I just look at it as a surcharge and figure it into my bids. If I bid on singles, I know that my actual bid is 25 cents more, etc.
David
Mrs. dpnewell wrote:
Yup!
You can declare that henceforth, you shall not pay shipping, nor shall you pay sales tax, and you can actually make it so! Not technically, but effectively, which is monetarily 100% just as good.
EXAMPLE: There's a box of cigars up for bid. $70 is as high as you want to go.
You haven't won anything yet this week, and the item is marked as $7.00 for shipping.
Also, CigarBid charges 6% sales tax on shipments to your state.
Without your personal declaration of effective exemption from these fees, you enter your AutoBid max as $70 and, assuming it's maxed out when you win, would ACTUALLY end up paying $70 + $7 = $77 x 1.06 =
$81.62With your personal declaration, you'd simply place an AutoBid max of $59 instead, meaning you would ACTUALLY end up paying $59 + $7 = $66 x 1.06 =
$69.96You will win less often, but every lot you DO win will
effectively have free shipping and no sales tax.
I have done these calculations and bid-adjustments on every item I've ever bid on here, since day one. Therefore I've effectively never paid shipping or sales tax on anything (even though I technically have on everything).
The best part is, it's all completely legal because you're just bidding a bit lower to negate those things.
Pretty cool, eh?
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