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Originally Posted by Haesslich
Note also that PayPal and eBay buyer protection is waived if you send money with the 'gift' option, the way a lot of these sellers ask you to do. It also stops PP from getting their cut of the sale in service fees. Also the same reason you saw deeply discounted items with shipping and handling fees equal to the retail cost of said item - those were non-refundable and didn't count towards the eBay seller fees.
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eBay has changed their rules to include taking a % fee from both the winning price and shipping cost now so you don't really benefit from $0.99 auctions with $100 shipping costs anymore.