Why are Australian listing fees so much higher than the US site

[wears4bears]

I'm almost at my 40 free listings on ebay AU and wasn't worried, thinking the 35c listing fee or similar would apply, like on the US site, but to my horror, paid listings on AU are $1.65 each! Is this right?  I mean why is it so much more expensive and why do we only get 40 free listings?

With currency conversion it should be maybe 55c but the cost here is more than triple the US..... why? This just doesn't seem fair, or am I not reading it right?

I have about 100 items I want to list, but not at this price, most of them are worth under $20, so with exorbatant listing fees and all the other fees it makes it not worth it.

Is it more viable to open a store in Australia than the US because of our very high listing fees and small amount of free listings? I'm confused about what to do.

[south.coffee]

At this point in time eBay does not collect our Tax File Numbers, although it would not be hard to do data matching across our eBay and ATO account information.  I understand the ATO does receive sales information from sellers over a certain ceiling.  Possibly not worth the effort for smaller private sellers.

(My eBay account is registered in Switzerland where eBay 'hide' their cash from prying tax juristrictions).

[heihachi_73]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Tax

Nothing to do with real tax!