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On eBay for certain scammy sellers, but not as a general rule. And on Amazon, certainly not for items sold by Amazon or part of Prime. Again, only scammy third
by crazygringo 12d ago
On eBay for certain scammy sellers, but not as a general rule.
And on Amazon, certainly not for items sold by Amazon or part of Prime. Again, only scammy third-party sellers.
- keeda 12d agoI guess by definition if they’re doing such things they’re scammy… and aren’t 3rd party sellers the biggest contingent of sellers on Amazon? I mean, I found such listings for almost all of the things I recently shopped for, including water bottles, cooking appliances, sports shorts, coffee cups, camping chairs, usb drives, video cables, beach sandals, winter wear, multivitamin supplements… Not quite a scientific study, but I always sort by cheapest just to check and see this pattern every time. The distinction you make is technically correct, but a does not lessen the scale at which it is happening.
- crazygringo 10d agoI buy a lot of stuff on Amazon, and 99.9% of it has free shipping. I've had to pay a shipping fee maybe 3 times over the past decade, if I'm guessing? Even if there are tons of scammy expensive-shipping listings, if people are almost never buying them and they almost never get surfaced in search results, it doesn't matter. But I've also never even tried sorting by cheapest, because default sorting by relevance has always worked for me.