Odd, isn't it...

[ffutures]

...that when I sell a fairly heavy camera lens on eBay I can get it to the USA in a week, with insurance and tracking, for £17.....

...but if I want to buy a fairly light bit of software from a US vendor on eBay (a disk plus manual in a plastic bag) they quote me up to $50 depending on delivery speed, with delivery at that price still taking up to a week.

Are the US postal options really that crap, or do US vendors just not want to do business with British buyers?

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sorry, forgot to address your original point. If that happened (and I do have a search running on ebay) I would check the list of registered users, see if it was one of them, and if they were selling one copy or lots. If it was a registered user selling lots they'd be blacklisted, e.g. I wouldn't let them have future copies. I would also put a few copies on sale at a "buy it now" price below the price the vendor was listing it at, point out that unlike the bootleg copies you'd get an update eventually, and wait for the shit to hit the fan.