I think ebay and auspost has raised the bar so far that most Aussie mum and pop sellers will be scared off. Which will probably also lead to diminishing sales as sellers are often buyers too but ebay doesn't aknowledge that and has wiped out many Aussie cheap and cheerful sellers in recent weeks which will impact through the website in coming months. I have seen this dynamic before and it is brutal. As for serious Aussie business people who sell through ebay, I would imagine they are not amused by any of it.

None of it makes sense unless ebay is stealing the GST componant of the auspost postage cost. So if that theory is right ebay has savaged their core business in Australia so as to siphon Aussie postage GST to their swiss bank account.

Us aussies are complete suckers for not levying GST at international businesses. Our politicians are complicit to this hijacking of the Australian economy and should be hung for treason!!! This is the most serious of issues and is inviting multi national tax dodgers/thieves to come here and rape our economy and decimate our business landscape.

We may have sailed through the GFC but I assure it is all downhill from here.