I get ridiculously good deals on books but they rape you with shipping costs and half the time it's barely justified.

Ebay should seriously step in and do something about highway robbery regarding shipping charges.

Got a Garmin GPSMap60csx for about €100-200 cheaper than I could have gotten it here. It was genuine, the seller sold nothing but GPS units, and whats more he promised to pay import duty if I got hit with that.

Great stuff.

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I thought i was getting a good deal on some smoked bumper and fender lights for my car but shipping was fucking outrageous. I think it cost more than the actual lights and it probably only cost a few bucks to ship, it wasnt even 1lb.

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All these excessive shipping charges can be reported, you know? If the book is $5 and shipping is $15 - that's a reportable offense.

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Originally posted by emc^2 All these excessive shipping charges can be reported, you know? If the book is $5 and shipping is $15 - that's a reportable offense.

people are doing that now because ebay is assraping people on the final value fees for their auctions. It works out much better for the seller if you put the item at $1 with $10 shipping than if you put it for $7 with $4 shipping since final value fees are only charged on the sale price of the item not on the shipping.

when you buy shit on ebay now you need to pay attention to the shipped price and understand what is going on there

eBay used to be awesome, but now it's mostly just an outlet for people to sell crappy merchandise with extreme shipping rates. i can't even justify searching for stuff on there because there's so much crap to sort through, unless it's something rare or hard to find... then eBay can be great. i think the last thing i bought on there was the limited edition clear blue Blue Fear vinyl, which cost me about $20 (incl shipping from the UK).

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I too, got vinyl. T'was a double vinyl of Oliver Lieb - Lost Vagueness

sealed Shure e2c earbuds for $30

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these babies are going to be supplying the fuel/air mixture to the engine thats going in my current project

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Originally posted by Wicked Neo these babies are going to be supplying the fuel/air mixture to the engine thats going in my current project

Is it a giant tarantula-bot that shoots lasers?

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gotta admire one of the remaining and strangely still legal GLOBAL monopolies. Google should be spending that money they're using on a crowded cell phone market to create an auction site. Can you imagine the possiblities? You're searching for something and can't find it in the auction and here you have the link to someone selling the stuff from their website. Revenue stream either way - click or buy.

I can't understand why they haven't jumped on that yet. The brand is there, the money is there, the payment system is even in place... and the DEMAND/MARKET IS THERE! What else do they need? Ebay needs a serious competitor, IMHO. People would be switching in droves, I think. Yet Goog made no move. strange.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

--Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)