On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 23:34:46 -0300, Mayayana
wrote:

| Ebay's Chinese representation is nowhere near the
| leeway Amazon contracts as the middleman jobber.

Amazon over Ebay any day of the week.

Other way around, perhaps not exactly just about everyday, but
worthwhile, in any event, as long as merchandise can be further
established, which can be tricky. To wit -- I've run both Ebay/Amazon
tabbed against one another, temporarily gathering to establish an
average skew elsewhere an idea for a product's national prices,
perhaps ancillary information for brand divergences. Right-o,
thereupon I know what and why I want to drop some money from my hot,
hot hands.

Surprise. An independent browser, I have not installed physically
within the OS, is hacked and "locked down" and I'm unable to delete to
reinstall it -- the whole purpose in the first place -- "Erase All
Trace". . . Supercookies, or whatever who the hell knows. I have to
reboot and manually, if additionally needed, pull the pieces for a
quarantine burn-pit.

Like I said, they're nasty, between merchants competing on Amazon and
Ebay, with Amazon, depending on the product/instance, likely to be the
one who's priced double for exactly your very fine assessment, indeed.

I mean within reason, doing it over and over within experience within
a wide range of products. The most obvious in mind, in this instance,
is redoing all the plumbing interconnects between supply pipes and
fixtures -- Amazon would be a joke, tempting unqualifiedly say from
what Ebay offered, by actual plumber supply houses with parts on
prices exactly suited my expectations. Needless to say at two, three
times higher from overall an expectedly higher Amazon mark-up;- CEO,
Amazon's Bozo didn't retire filthy rich for nothing.

The lock-up incident, I can't recall offhand the item upon a
determination, when I went to dis-install the browser and trace
history, finding I'd been compromised, before ordering. To be
fairer, perhaps not most generically to say, the type of product may
be easier to respectively associate. Just not always, so as a rule I
bring up both of them to make comparisons.

With a high-end Japanese solar watch with low-frequency radio
receiver, it took repeated attempts over days, perhaps by third-day's,
when I'd given up hope, at the last moment of an alternative lower
quality item, within the shopping cart, when Amazon, watching and
evidently following, pulled in a new and prior unlisted merchant with
half the price of Ebay's or hitherto their other price listings.

I bought it and, the following day still curious, went back to attempt
and track what had happened. The merchant was gone and the watch was
listed for twice my price again.

Last but not reiteratively least is Chinese merchants. They're
operating at 90-days, within a selfsame interest credit cards disallow
disputes (more in likelihood to exclude high-end items, such as my
watch - they "know better" than sell without premium shippage). Which
the Emperor of Ebay has given his Divine Blessing, along with recent
Ebay closure upon recourse of consumer disputes. All of which, Amazon
simply doesn't speak under such terms of parlance -- In Chinese
pronunciation it's -- Watch Your Ass, Bitch!

Hate to say it, I've bought a ton of goods from China, by far and many
the good experiences. Damn right I hate to because I got stiffed over
$3/US for 10 keyboard assembly switches. Even after the *******
messaged me that, just 'because they're so cheap, in My Most
Beneficiary generosity, I'll resend them to you.' Ebay's response:
'What are you looking at me for, bitch!

In case you've further questions: Hell no, that's not going to stop
me buying from China. I will, however, be looking a lot harder at
them;- and, in the case of Ebay, I can think offhand of some creative
ways financially to draw down their attention should they attempt to
slip out the backdoor on deals gone bad.

When a Chinese merchant says he means to reship you something that
never may have been shipped in the first place, I do have my doubts
that Amazon would allow him the opportunity to say it twice. (And
Amazon as well does ship from the Pacific Rim, to be certain, although
for what addition price(s) to carry its PRIME modeling, if less so.)