Perhaps they need the higher price on eBay to cover the eBay
commission. But 10% is such overkill. These are the kind of
folk who want to make a buck at every turn.
Regards,
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Tonghang Zhou ("Zhou" is pronounced like Joe)
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Doug Franklin wrote:
> Howdy, folks,
>
> Well, I've been keeping an eye on ebay for a Nikon Coolscan IV film
> scanner for a week or so. I've noticed a couple of auctions for them
> that start at US$ 745 and have a BIN of the same amount, and they're
> from the same seller, a commercial interest. An example of one of
> these auctions that's running now is at
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1318910958
>
> When I noticed it was a commercial interest, I decided to bop on over
> to their Web site and check the price there. The scanner within their
> site is at
>
> http://www.hotbuyselectronics.com/item_detail.asp?item_id=3128
>
> As you can see (if you follow both links) they offer the same scanner
> for just below US$ 680 on their web site ... you pay a 10% premium for
> ordering it from them over ebay. Shipping through the web site is over
> US$ 23 for "normal" shipment. The ebay ad says "email me for actual
> shipping charges".
>
> TTYL, DougF
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