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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1947774, member: 31533&quot;]Yes, that is part of ebay&#039;s vision from what I can see: get all sellers to offer free shipping. That way the price they bid is the price that is paid and buyers are &#039;more likely&#039; to want to buy, and the buyers also then perceive a value added in that the seller is paying their shipping fees (including materials costs, time and gas/other expenses to get the package delivered) or the seller is having to &#039;eat&#039; the costs out of the purchase price so that either way the buyer is &#039;the winner&#039;. What is not seen is that prices that start at 1 cent on items will have to either go away or any seller that starts at that amount will have to dump the sale anytime it goes south on him (i.e., the price doesn&#039;t go up enough to make completing the sale profitable to the seller, and incorporate what parts ebay and paypal, etc take from the sale). Ebay has gone over from a seller&#039;s market, offering a huge opportunity for nearly anyone to sell just about anything to forcing sellers to either go mainstream for the most part to be able to compete with the big boys of ebay (power sellers) to primarily power sellers who are essentially offering what Amazon does to buyers but without ebay having warehousing costs. Ebay is just about another Amazon but in different clothes. Underneath it all there is a lot that is the same. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t mind as a buyer, as buying with this mode has made it more mainline and given confidence that I won&#039;t be &#039;had&#039; on most purchases I do. But I rarely buy coins on ebay as there are too many people selling things in ways that portray the coin (and note) as real or unaltered when in fact they are either not real or altered or something, and ebay doesn&#039;t have great practices in place to stop those people. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, if I was running a huge company that wanted to make the best profit for me and the better mode for that was to be buyer driven and force sellers to give up their profits or meet certain other requirements as in power selling to be able to clear profits from selling on the company&#039;s turf, then perhaps I would let this happen too. Heck, messing with the seller and the seller&#039;s chances of profiting or increasing their profits is what is keeping people shopping at WalMart. The people shopping there don&#039;t care that their choices of what to buy have diminished and the shoppers there don&#039;t care that the people providing the goods that WalMart sells sometimes only clear a penny or two profit per item sold, and that WalMart clears many more times than that on each item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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