springyzone's post shows the perspective that I think eBay would like to have their members believe.

I don't think it's the real reason, because eBay's reason for policy changes is always going to be based upon increased profitability. The current CEO is strongly focusing on giving the customer what he believes they want. All the surveys are slanted to support the view that he is espousing and putting into practice; these surveys are added to a pile of "evidence" used to ensure that the board members are on board.

Unfortunately, as unfair as I think all of us consider the charging of a final value fee upon postage, there doesn't appear to be any way at present to successfully challenge it. Sellers are faced with the problem of trying to work with the system as it is, and that means putting numbers into spreadsheets and doing calculations to work out what is their best way forward - if they remain on eBay as sellers.