I'm curious. Can a seller do this to side step limits?

[pauyo_43]

I was just checking new jewelry listings out and I came across a seller that had a Bin price of $120.00 but a shipping charge of $3600.  I  was certainly curious so I contacted the seller and he said because he's a new seller, he has limits on how much he can sell, so he figured out this way to bypass the limitations to sell his items. What he is selling is top notch designer items; Cartier, Tiffany, etc. He's from Albania, so I'm not sure how many US citizens would trust shipping prices like that.

Maybe I should be asking customer service, but I'm wondering if any of you have come across this before? Can this actually work?

[emerald40]

Report him.

Ebay takes these kinds of reports which affect them, seriously.

I have seen it but it is usually sellers who are trying to avoid fees.

[divwido]

Will it work?  Yes, if someone will pay that money.

But he still owes 10% of that up to the limit.

[monster-deals]

The joke is on that seller, they still have to pay the same fees.

They just aren't getting away with anything...in fact if someone files a SNAD they are absolute and total toast.

[nobody*s_perfect]

If the item has been listed, then clearly his strategy has worked.  It's not fee avoidance, but it is a way to get around his listing limits, which are based on the items' listed prices without shipping.   I suspect that nobody will be interested in his deal.

[pauyo_43]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

If the item has been listed, then clearly his strategy has worked.  It's not fee avoidance, but it is a way to get around his listing limits, which are based on the items' listed prices without shipping.   I suspect that nobody will be interested in his deal.

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Interestingly, he has had some sales, but I'm not sure they are the same type of quality that he's trying t push. But  I was thinking that he was getting around his limitations this way....although not the fees. Pretty sketchy.

[gramophone-georg]

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@emerald40 wrote:

Report him.

Ebay takes these kinds of reports which affect them, seriously.

I have seen it but it is usually sellers who are trying to avoid fees.

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That was before eBay started charging fees on shipping.

Now sellers do this to get around selling limits. Shipping charges don't count as dollars towards the selling limit. eBay doesn't seem to be doing much about this like they did before because they are still getting paid. In fact, from what I have seen penalties for this are about as severe as they are for buyers who retract bids without a valid reason.

[southern*sweet*tea]

Can they do it?  Yes

Are they supposed to do it? No

Do I see it ending well for the seller? No

[emerald40]

So circumventing ebay's rules are only harmful some of the time and in certain situations unbeknown to the common ebyer?

[angbru_26]

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@pauyo_43 wrote:

I was just checking new jewelry listings out and I came across a seller that had a Bin price of $120.00 but a shipping charge of $3600.  I  was certainly curious so I contacted the seller and he said because he's a new seller, he has limits on how much he can sell, so he figured out this way to bypass the limitations to sell his items. What he is selling is top notch designer items; Cartier, Tiffany, etc. He's from Albania, so I'm not sure how many US citizens would trust shipping prices like that.

Maybe I should be asking customer service, but I'm wondering if any of you have come across this before? Can this actually work?

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I'm betting it's all fake and the items that have sold never got paid for

[muttlymob]

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@angbru_26 wrote:

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@pauyo_43 wrote:

I was just checking new jewelry listings out and I came across a seller that had a Bin price of $120.00 but a shipping charge of $3600.  I  was certainly curious so I contacted the seller and he said because he's a new seller, he has limits on how much he can sell, so he figured out this way to bypass the limitations to sell his items. What he is selling is top notch designer items; Cartier, Tiffany, etc. He's from Albania, so I'm not sure how many US citizens would trust shipping prices like that.

Maybe I should be asking customer service, but I'm wondering if any of you have come across this before? Can this actually work?

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I'm betting it's all fake and the items that have sold never got paid for

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Ditto.

He's from Albania, so I'm not sure how many US citizens would trust shipping prices like the authenticity of that.

There, fixed it for the OP.

[reallynicestamps]

My first thought was that the seller missed inserting the decimal point and meant to have a shipping charge of $36.00.

If the item did sell, he would be paying a Final Value Fee of 10% on both the selling price and the shipping price, so he would not be circumventing eBay fees.

When you added:

so he figured out this way to bypass the limitations to sell his items.

it becomes obvious that he was attempting to cheat eBay, who try to protect new sellers by restricting the amount they are allowed to sell (or lose to scammers) as well as buyers who fall for 'take the money and run' scams*.

What he is selling is top notch designer items; Cartier, Tiffany, etc.

The hell he is.

If he will cheat eBay (or customs or the Post Office) there is no reason to believe him about anything.

*EBay puts a Hold on customer payments of up to 21 days to new sellers as a Buyer Protection, and also to protect themselves from having to refund misled buyers from their own pocket.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@reallynicestamps wrote: ...  EBay puts a Hold on customer payments of up to 21 days to new sellers ....

If he's a really new seller, he might not know that yet.

[gramophone-georg]

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@emerald40 wrote:

So circumventing ebay's rules are only harmful some of the time and in certain situations unbeknown to the common ebyer?

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All I can say to that is this:

How many times has a seller shown up in here to say that his listing violating the rules was pulled and he got a policy violation, complaining that "but there are 500 other listings just like mine that aren't getting pulled!"?

On eBay, everybody is equal, but some seem more equal than others.

[lintbrush*]

And imagine if you got it but decided it wasn't for you.  

Seller only has to refund item price if shipping was charge seperately.

No thank you.