Gunner wrote:

Ebay is losing its luster, because of the greed of many sellers.

Im speaking of outragious shipping and handling fees.
Oh yeah, these guys who sell some oddball item for $0.99, but they have
a $49 shipping fee on a 5 Oz item. Very strange, but it is because eBay
charges you to put a reserve price on an auction, and the eBay sale
price fee is based on the SALE price, not counting the shipping. So,
you make the shipping REAL high, and you are basically cheating eBay out
of most of the value of the whole transaction. I'm surprised they
haven't gotten on top of this, but it may be they decided it was
impossible to police entirely electronically. Ie, they don't know how
much something weighs, so their computers can't tell what a reasonable
shipping price would be.

Jon