All this angst for an extra $6.23 a week?....really?

This may go against the majority here, but I still think $49.95 is reasonable, in comparison to the running costs of a  B&M store.

If hobby sellers will find it unviable to sell in this format any longer than it is a shame that we will lose those weird and wonderful bargains that ebay was famous for in the early days,  but for medium volume sellers (myself included on another ID) I will just have to suck it up and carry on because alternatives just dont have that attraction at the moment, even free listings on other sites as there is just no traffic going through.

I think the social media widgets is a great marketing tool too, however dont get me wrong there are too many fees still being charged, perhaps they can do away with FVFs and IFs and just have a flat rate so we can see the cost to list an item straight up.