Op, you must feel like you have just had a finger wagged in front of your face after Putney's condescending reply!! How dare you question ebays money grubbing practices lol,

Putney, didn't eBay increase your FVF fee from 7.5 to 7.9 percent to cover for the free listings and also increase the max fee from $50 to $100, so why are you now disadvantaged by being made a power seller?

eBay make an absolute killing with the fees they charge, their overheads would be extremely low, they certainly don't spend any of there their vast wealth on customer service in fact they go all out to make it as difficult as possible if you have a problem, they go out of their way to hide relevant links, they even move them around if too many people are starting to find them, how many people come here looking for the contact member button or the site map. Setting your preferences is a nightmare, it's worse than getting teeth pulled trying to navigate this mess.

it's ok for people like yourself (Putney & co) as you guys have lived and breathed it since it's beginning, but to brow beat people on how they should have known this and that as that is what they agreed to when they signed up is just plain wrong, you may know every policy eBay and PayPal have ever implemented but 95percent of users do not and never will.

Rant over!!