And if you mark up the card for the price of shipping, then your card is less likely to sell and you have eliminated more "good deals" on Ebay.
For example there used to be some people that sold low grade 1952 Bowman cards for $1-2 each with free shipping.
Now just to cover the tracking/shipping requirement, they need to charge $2.67 (that very popular shipping fee on Ebay).
So the sellers of those cards are now less likely to get sales (unless they have a bunch and can bundle a package together to reduce shipping). And the buyers are screwed because they have to buy more or not buy the card at the cheap price.
Granted, this makes little difference for high end items.
Maybe Ebay gains though from not having to process all these small transaction (but I doubt it - because I bet they make money on every deal).
Cheers,
Patrick
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