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Doh! They skunked me again.
Looked for an ER32 collet/hex block on eBay... found a good price at $37 and change, bought it. Came in an Amazon box.
???
Then I remembered- this has happened to me before. The eBay seller uses "arbitrage" software... he finds a deal on Amazon Prime (with free shipping), posts it on eBay for a few bucks more, and crosses his fingers. If he gets a sale, on this or any of the 10,000 other things he has listed, he orders it from Amazon and drop ships it with a gift receipt to my address. Brilliant. In this case, I could have saved nine bucks, it's in his pocket now.
Moral: Shop on both eBay AND Amazon to find the lowest price.
Read all about it at : https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278622
Looked for an ER32 collet/hex block on eBay... found a good price at $37 and change, bought it. Came in an Amazon box.
???
Then I remembered- this has happened to me before. The eBay seller uses "arbitrage" software... he finds a deal on Amazon Prime (with free shipping), posts it on eBay for a few bucks more, and crosses his fingers. If he gets a sale, on this or any of the 10,000 other things he has listed, he orders it from Amazon and drop ships it with a gift receipt to my address. Brilliant. In this case, I could have saved nine bucks, it's in his pocket now.
Moral: Shop on both eBay AND Amazon to find the lowest price.
Read all about it at : https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278622