"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 19:26:21 on Sun, 2 Oct 2016,
tim... remarked:
It's not a sustainable business to sell things cheaper than Amazon,
while also paying them to use the platform.

It is if you charge people for postage

What? Less postage than Amazon, who will have negotiated the very best
discounts.

IME (not necessarily with Amazon) postage is charged in fixed chunks with
say 6.95 as the smallest chunk,

That's simply not the case. eBay in particular encourages traders to ship
with zero postage charges. Lots of stuff "fulfilled by Amazon" has a zero
postage charge for the slowest service.

Not the stuff I bought

can't explain why, (I am not a frequent customer)

it's just how it was

tim