Hmmm, bet they'd love to hear this.

Got an interesting and alarmingly direct response from a seller on ebay who had an item listed and for which I was tempted to place a bid, EXCEPT the shipping was more than a bit excessive: roughly $20.00 for something that could just as easily be mailed in a $5.00 flat rate box, priority mail even. This is what the seller had to say when I called him (or her) out on it:

My shipping is so "inflated" because I ship the same day, use high
quality packing materials, include delivery confirmation with a track
number, and to avoid high insertion and final value fees from ebay.

Bet ebay would just love to hear this. They'd drop his sorry ass from their site. Can't say I'm surprised. Seems everybody wants to make a buck at the expense of others. Corporations locate offshore to shelter assets or declare bankruptcy to shed pension obligations or current salary commitments (both arrived in in good faith via contract negotiations), as we've seen in the steel and airline industries to name a few. So, from corporate boardroom to some schmuck hocking goods on the interweb from the breakfast nook in his kitchen, the call to greed and avarice runs deep and it's undertow is strong.