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| Chris56000:
Hi! Virtually ANY semiconductor device eBay listing from China (I'm not sure they even deserve spelling with a capital "C" if they've all started this game!) has, in about the last two months or so, suddenly got appended "+£480.00 postage" after the price – is this nonsense something recently done by the Chinese Government, or every known seller trying to make a killing on the component shortage? Chris Williams |
| Stray Electron:
Ebay sellers have been playing this game for YEARS! List an item cheaply but then charge an arm and a leg for shipping and hope that the greed fueled buyers buy it without looking at the shipping costs. Ebay finally made a policy against this at least 6 to 8 years ago and you can (or could?) use their reporting systems to report sellers that charged "excessive shipping". But I've noticed that E-bay will not kick any sellers in China off or even take down their auctions, even with MANY repeated complaints. My recommendation is to make a list of the sellers that use this practice and then use E-bay's Advanced Search and add all of those sellers to the "Do not show me items from this seller" list. |
| Chris56000:
I don't think I'd ever live long enough, because of the sheer number of them at it, and it does all seem to have started all at the same time right across the board! – but every listing I see with this "£480" appended I'll report the listing for "Price gouging!" Chris Williams . |
| Benta:
I don't think it's a scam. It's a way of saying "we do not ship to the UK, it's too much hassle". The rest of the analysis is up to you. |
| Stray Electron:
From what I can see most of China's Ebay sellers appear to be the same person, or maybe a group of people working out of one sweat shop, in China. Nearly all of the listings for most items are exactly the same and only the seller's name and their asking price (and now the shipping price!) seems to change. |
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