The agonies and ecstasies of buying on eBay, ongoing

• Surely "sexy" is not an appropriate tag for an autobiography of Samuel Johnson.
• I don't think that the weight of a book is necessarily a selling point. 
• Some of us appreciate knowing basic bibliographical data.  For example, the book's title.
• If you have listed, relisted, and rerelisted your book at the same price for weeks on end, and yet nobody bids, you might consider...lowering the starting bid?
• No, books are not in good condition "for their age." 
• If a book is "like new," it should not be on the verge of collapse when it arrives in the buyer's mailbox.
• I do not get the point of listing new books at near-retail "buy now" prices, especially when you can frequently find such books at a much lower price over at Amazon.  (Especially since such listings badly clutter up the search results; telling the search engine to eliminate anything with "new" just creates another layer of problems, because then you miss new stuff that has been marked down.) 

ADDENDUM, 9/18/08: It does not cost nearly $28 to ship a paperback from the UK to the USA.