing, which the >> seller would only be charged for the closing cost and not >> the shipping and handling cost (that was a long run on >> sentence). I guess its worth a try on certain items that >> sell for a fixed rate. >> Just a thought >> >> Shawn Alan >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites http://www.galactic-stone.com http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
