smart racer:

Report her SR. Thats ~ecactly~ the reason its illegal. Its called " Fee Avoidance " and if you forward that e-mail to eBay, they may suspend her seller's rights immediately pending her revision of her pending auctions. That ot they will watch any further auctions, and di if if they do not comply.

The OTHER reason these guys (and gals, apparently) do it is so when they have to cough up a refund (often in the case of DOA HL's and other cheapies) they don't loose a cent, they made their profit on the postage, which is NOT refundable.

Bottom line: If you do NOT report them, they will continue to get away with scamming both YOU and eBay.

Don't whine about if you aren't willing to take action to stop it.

[/end rant]

Sorry guys, but this is a real pet-peeve for me on eBay. I'd ~almost~ go as far as to actively hunt these jerks/jerkettes but I don't have the time to waste. My other peeve is feedback hostaging. (can explasin if you want)