"look at ebay as one big super shopping centre .. & we are sub leasing some floor space"

yes and then they force you to put advertisements for competition retailers in your front window and charge you a commission on your business operating costs (eg, commission on postage) and to make matters worse routinely hide your shop/items as punishment for not selling enough thus becoming a self fulfilling prophecy ..

this place could easily send you insane as it would appear that no amount of effort will result in consistent/any profits and many here are now liquidating stock and exiting .. be careful .. I personally find it extremely difficult to take this place seriously and am straining my brain looking for alternatives .. I reluctantly still use ebay but note that to sell I need to savagely discount and even then often won't get a sale as am well hidden via best match and/or cassini ..

it seriously distresses me when I see ebay insiders/gamers outselling me 10 to 1 even though their prices are double what I charge and everything about my DSR and ratings is very good or better than theirs .. I had a gutful of ebay many years ago and unfortunately am still stuck here unsuccessfully attempting to milk this corrupted botched cow of an interface ..

I find for the mostpart that a handful of sellers with massive bloated slow selling inventories now fairly much dominate each category and that a lot of the truly unique stuff is no longer sold here and they are moving back to conventional auction houses where their items can be seen/found by prospective buyers ..

In My Opinion the people who are often found on these boards spruiking ebay are obviously content with a few table scraps randomly swept in their general direction from time to time and are happy to see injustice and chaos prevail ..

anyway I think it is too late to fix this place now and as soon as something remotely viable appears I will grab onto it with both hands but unfortunately ebay dominates the online auction market in Australia and it is obvious they will go to extreme lengths to eradicate any viable competition .. as a buyer and seller all we can do is vote with our wallets when the cost is too high ..

The recent commission on postage has seen a flurry or restructuring and inconvenience for many ebay sellers and many simply cannot afford to sell here any more ..

Many corporates/businesses have become remarkably grubby in recent times and have resorted to underhanded and fineprint tactics to legally exploit consumers .. obviously our ACCC is toothless and useless ..