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Comment Re:SAP VP, It figures (Score 2) 535

COGS is not 0. It's $49, plus shipping to customer, plus ebay listing fees, plus ebay selling fees, plus insurance, plus phototagging and insuring each item OR returns for wrong product (which ebay says seller is SOL if they send the correct product and get a different product returned and don't take time to prove what the items are), plus regular returns for actual product defects. Keep in mind that as a seller you also have to compete with the store, and in internet times, other sellers, so you aren't selling for a small discount (say...249 instead of 279) but rather a much larger one (probably in the 100-150 range). The item in question, that rings up for 279 at the store, is going for 139 shipped from amazon right now, so if he is selling for 119, I could easily see the maximum margin in the 15-20 dollar range per item.

This isn't rocket science. The guy is a huge moron.

Comment Re:This only affects people flagged as abusive (Score 1) 503

That is not legally relevant. BB cannot disclaim all warranties, such as non-conforming goods (merchants) or warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, without explicitly disclaiming them. Reserving the right to deny returns or exchanges is too vague to automatically disclaim prior contracts.

Comment Re:This only affects people flagged as abusive (Score 2) 503

If he has a history of buying and returning items I see no problem with them cutting him off from abusing their store.

I see a problem with that, and it is called contract law. BB's written return policy states nothing about cutting people off from the ability to make returns when they return a certain number of items in a specified time period. While it is legal for a company to sell items as non-returnable, it is required that the policy be known at point of sale. The new, personalized return policy can be implemented for future purchases, but if the person purchased other items prior to being added to the no-return list, BB has no standing to refuse to allow returns of those items.

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