Is it legit for a lister to ask for more $$$ for an item by eBay messaging?

[randythepokerguy]

I had a seller ask me by eBay messaging the following.  This sounds like a 'bait and switch' to me and as such they should be reported to eBay.  Just want everyone's opinion.   The following is the copy of the eBay message I recieved from the seller...

Hi there, Im the wife of the seller and Im writing regarding the price of 499. I saw that you said you would be picking up the extra cost for shipping to Canada and that is great, we do appreciate that. We've shipped to Canada on other occasions but we ended up losing in the end because of something or another. Anyhow, this message really is about the price of the camera that was set at $499.00. I was at work when my husband listed it and when I returned home from work he informed me that we have a potential buyer for the camera. I thought, "wonderful" I asked if he had listed it at what fair market value would be, being brand new, not used as most that are listed are older models USED and may contain some of the same or similar package deals.(accessories beyond standard) Ours, however being more substantial given the extras included as opposed to this same camera but used on ebay (case, extra optic cables, hdmi, warranty, extra memory card stick, and a few others.) Another reason im price was changed is the fees taken by ebay would set me back further.

to conclude, if you were interested in buying at $499, but now once seeing that i had my husband raise the price not only because it is mine, but because we paid over $2000 and never used it, so $599, was and is fair, shipping will be calculated accordingly to where you live and how you want it shipped as well as any insurance and things of that nature. I am willing to entertain the notion of meeting half way though if you think that 599 is out of your ball park when you include shipping and sell it to you at $550, plus the shipping. I do apologize that it turned out this way, If you do or wish to buy it please contact us first before you do the buy it now so that we can adjust the shipping cost with how you prefer so that it is exact and not a guessing game and send you that buy it now, its much less complicated in my opinion

[momcqueen]

How did THIS one float to the top, it's from 2012!? And it was marked solved seven years later, it makes no sense despite that femmefan's answer is, in fact, very good and correct.

Zombie thread. 

@happy_pigeon