I and most others have long said that it's hard to make a buck on ebay, with the ultra competitive marketplace and the exorbitant fees. It's true, you pretty much have to over-price your items in order to come out with any decent profit. This means then, that items often get over hyped or fluffed up as better than they are, in order for the seller to end up with just a nominal profit. This is not a good thing for anyone...the buyer (who gets something that doesn't quite live up to its description), the seller (who is at risk of unhappy buyers ruining his ebay status and costing him even higher fees), and ebay whom neither the buyers nor the sellers are happy with. Ebay has a lot of overhead costs, I'm sure. But, my thoughts still come back to the usual culprit in such matters in our society...capitalism. Ebay is a publicly traded company on the stock exchange. What does this mean. They feel they have to make every buck they can to distribute to their wealthy stockholders, rather than give we lowly sellers a break. You see, if we'd all had the good sense (and financial ability of course) to invest in Ebay stock before or at the time we decided to become 'ebayers', then we'd be sharing in the wealth. It's the only way to make money on Ebay!!! sorry...I get carried away!
