ORIGINAL: piper_chuck
Notice that they charge artificially high shipping on their auctions ($26 for an ARF trainer is high) so they can even cheat eBay out of some of the money they should get.
You have to admit that the ebay/paypal empire is somewhat gouging its sellers on fees. with ebay and paypal together they are getting close to 10% per transaction multiply that with the number of auctions and ebay is making a killing so i can't get mad at someone for trying to cover there fees with extra shipping charges, its just up to the bidder to take this into consideration.
BTW i purchased one ARF from ebay, it was a .40 size pattern type plane, one of those deals I put a bid on it soo cheap I new there was no way I would win and I did. Well to make a long story short my buddy bought it from me (last thing I needed at the time was another plane) and he had great success with it, it was an excellent flyer, his only problem was he thought it needed a little more reinforcement around the landing gear, but I think that was more do to a rough flying field than anything. Long story short I would gladly buy another ebay plane if it looked like something I would want, but then again most look like cheap crap in the pictures to begin with so for the most part ebay doesn't have anything that interest me.