Posting it on ebay for $49.95 (cover price is listed as $16.00), which is 100% clear profit and of which the author sees not one cent, is not the point of the exercise, people.
While I completely agree with the moral outrage, strictly speaking the seller is not in fact clearing 100% profit on the final selling price -- there's eBay's listing fee to cover, and depending on payment methods accepted, whatever processing fee Paypal or its equivalent is charging these days.
Which is one reason it's been ages since I've sold anything on eBay; the pricing models I see people using, and the kinds of things I'd want to sell (definitely NOT including prepub ARCs), are such that I am not confident I'd make enough to make the time-investment worthwhile.
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While I completely agree with the moral outrage, strictly speaking the seller is not in fact clearing 100% profit on the final selling price -- there's eBay's listing fee to cover, and depending on payment methods accepted, whatever processing fee Paypal or its equivalent is charging these days.
Which is one reason it's been ages since I've sold anything on eBay; the pricing models I see people using, and the kinds of things I'd want to sell (definitely NOT including prepub ARCs), are such that I am not confident I'd make enough to make the time-investment worthwhile.