If you absorb the extra costs your profitability is decreased.

That is all Ebay is worried about. How to make more money . They do not care if you pay it or the customer pays it.

The whole thing is the relentless push to increase profit.

I am now making my priority increasing my profit. If I can not sell profitably I will leave it sitting in the shed  till I can find a profitable way to sell.

When listing fees increased to $ 1.50 I stopped listing beer cans for less than $ 5.00 as the fees took it all.

My box slowly empties as I sell them for 5 , 10, 15 dollars and eventually somebody buys them

No longer a regular income but stil profitable.

My other question is if Quicksales starts to sell , how long would it take ebay to buy them and remove the competition just like all the other ones they bought.