My bill for the last few months has been $100 or 
a bit over that amount just in fees! And that is 
only for like 8-17 (varies) items every once in a 
while to sell-I sell other items besides anime 
and a cel once in a while, and I quit this new 
year unless I really had to sell something there. 

Costs like if you have a hundred dollar item 
something like almost three dollars to sell it, 
then you pay when it gets sold! And their 
customer service is lacking and when the little 
guy gets stunned, they really are hard to get a 
hold of to help-plus if someone left negative 
feedback because they are snotty to the nice 
seller or  a lier, a seller's feedback is ruined. 
They need to do something about that-I had to 
start blocking bidders who give me a problem, but 
that's only been one person, but the only way to 
deal with it, because Ebay won't help. 

And they keep on raising their prices and check 
the forums, there are a LOT of unhappy people 
because things don't work, Ebay doesn't protect 
you and they are ripping you off. 

It also is popular because they have actors and 
famous people endorsing the site and everything, 
that is how I found out about Ebay, but it really 
does stink for fees. Don't see how anyone could 
make any money off Ebay unless they bought whole 
sale or something, but it is the only place to 
get rid of something you don't want anymore or 
sell it I say. And yes, it does drive up prices 
when people bid like mad, but I try to put a buy 
it now price for either less or the price I paid 
for the cel or item and maybe "one" of the 
reasons cel prices go up, but we would need a 
financial person studying everything to say for 
sure. *shrugs* 

Still hate it, but no place else to go that 
people will know about. Yahoo has a mini-bad rep. 
for being more messed up and unworkable in the 
past, maybe why not popular or if they had some 
famous people endorsing or a better marketing 
team or manager-or someone to bring that site to 
the public's eye more, who knows?