+$4.23 tax and shipping = $19.22, 7% more than I paid. (Ebay auction had free shipping).
In my second post I linked to a 16GB Kingston drive on Newegg for $16.49 with free shipping.
Had I thought to look at Newegg, I would have done that instead of eBay, but I went to eBay first, found a reasonable Buy It Now deal and took it.
In the end, to me this thread is not about prices or the fake flash drive business. This is about ebay being an awful online store.
And that's what they're becoming now, a storefront. You even said so yourself, you just went there and looked for a good Buy It Now price. The problem, IMO, is that the site was never really designed to work this way, and they were never prepared to handle this type of business. The result is rampant fraud and little to no recourse for victims of it.
In contrast, Amazon sells products from thousands of partners, and I've never had a bad experience purchasing from one of these other sellers through them.
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