If you disclose, it makes it ok?

[camrok]

Exact title....
Seiko Active Matrix EPD.e-Ink.The transport is expensive(700USD)!!!

[tritto]

There was an article somewhere on these this week. They're bloody expensive aren't they? For $700 I'd expect someone to fly across the country and deliver it to my door on a velvet pillow.

[akable]

The response to the first question is interesting, $800 each way?? Maybe you are paying for flights and hand delivery. 

I assume this pricing structure is because eBay charges less commission on the postage costs or something similar?

They are nice watches, and mine has got a lot of wear but for not much more than this asking price you can get a NOS one on YJ.

[tritto]

I think eBay charges the same % rate on both the cost of the item and postage. It used to be the case that you'd see underpriced items with inflated postage because eBay didn't charge fees on postage, but that changed a few years ago. I think in this case the seller is hoping the buyer will bite before noticing the exorbitant postage.

[akable]

If the fees are the same then it really does not make any sense. At least they are very up front about it and I guess the buyer will have no comeback on that one.

I guess you are right and the seller is just hoping that people do not notice this. Maybe in a mobile app it is not as obvious??

The watch has had a lot of use looking at the bracelet shots. Nothing really surprises me on the bay now, there are so many crazy deals where they must just be hoping for someone to be browsing after quite a few drinks and not read or look at the images.

[rossr]

I notice the seller has a couple more watches with US$1500 postage.

[Rod]

One way to get around Ebay selling fees! only pay the fee on the $100 sale price

[Adrian-VTA]

They changed that recently and now take a bite out of the postage if I recall the policy change correctly...to deal with guys like this.

Sept 18, 2016 2:55:41 GMT -8 Rod said:

One way to get around Ebay selling fees! only pay the fee on the $100 sale price

[Deleted]

Money laundering...it's just like the real estate market here in Vancouver. Lots of Chinese crime money being dumped in real estate making it untraceable.

[Adrian-VTA]

It's the same anywhere. Same deal here.

They will have an economic crash and then some other country will make zillions and dislodge the Chinese investors.

Here in the 60's and 70's it was the British invasion
In the 80's it was the US invasion
In the 90's it was the Japanese invasion
Now we have the Chinese invasion
Who's next?

Sept 18, 2016 20:45:28 GMT -8 @penguinbce said:

Money laundering...it's just like the real estate market here in Vancouver. Lots of Chinese crime money being dumped in real estate making it untraceable.

[tritto]

Ask Pauline. She has an opinion on that!

[Adrian-VTA]

I don't like Pauline. I think she's a bogan. That said, I think it's important to represent both sides of the argument, left and right. The media has a love affair with the left, so we only hear the stories about how nasty the right is.

On another note...Hinch is relevant again? What year is it?

Sept 18, 2016 22:30:59 GMT -8 tritto said:

Ask Pauline. She has an opinion on that!

[tritto]

Sept 18, 2016 23:45:28 GMT -8 Adrian-VTA said:

I don't like Pauline. I think she's a bogan. That said, I think it's important to represent both sides of the argument, left and right. The media has a love affair with the left, so we only hear the stories about how nasty the right is.

On another note...Hinch is relevant again? What year is it?

Sept 18, 2016 22:30:59 GMT -8 tritto said:

Ask Pauline. She has an opinion on that!

It's the 1990s all over again.