I think mup_ppg talks about excessive shipping charges. As eBay is now charging the same fee on shipping than on the item this is not much of an issue anymore. Where it does occur you can flag the Price Point for review.

Taxes are local and others would have to factor them out (say if you live in Nevada where there are no sales taxes). They also do not factor for private transactions. Much easier to know that you have to add taxes if you buy from a retailer.

Shipping information is the same (and it is not even available). We would then also have to calculate the fuel and other driving related costs if you go to pick one at a store say one town over.

Shipping is the cost you pay for acquiring a product from one place to another and should NEVER be included in the evaluation of the product no matter how much the shipping cost is. It gives no value to how much a product is actually worth. The only place shipping gives value is to the shipping company. If someone wants an item bad enough, they will determine if the shipping cost is of value to them.
Items that show up with irregularities or fluctuating in pricing, should be taken into account and looked at differently when determining the value of those specific items so the correct values can be calculated.

only time shipping should be included is if it’s 20 or more and if the base price is 20 to 50 less than ppg or for that matter, what others has sold it for. I’m sorry but I really don’t care if it’s coming from another country and shipping is 40. either add it in, don’t post it or don’t buy from someone in another country. almost all listings on ebay that is within the US, is free shipping to maybe 15 tops. so I don’t know where you’re saying we never see 5 to 15 dollar shipping cost. those I’m fine with no inputting but 20 or more with a lower price absolutely

that’s the point though, if someone sells something that ppg has listed for 120 and someone sells one for say 80 but shipping was 40 then yea it should be added as it drops the “value” bc its only taking into account that it sold for 80 but in actuality, it’s 80 plus 40 which us still the 120. ppg said.

We do not really see many items that cost $5 and shipping $15 sales (that stopped mostly when eBay started charging full fees of P&P), then Squad Members could disregard those Price Points, members can flag them and lastly that $15 could be because the seller is in Hawaii or the buyer is Argentine.