Ebay Moderator or Pink,
I would like some clarification for starters, as to why Australian auction sellers are the only Ebayers in the English speaking world (and possibly worldwide) who are still paying a fee for Gallery. The gallery was made free on the US and UK sites several years ago, as it was deemed to be an essential selling tool and industry standard, but since then, on a $9.00 listing the gallery fee alone costs more than double the listing fee which includes gallery, on both of those sites. Additionally the listing fee itself is about double both the UK and US sites, thus it costs an Australian seller about 4 times as much to list a $9.00 listing as it does on other Ebay sites.
If the intention is truely to remove auctions and Australian collectibles from the Australian Ebay (eg: All Australian postcard categories were removed February last year, and has apparently wiped about 30% of the turnover from those who have continued to try to sell those on Ebay), can you, as an Ebay employee, please recommend where you would prefer that Australian auction sellers take their business to.
Please also be aware that everything that is done to deliberately (or inadvertantly) interfere with the Ebay marketplace does affect real people's livelihoods adversely.
While I am an Australian auction seller, who has had categories removed and interfered with, and is now deliberately being financially dissadvantaged, I am still a customer who does pay fees to Ebay every month, and contributes to listing some of the more unusual and interesting items that do attract some buyers and money to the site. Undermining my entire business model is obviously not beneficial to my livelihood (other than me, who cares), but is also not beneficial to Ebay's bottom line (where your wages come from, so that is probably more important).
Regards, Kevin
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