If You Think There's Some Junky Coins On Ebay Now, Just Wait

Yeah-like the song says-fees,fees, everywhere fees. (Oh -sorry-it's signs.) Well the signs say fees, fees....

THE FUN STARTS TOMORROW !

Interesting. Unfortunately, idiots who overprice garbage will continue to do so regardless of the fees.

I, for one, applaud the new ebay fee structure. (hold on a bit, don't start throwing rocks at me yet!)
For the longest time now scammers have been using the "insane shipping charge" to circumvent the ebay fee structures. This absolutely hacks me off no end. I've reported dozens, perhaps a hundred, auctions for MASSIVE overcharging on shipping. I've seen shipping fees for a single coin be over $100 and the actual coin start at 99 cents. It's a clear violation of ebay policy to do so.
It's about time this happened!
Many ebayers routinely go a bit high on shipping to cover incidental costs and materials. That's OK, just normal business, you know? But when you are massively overcharging to cheat ebay? No way, and I'm surprised that this took this long to happen.
Massive shipping charges are dishonest, plain and simple, and I will not do business wih anyone who follows this practice.
Yes, it's a gathering of idiots with laughable BIN prices.
I say, hooray! Bully for the old auction-style listings! Let them run five million BIN fantasy price auctions-there's a little tab at the top for "auction only" and it seems bidding has been spirited lately.

Now even worse than before!

They could have implemented a system to red flag any listings with a shipping fee over a certain amount for investigation. The people caught could be warned, then ultimately banned for their nonsense. They took the lazy way that provides more blood sucking, I mean profits. Meanwhile, hurting the honest seller's bottom line.

It doesn't really affect me as a coin buyer. I most always use detailed searches with no BIN listings, that include grade designations. If a listing doesn't have a detailed hi res picture, I'm not going to look at the coin anyway. After a while, you notice which sellers always have quality material on a regular basis.

Now, as a collector who occasionally sells duplicates and unwanted material from time to time, this is a godsend. Every coin I've ever sold comes with two gigantic up-close photos. It just takes all the guesswork out of what you are buying. It will be nice not to have to start every auction at $1 (when I know the coin will go for more than $20) just to avoid fees.

One more thing - using Paypal to print shipping labels, any coin can be sent with a tracking number first class for around $1.75 + the cost of a bubble mailer. Not bad.