Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage
by grapeshot on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @03:23PM
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I don't pay for Amazon Prime, so between shipping and sales tax it often makes financial sense for me to buy a product from an eBay seller over Amazon even at a higher price. You'd think Amazon would want to stop this by banning Prime accounts used to ship to too many different addresses or something.
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Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage
by ikeboy on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @03:49PM
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They don't allow Prime accounts used for resale.
Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage
by aribtrageur2718 on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:41PM
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They shut them down once caught, and then it's easy to open another account and pay for prime all over again. There are some seriously big sellers who do this: http://www.ebay.com/usr/working*hard
You can search on ebay for "2 day shipping" and almost all of them are people doing this