Big companies negotiate minimal shipping rates. Damaging other on line retailers of medium and smaller size. I believe it is so competitive some of their shipping suppliers reduced costs to get the contracts. Then are downloaded onto increasing individuals shipping rates.

I only buy from ebay USA or ebay Canada. If I am really desperate for an item now. Or the item is shipped from the orient for almost nothing. I live in eastern Canada. . .Many things are five percent of local retail including shipping from the orient.

Delivery though Is usually slow. A little quicker out of Hong Kong usually. Last week outside mirror led light assembly for the jetta. Fifty dollars ebay. Plus ebay will want their cut on shipping to Canada.

Five dollars including shipping from China. Could be a knock off but that has not been a general experience with most things acquired there by me in the last year or so. Before that there were far more knock offs.

Unless pretty obvious. Seem now to be the exact same parts the original manufactures used in production. Or what they sell you as replacements. Volkswagon does not manufacture these units as they are seen as fitting many brands of cars in the listing.

If nothing else it is ten percent or less the cost of American vendors listing the part on ebay. Their part will be the exact same part in most cases.