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Thread ID: 109438	2010-05-08 09:07:00	eBay\China\shipping cost - profit??	Agent_24 (57)	PC World Chat

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883136	2010-05-08 09:07:00	I bought a CF to IDE adaptor from China on eBay for $1 US with free shipping I received it today, in an envelope 3 times bigger than necessary, with 3 stamps on it $2, $2 and 10c Did it cost them $4.10 US to send me what I only paid $1 for? How can this possibly make sense\profit?	Agent_24 (57)
883137	2010-05-08 10:00:00	Nope it wouldn't be USD but instead HKD (Hong Kong Dollars) which is 0.73NZD. Amazing isn't it? There's a seller on there that sells items way way cheaper then I've ever believed was possible.	trinsic (6945)
883138	2010-05-08 10:36:00	But do you know what the cost to produce said item was? I worked for a place that sold needles for record players ( vinyl ). Our cost in NZ was 27 cents per. Sold for $5.99 per.	Sweep (90)
883139	2010-05-08 10:50:00	DealExtreme? I have no idea how they do it eh. Some really cheap stuff on there. I reshelled my Nokia N82 for about 20 bucks.	Alex B (15479)
883140	2010-05-09 01:00:00	Nope it wouldn't be USD but instead HKD (Hong Kong Dollars) which is 0.73NZD. Which works out to $1 US.... Only thing that possibly makes sense is Chinese Yuan, that works out to about 60 cents US	Agent_24 (57)
883141	2010-05-09 02:27:00	Maybe top ebay sellers also buy postage in bulk - and probably pay less than retail for stamps. Even insurance for small items I bought on e-bay seem to be cheap.	kahawai chaser (3545)
883142	2010-05-09 02:45:00	Which works out to $1 US....Methinks you have your US/NZ exchange rates backwards: $1.0000 HK == $0.1799 NZ == $0.1285 US $1.0000 US == $1.4000 NZ == $7.7819 HK $1.0000 NZ == $0.7143 US == $5.5586 HK	Erayd (23)
883143	2010-05-09 03:36:00	Whoops, so I have, it would have been 52 cents US... still a profit then I guess	Agent_24 (57)
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