> It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it.

Before that policy, you had a bunch of items listed for $1 + $60 "shipping" to dodge fees. I'll take the current structure over that.

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hooch 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Making you pay ~12% fee on foreign country taxes collected by eBay, when those taxes can’t be gamed like postage was, is a bridge too far.

I used to offer listings to the world, now I just add Japan for the odd rare item.

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firmretention 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, now you pay $30 in real shipping to have everything routed through ebay's hub and have your package take three times long to get there.

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account42 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You still get suspicious shipping prices just not as extreme perhaps. For a platform like eBay where I am less likely to buy multiple different items from one seller and that is integrated internationally, the list price should just include shipping (and import fees!) anyway to make comparisons easier.

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asdff 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Stuff is still getting listed like that on ebay.

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kube-system 2 days ago | parent [-]

I use ebay heavily and I don't see it anymore, except for things that look like typos or people who clearly just don't know how to use ebay. There's no advantage to doing so because sorting/filtering includes shipping.

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account42 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sorting isn't strict (or perhaps affected by paid placements?) so buyers still have to look at the prices to see which item is actually the cheapest.

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kube-system a day ago | parent [-]

Sorting is strict when you select "Price + Shipping: lowest first", for the main results. It's been that way since they started adding fees to shipping.

	▲	account42 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No it isn't.

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asdff 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I still see it. Idk what the seller is thinking but I’m guessing they aren’t too smart.

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aucisson_masque 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's interesting, at least it's a reason to put tax on delivery method.