any alternatives to hip gear

jjcarron · Post by **jjcarron** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:56 pm

hey, i was looking to build a portable with a hip gear screen, but was wondering if there were any good alternatives to the hip ear 2.5 inch, like this one on ebay
LINK
any info would be great, thanx a lot

jj

NOTE: Link shortened, G-force

daleighan · Post by **daleighan** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:22 pm

note that shipping is about 50 bux making it totally not worth it

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:47 pm

that's a pretty good looking screen, but for the price, i'd go with hip. BTW, there's an extension for mozilla/firefox that shortens urls for you so you don't torture people with small screens

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:15 pm

Shipping US $45.99

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:53 pm

you can get a 5" screen for less $$.

Post by **Gamelver** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:50 pm

or even a hip gear screen

....why don't you want to use the hip gear? they're quite excellent, you know

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nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:46 pm

daguuy wrote:that's a pretty good looking screen, but for the price, i'd go with hip. BTW, there's an extension for mozilla/firefox that shortens urls for you so you don't torture people with small screens

There's also that little "URL" button when you're posting.

jjcarron · Post by **jjcarron** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:09 am

sorry about the url, still kinda new, and was just wondering, seems kinda hard to find the hip gear when u need it. I didnt even look at the postage for that little guy, that seems like a rip off, there should be a rule on ebay about how the price of postage should only be the price of postage and not the remaining cost of the item that u listed for so little

thanx again

jj

akadewboy · Post by **akadewboy** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:48 pm

It's called Shipping and <b>Handling</b>. Even if the guy didn't make S&H so high, he would have just made the starting bid higher. When buying off of ebay you have to consider the total cost, not just the highest bid.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:34 pm

Shipping always sucks on eBay; That's where they stick you.

akadewboy · Post by **akadewboy** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:50 pm

I just discovered another reason why sellers put the item at a low price and jack the S&H up so high:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

It's becuase they have to pay higher fees if the item starts at a high cost and if it ends at a high cost. They use the S&H loophole to avoid the higher fees. I'm suprised ebay allows this

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:05 pm

Tricky!

As for screens, there aren't any I know of. Other than Pocket TV's of course, and the REALLY pricy screens ben uses.

It would be really great if we could find a new screen. The hip gear screen is ok, but it gets kinda eye straining after a while. Not really bad or anything, just kind of small for my tastes. If it was just a little bit bigger that would help a lot.

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:06 pm

never relized that
but it makes poeple more suspicious i thikn
i wouldnt buy somehting with that

A.J. Franzman · Post by **A.J. Franzman** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:06 am

akadewboy wrote:I just discovered another reason why sellers put the item at a low price and jack the S&H up so high:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

It's becuase they have to pay higher fees if the item starts at a high cost and if it ends at a high cost. They use the S&H loophole to avoid the higher fees. I'm suprised ebay allows this

They don't allow it. But they also don't have people who go and look for violations except for a small team watching for a very few major frauds - for small stuff like this, they rely on eBay users to report them.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_us/_base/index.html

We are the "eBay police".

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:43 pm

If they really cared all that much, they could offer a small reward for catching somebody. Like $.50-$1 or something.

'Course then people would start selling links to violations....