there are sellers that will sell at an extremely low bid price to make it up with extremely high shipping charges. Not long ago, I was checking out the silver dollars under "time: ending soonest" I came across a decent coin that was about $20! That's well under melt! There wasn't much time left, maybe a minute or less, and I almost pulled the trigger, but checked his shipping cost. Heck it was 20 something bucks!