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Message:: [QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 7756440, member: 120820"]It seems that Zlobin's practice of immediately discounting everything acts as a hack on the way eBay displays sold prices. Normally a "best offer accepted" sale will display the original asking price with a strike-through and the words "Best offer accepted". You don't know what the accepted offer was, other than it clearly not being the striked-out asking price. With Zlobin's "discounted" prices, a "best offer accepted" sale again shows the original (pre-discount) asking price with a strike-through, but also shows the discounted asking price without a strike-through, and "Best offer accepted", perhaps leading the unaware to assume the "discounted" price is what it actually sold for. This misleading impression is then compounded if you click-thru (from prior sales) to the original listing where it will say "Sold for:<discounted-price>" with no mention at all of "Best offer accepted" ! It seems that eBay is too dumb to strike out both the original price and discounted price in the case where an item was both discounted and then sold for a lesser best offer amount.[/QUOTE]