How is that possible? How can you have 100-odd items listed for 2 months yet only make 1 sale? That's almost inconceivable to me.

And here I was complaining because so far this month I've only sold 23 items from 22 sales for a gross amount of $503.20, although by the time I deduct postage, and eBay's & Paypal's fees, my nett income is only a miserable $360.60.

Admittedly I'm selling mainly low-priced items with only a couple of relatively high-ticket items amongst them, but given the effort involved and the fact that eBay, Paypal, & Australia Post are taking 28% of my gross between them, it's just not worth it.

I bend over backwards to give my buyers the best possible service yet I've already had one buyer unfairly hit me with low DSRs, and another just a couple of days ago defected me in retaliation for refusing to accept offers on 2 x $10 items which didn't even have Best Offer listed.

What hurt most was the fact that the items were posted the very same day he ordered them, and I undercharged the postage by almost $2 yet he gave me just 1 DSR star for each category on both items. I suppose I should be grateful that only one defect per transaction is recorded, but I'm still pretty upset about it.

Is it any wonder sellers are walking away in disgust? It's not only eBay's greed and the appalling conditions that we have to tolerate, but ratbag buyers who couldn't give a toss about anybody but themselves who are quite happy to screw you over for a lousy dollar as well, and it's simply no longer worth all the aggro.