Get the government involved! That's why idiots do these studies, right? Waa! Waa! Life's unfair! Fix it, big daddy!

Assuming women are the primary purchasers of female-oriented goods -- the assumption whereby they can guess at the sex of homeshop1245289MD or DropCLothz77-- government intervention to push up the earnings of allegedly-female sellers means that they will put a stealth tax on women if they do anything. About time she paid for her own government.

Good - it can make up for the overt tax on men to subsidize women that is Obamacare.

"Women, if you're selling something new on eBay, you'll make more money if you get a male friend to sell it, according to a new study."

But the study also states that women outsold men in some categories and had better star ratings; so, that should read:

"Men, if you want to make sure your items sells on eBay get a female friend to list it for you."

See, anyone get any statistics to lie for them.

"But the study also states that women outsold men in some categories and had better star ratings;"

That part is proof that women are superior to men.

The 80-cents-on-the-dollar thing is such an obvious meme that it discredits the whole thing right off the top. If there is a discrepancy, I suspect that it's due to what items a man typically sells online vs. what items a woman sells. I troll for electronic music instruments, some of which are very expensive. Nearly all of the sellers are male (for the more expensive items, I usually know the person who is selling). My wife buys mystery novels, and from what she tells me, the sellers she usually buys from are female (she corresponds with some of them). She buys a $25 box of paperbacks every week; I buy a $2500 synth every other year. The amount of money we spend is about the same, but my per-unit cost is a lot higher.

Do businesses count as male or female? Does the gender of the owner matter? What if it's a husband-and-wife team? Is "sales@AJenterprises.com" a male or female email address? Does it matter who it gets forwarded to? What about the gender of the person who types up the listing? The person who takes the photographs? The person who made the product in the first place? What if the product was produced by a machine -- are there male and female assembly-line robots? Male and female 3-D printers? How am I supposed to oppress women if I can't tell which machines are female? I need to know so I can do my part to uphold The Patr... oh heck, you know what I mean.

the easiest and most consistent manner in which a study can find bias, is to look for it.

It's not my job as a buyer to negotiate a higher price for a woman seller. It's her job.

Anybody who claims to be able to find identical products on eBay has never shopped on eBay.

Cousin Dave: pro musician?

Fan of mad scientist Celldweller?

It's not my job as a buyer to negotiate a higher price for a woman seller. It's her job.

Misogynist.

Could this be explained by men and women using different selling strategies on average - e.g. men are more likely to start with a higher price, or leave the auction running for longer?

Starcross; absolutely the difference could be explained that way; or any of a number of other ways.

But, for a "Science" journal to publish this kind of crap without examining all the possible reasons is the issue. It is just poor "science" to jump to a conclusion.

But, that seems to be what so many in the Social "Sciences" do. Think up a hypothesis then look for "facts" to support it.

Shoot, if you want to play numbers games, here's one (scroll to the bottom for the meaningful chart): Target has a higher net profit margin than Walmart! In fact, Walmart only makes about 90 cents for every dollar of net profit Target makes.

No fairrrrr! Something must be done! By somebody else, I mean.

This information suggests that women are paying other women less than they would pay a man. Lets' see them fix that one...

There's supposedly a "bias" in people's buying behavior that causes men to make more money than women selling stuff on eBay.

That "bias" is actually the result of thugs hired by greedy and ruthless men selling stuff on eBay. The thugs threaten to take away the mobile devices of buyers if the buyers buy from women and, since that's far more terrifying than threatening to kill their children, grandparents and pets, most of the buyers cave and buy from dudes.

Crid, no, I'm just a hobbyist. One of the advantages of being an adult is that I can now buy some of the cool stuff that I couldn't afford when I was a teenager.

It is often considered a savvy business plan to sell more of an item at a lower price then your competition and make more money through volume of sales. Did they take this into account?

It is often considered a savvy business plan to sell more of an item at a lower price then your competition and make more money through volume of sales. Did they take this into account?

Good gravy ladies. I can't tell who I'm buying from on ebay. I'd have to go way out of my way to make that determination, and I'm just too lazy to do that.

Oh, my. I may be subconsciously guilty of the exact sexist bias exposed by this study. It never consciously occurred to me to wonder whether the entity I bought a transfer case control module from through Ebay was male or female (... or human or corporate... or biological or digital) Jeez, the only thing I insensitively even cared about was getting the best transfer case control module available at the lowest price.

The seller I victimized must have been female because the new TCCM I bought was cheaper by about 20% than the used one offered by a competing entity. It never occurred to me to inquire whether the seller was female, or that it might be appropriate to add a 25% social justice premium to the price.

I'm not sure how I should feel about the demo video I watched on Youtube about how to replace a TCCM. The narrator was female. Should I feel guilty of sexist exploitation? ...or am I entitled to feel smugly self righteous?

I thought I chose that video because it's short, demonstrates the procedure in simple, clear steps, and gives a few tips on how to avoid complications; and also because the vehicle used in the demo is exactly the same color as mine, which is probably not relevant, but it made me feel more confident.

However, I admit I did notice that the female narrator was very attractive, nicely dressed, and probably has cute little boobs. But I swear I did not think about raping her - at least not consciously; I was too focused on getting my 4-wheel drive working again.

The person actually demonstrating the repair was male, but he never spoke. I'm not sure if there's anything subliminally micro-aggressive about any of that. Does it imply that females are only capable of reading a script, but not of making repairs... that men are doers and not just talkers? Was the producer of the video trying to attract male viewers by subliminally objectifying that beautiful woman's sexuality?

Oh, hell, it's all too complicated for neanderthalish males like me. I'm just going to continue exploiting women who offer to sell me things I want at a lower price - and smile and look fantastic while doing it. Their success will somehow be construed by feminists as proof of their victimization and oppression.