Personally, I'd look at the math rather then the feedback.
I did a really quick analysis of the change in fees. The gallery fee elimination is a ridiculous joke. On both the insertion side and the the final value side of the ledger, the seller who starts an auction over $25 gets a 1/6 reduction in inserion fees (less than $25 starting price gets a smaller reduction on all tiers.)
On final values, there is an increase of over 60% in final value fee for the first $25 in value with a drastic dropoff in this increase for final value over $25. Plus power sellers still get their 15% discount.
For perspective, insertion fees are decreasing 8-12%; while final value fees initially increase 60+%
I believe that all sellers still get a discount for driving traffic from their own websites (which they have to drive traffic to) to ebay, if a sale results. But this is a lot of work.
What this means in terms of final value is that if you are now being charged 88 cents vs 53 cents on a $10 sale; $1.76 vs. $1.06 on a $20 sales. Additionally, on sales of these type the insertion fee reduction will be less than 10%
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Len
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