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Originally Posted by shortysben

Well, I know why sellers do this ^^^.

Here is the breakdown

if you have item A on ebay for

10$ + 3$ shipping, for total of 13$ you have to pay ebay 9%, or .90

Whereas

if you have item B on ebay for

3$ + 10$ shipping, for total of 13$ you have to pay ebay 9% or .27

A little tweaking of the shipping goes a long way if you are an ebay income only person...its a nice way to stay away from ebay fees, because they cant charge ebay fees on what you charge to people to ship...

Thats why you will see the same seller has the same item, just reversed amounts for the actual price of the item, and what they charge for shipping...either way the seller sells the item for the same amount, its just the difference in what ebay takes from the item...

This is inaccurate. Ebay charges you a final value fee based on a percentage on both the item price AND the shipping. This was implemented to keep people from charging .99 for an item, paying only 7 cents in ebay fees and then make $15 in profit off of shipping. Electronics is 7%, clothing is 10%, video games/movies/books is 13%, and everything else is 11%. So if the item is an action figure for 10, the shipping is 3, you pay them 11%, or roughly $1.40. It's the same regardless of how you flip the shipping and price.

The reason sellers show a low price and high shipping is because when you search under 'best match', the shipping price isn't always shown below the item price, which makes the item look very cheap.