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I don't pay for Amazon Prime, so between shipping and sales tax it often makes financial sense for me to buy a product from an eBay seller over Amazon even at a higher price. You'd think Amazon would want to stop this by banning Prime accounts used to ship to too many different addresses or something.

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They don't allow Prime accounts used for resale.

They shut them down once caught, and then it's easy to open another account and pay for prime all over again. There are some seriously big sellers who do this: http://www.ebay.com/usr/working*hard

You can search on ebay for "2 day shipping" and almost all of them are people doing this

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