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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by ryandrake on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:50AM (#17960202)
Most eBay sellers also provide free shipping, regardless of your order size, and it’s often faster than Amazon’s free shipping. If you’re looking for something relatively common, you can filter eBay results by distance to your home, and sometimes you can get your item next day for free shipping. eBay is surprisingly good as a buyer.

Understood, however, that as a seller eBay is a pretty tough partner.

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by astura on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:07PM (#17960981)
>Most eBay sellers also provide free shipping, regardless of your order size

Quite a while ago eBay switched to charging final value fees on shipping. Previous to that people would list items for $.01 plus $8 shipping, which was pretty obnoxious to weed through. With that change it ended up making sense for eBay sellers to just bundle the cost of shipping into the price, which ends up usually being a better experience for the customer, because they know what they are going to pay right away.

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