[ARC5] Dynamotor on ebay (now somewhat OT)

[WA5CAB--- via ARC5]

And there is a more or less equivalent page listing acceptable reasons for 
a buyer to retract a bid before the auction actually ends.  Both are 
probably subject to abuse but in 15+years and $380,000+ sales we've never seen any 
evidence of eBay making any attempt to prove that either buyers or sellers 
lied about the reasons that they chose.  Once an auction ends with at least 
one bid, the situation is different.  eBay will take action against a seller 
for not shipping or a buyer for not paying.  Here, since 2008, the system is 
pretty clearly biased against the seller. 

To return somewhat to the original subject of Command Set dynamotor prices 
and shipping costs, the average retail price for garden variety (meaning 
relatively plentiful) receiver grade dynamotors has been somewhere around 
$30-$40 for about the past decade or so.  And $10 shipping (if you shipped a 
hundred of them to random buyers) is probably the average USPS cost this year.  
The actual dollar range is about $6 -$12 but zone charts are more or less 
concentric circles so the number of potential buyers increases more or less as 
the square of the distance.  UPS and FedEx are both about 40-50% higher 
except for high volume shippers (which excludes all of us here).

In a message dated 03/08/2015 22:54:23 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ianmwilson73 at gmail.com writes: 
> That contract is with eBay, not bidders. Here is the eBay help page on 
> how
> to end an auction early; clearly not a 'forbidden' event:
> 
> http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/end_early.html
> 
> 
> 73, ian K3IMW