Some do charge a handling fee to make up for an auction.
In some cases it's also to get around the ebay system of paying
seller fees.
I knew of a dealer that would sell commons very cheap, say '63 topps at a $1 in NM condition. But on the page it would state a $4 handling fee for a $5 total.
So from a buyers perspective it all comes out the same but the dealer makes more money off of it since he didn't have to pay as much to ebay in fees.
Ebay was/is trying to crack down on this.
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