On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:29:30 GMT, Joe Barta wrote:

Brian Henderson wrote:
eBay, of course, who
is paying for the whole auction system, has every right to stomp
on this practice, and they should do so. There is a cost to using
the eBay auction site and being dishonest to make an additional
profit that you are not entitled to should not be permitted.

Someone mentioned that there is no way ebay could keep an eye on all
it's auctions to prevent such a thing from occuring. But it seems to
me that it should be fairly simple to automate and report such things
on their end.

That was actually me who said that.

And there are many items that legitimately have a high shipping cost,
so just killing all auctions with a high cost doesn't make much sense.
Does eBay require people to disclose shipping costs up front? I know
most people list them, but is it a hard rule?