Quote Originally Posted by Magpie View Post
Certainly, there were, and still are, plenty of people who overcharge on shipping. I am starting to rebuild my collection now, and spotted something I had to have, but it was sporting a 15 dollar shipping fee for first class mail
Outrageous! But I simply deducted that much money from what I was willing to bid on it. Plain and simple.

Dont be a sucker!
There is still an incentive for sellers to overcharge for shipping, and that is to rip you off as a customer if there isn't a return policy where a seller pays for return shipping.

That's happened to me a couple of times. You get a refund when an item is poorly described and the seller agrees to take it back, but the shipping is set up to discourage you from even thinking about it because in the end you'll still be out a lot of coin and have nothing to show.

The higher ebay's fees get, the less I use it. I would sooner see them put some of that in the listing fee so that items actually sell instead of just sitting on there and rotating, but they know they're looking to keep gobs of listings to make it look like there's more good stuff there than there really is.

You either have to run into a new BIN listing that's low or get something on a tuesday at 2 am, something that was partially mislabeled. Otherwise, there aren't many deals to be had there.