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eBay Delivery Madness


When you look around eBay, you often see some good deals. Then you look at the delivery price and realize where the seller is really making their money. It's become quite normal to see items priced cheaply with insane delivery prices. A small £2 gadget with a £20 delivery charge is, really, a £20 gadget with £2 delivery, except that the 'false' data makes eBay's search features useless.

Here's one of the worst offenders I've found while looking for some Ultimate Ears earphones on eBay:

Ebaycraziness

£50 delivery! Admittedly these sell for £160+ in the UK, but still..




April 27, 2006 | Posted by peter | Comments (2)
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I've noticed that a lot too. I wonder if it's because ebay take a percentage from the final sale price, but nothing from postage.

Posted by: MB at April 27, 2006 07:21 PM

Yep, its totally true. Its a sneaky way of sellers getting around paying Ebay fees. Really tick's me off though.

Posted by: Jonathan at April 28, 2006 09:02 AM

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