Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage
by Grishnakh on Thursday July 28, 2016 @12:11PM
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Amazon is just as bad, if not worse. (Not trying to excuse Ebay here.) I'll frequently do a search on Amazon and see some ultra-low price on something, then click on that to see the product. Half the time, the product page will have a bunch of different options, and the ones you want all cost far more, and only the ugly pink one is cheap, or the one in extra-extra-small. Or sometimes, I won't even be able to find the one at that ultra-low advertised price. Or it'll be in the "other sellers" section, along with a gigantic shipping fee.
So if your search is ordered by price, it will show their listing first when in reality, the actual item you're looking for is much more expensive.
I have no idea why ebay allows this to happen.