I have upgraded my store subscriptions to get more free listings for the same fee. I am paying less in all fees to ebay than ever before but the store exposure in search results seems to be mch worth than it was before June 2013.

And when I list something as an auction I can see how bad the situation with them now. Paying $2 in listing fee(auction + BIN) for $20 item just to get it listed is ridiculous. Now add final value fee to it and it seems to be ripoff. But I do list as an auction sometime because it drives traffic to my store.