Ebay is not what it used to be. Ive noticed as a buyer, that unique items don't pop up nearly as frequently as they did when ebay had a monopoly on this marketplace. A lot of frustrated sellers like you have decided to take their business elsewhere. You would now would be time that ebay did everything to keep you here, because there are other options. But they're doing everything possible to drive sellers away. When you have competition, that's when you lower fees, to make doing business here more enticing. Instead, they raise fees, make listing harder, make shipping harder, and the overall experience a pain. They're nickel and diming you at every chance to where you can't make a profit anymore.
Competition was the best thing that ever happened to ecommerce. Like a lot of sellers I diversified across multiple platforms long ago and eBay now accounts for less than 20% of my sales. Many sites/venues do not have the buyer base that eBay has, which is changing, but their fees are lower, their restricted items lists are smaller, there is no VERO program and there is a balance between buyer and seller protection.
A lot of the alternatives are also very market place focused on particular lines that have a focused set of buyers in areas like coins, comics, trading cards, etc. So the buyer base may be smaller but it is very focused.
