Wasnt the point of having no FVF on postage to show that EBAY was not from profiteeting on postage costs and to make sure that the postage amount listed was reflective of actual cost - thus protecting buyers from inflated postage costs?

As a mum/dad seller I generally Auction only and load the postage with packaging cost+10% of what I think the final sale price will be to cover FVF and Paypal fees but I know this is frowned upon generally.

But I am not a charty in the end posting something off say sold auctioned for 99c (baby clothes or somehing equally mundane) - postage 8,95 prepaid bag cost. If you work out the FVF its 98c making the excercise pointless generally . Add the paypal fee and you have made a loss. 

Really you have to make auction starts at least $2 now and load your postage up even more. 

What a pain in the ass.