Free Postage on any listing means ebay gets more in final value fees.

This is the whole point why ebay is encouraging free postage.

Just wait for the next announcement where all postage offered by any Australian seller, be it regular, express, registered or click and send will be incorporated into the Final Value Fee on the item to bring us in line with USA. 

In case anyone is not aware of this, USA members pay fees on item and postage to ebay as well as fees on item and postage to paypal.

September 2012 Category Changes

These improvements will help eBay.com.au better align with other international eBay sites, thus making it easier for buyers and sellers to trade on eBay regardless of where they are located. 

Really ebay, will they really?

I don't forget the June 2010 category changes that said the same thing.  Which was a total farce....

Toys and Hobbies - Character Toys in particular (which was my selling category).

You said the changes occurred then to align us with Overseas Sites.  You failed to mention that we were aligned originally, but you unaligned us with these changes. 

To this day we are still UNALIGNED.  Meaning we list on ebay Australia in a "Brand" sub-category you lumped us with and we ended up with NO VISIBILITY anywhere in the world.

I used to be a Power Seller (TRS these days) until you took away our sub-categories and I sold locally and internationally.  You killed me off as a Seller thanks to this unalignment of our categories, so much so that now I rarely list any item at all to sell as no buyer even knows where to find listings in Australia and they get taken to the sites internationally that DO HAVE THESE SUB-CATEGORIES.

I can sell on any other site anywhere in the world or here in Australia and I get the correct category, but not on ebay Australia.

So I wonder, and this is a specific question for a Pink to answer, Will you be reinstating our character toy sub-categories to align us with every other Overseas Ebay site or not?

Or are you going to continue to kill off Australian Character Toy Sellers with the current BRAND categories and do nothing to align us again?

Any of other changes ebay has announced do not affect me, as I am already gone as a Seller until ebay gives us back visibility in our respective categories.

Or here's a thought ebay, why don't you just copy every ebay category and sub-category for Sellers and Buyers alike from the USA onto ebay Australia and then, and only then, will we be lined up with international ebay Sites.