@sweetsherryl,
Unfortunately, as the other responders have said, this has been the case for years now.
Don't think for a moment that anyone here is delighted by it, or thinks that it is fair - but eBay have been challenged on this before and have been able to demonstrate that it's in order. I believe that at the time eBay were offering savings to sellers, which resulted in sellers not losing money.
You could bring a new complaint to the ACCC about this practice, on the basis of the situation having changed since eBay first implemented this. I don't know whether the ACCC would revisit this.
The long-time members of these boards tend to be pragmatic about eBay's rules and policies. Rather than lamenting the fees on postage, they would have been briefly outraged at the time when it was first implemented, and then worked out how to minimise the effect of the fee change. They might occasionally mutter about the fees, but for those who sell professionally on eBay, it just doesn't do to get upset over one aspect of the costs. Successful selling in a business will look at outgoing costs overall, and will price their items to maximise their profits; if they are making a good profit, then factoring in those FVFs including on the postage component will probably not even be noticed after a while.
For the occasional seller/mostly buyer (as I gather you are now, as you've only sold a few items recently), I suppose you'd have had no reason to realise that the FVF would be upon the total including postage.
Yes, it's unfair, but it's eBay policy. You could have listed the item as pickup only but buyers welcome to organise their own freight, and in that case, the buyer would have been responsible for paying the freight company directly, rather than your paying the freight company on behalf of the buyer. That would have meant no FVF upon the postage cost. However, listing in that way may very well have meant no interest from potential buyers in other states or at a distance from you.
For any future selling, it is always worth your reading through the Help pages, or looking at the seller resources, or even posting on these boards (in the Seller board, for instance) and asking if anything has changed since you last sold. People here have a wealth of experience, and when they can give advice, they will do so.
