[CR] WAS Ebay outing for all the Masi-issimos!, Now Ebay Shipping Cost Trend

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From: <Bikerdaver@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:27:06 EDT
To: greg@nofatcomm.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR] WAS Ebay outing for all the Masi-issimos!, Now Ebay Shipping Cost Trend

I have noticed an odd trend and was wondering if others had similar observations: Some ebay sellers charge not by what the actual weight of the item is, but rather what the price of the item is. And I am not talking about shipping insurance charges either.

I am not sure this makes much sense to me as a buyer or a seller. I have always learned that you set an item's value into the price of the item itself rather than try and jack up the price of the shipping. Maybe they teach something different these days, but I am not sure this trend is particular to folks just out of high school either.

Then again, maybe I am just behind the times. Does anybody on this list endorse this method as a standard way of operating? I know that folks like BC and Matteo don't, so I assume they went to the same school as myself. Any other
thoughts?
cheers-
Dave Anderson
Cut Bank MT