This one does sound fishy. But I've had a few offers above the starting
price when it was an item that was a collectible and the buyer knew my
listed price was a below market rate. However, none of my scenarios was
for as high an offer as yours. I li...
Could you just list is as a standard non-offer auction and let eBay
handle being the intermediary for the payment, where the buyer does have
to pay before eBay clears you to ship?
You're correct. eBay includes the shipping in the commission fee
calculation because people were cheating them out of a fair commission
by listing for a dollar then adding a $20 shipping cost, which was
bogus. However, since that time, eBay now often...
