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Originally Posted by thecatspajamas
What little enforcement they did on that pretty much went out the window when they started charging the same fees on shipping as they do on the item price itself. Before they changed, sellers would use high shipping / low item prices to try and skirt paying fees, so eBay had some incentive to put a stop to such things. Now that they just charge a fee on everything, the monetary incentive to enforce isn't there.
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It's funny, Ebay's fees on Shipping are actually a higher % for many sellers then it is for the actual item they are selling, add to that Paypal also gets a piece of shipping which most people take for granted. Makes it hard to break even on S&H costs without feeling like you're gouging people.
Ebay claimed they did this to keep shipping prices down. All it did was make people up their BIN prices on Free Shipping items, and charge more for S&H in auctions so they could recoup the difference.
There really is no reason to charge $40 shipping on a card unless it's super expensive and it's going towards insurance. As a seller you may end up paying more in fees then you would with a higher price and lower shipping cost.
Either it's a typo, or they're trying to get unsuspecting people to pull the trigger on a lower priced item. Not many people left who aren't savvy enough to at least check the shipping cost before they pull the trigger on an item nowadays.