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“There’s no such thing as free shipping.”

You can set your watch by it. Every time there’s a post about eBay that mentions “free shipping” somewhere in it and you get some clown who says one of the following two things: “There’s no such thing as free shipping!” or the hilariously moronic “I went to the post office and asked for the [...]

Case Study: Item Descriptions and WARNINGS!! (from Mr. The Whine Seller)

Steve, here, writing for The Whine Seller… I’ve been performing a lot of computer repairs lately for family members and this time around, I had to replace the power inverter for a laptop screen’s backlight. A brand new part would have set me back about $45, so I went straight to eBay. Bingo. $4.99 with [...]

Remember that PayPal plugin no one was using? Yeah, eBay killed it.

Back in 2007, PayPal introduced a plugin that was supposed to allow you to use PayPal even on sites that didn’t accept it as a payment method. If a site didn’t accept PayPal, the plugin would generate a temporary number to allow you to check-out through Mastercard. I thought it was a great idea but, [...]

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