Yes... we too have just started the process to get our own e-commerce site up and running. We have found a really good developer we feel very happy with. Hope to go live about April next year.

Like many on here, we have been very unhappy with the treatment we have been receiving (as sellers) over recent months by ebay.

We are thinking we will probably keep our two ebay stores alive but definitley in a reduced capacity. Mainly to provide just enough income to pay the much smaller costs associated with the main site startup. And in time as the main site takes over we will close out of ebay altogether.

IMHO if ebay continue to treat their sellers badly they will end up with none/few left. And once buyers are increasingly unable to find what they are looking for on ebay they will migrate (take their $$$) to other sites. I think ebay (at least in Australia) will die a slow death unless they change their business model. They are way too buyer focussed.