I think their point is that ebay shareholders shouldn't expect a return on their investment but should all be philanthropists who buy the shares and then pay extra money to maintain the site so that it can allow everyone else to use the site to sell things without paying for the service, or only partly paying for it.

How many of the people who complain about ebay fees would be willing to pay out of their own pocket to set up a selling site and let everyone else it for less than it costs to run the site? Yet this is what they expect others to do for them!

I can live with ebay fees. Sure, I can't sell everything and get my money back because of the fees I have to pay when I sell, but that's my stupid fault for buying things and paying too much for them, or buying things I don't really need. I can't blame anyone else for that.

Apart from anything else, I get so many vouchers from ebay that sometimes I save more money than what my fees are on one of my ID's. I'd be stupid to complain when they're handing money back to me!