Okay.

Here goes. E-Bay raises their fee and Duhhhhhhh I raise the rpice of my product to the buyer and nobody says anything, cause if you don’t want to pay X amount for something — someone else will!

No problem, here, folks. Move along, and by the way that is an expensive hat, I’m wearing. Mark Hamil signed it.

God didn’t create the internet.

Neither did Al Gore. You know who created the internet?

Vikings.

you’re right.. it’s a monopoly. ebay can do what they want. there is no real competition.
however, you’re wrong about the feedback issue-as a seller i do, as many do, care about the reputation of the buyer. it’s not as simple as you said-we get paid -so what. if it’s not a verified paypal member-or a postal money order-the only kind that cannot be stopped-good as cash, the buyer can mess up your sale after you’ve shipped and paypal will take their money back out of your account-this happens when thieves phish and bid with some other persons account-i lost the goods and the payment was reversed. all i could do is file a police report in my jurisdiction-which equals nothing. and i also place in my account prefs, like many sellers, no zero or neg feedback bidders allowed without contacting me for approval first, you can even configure it so they CAN’T bid if they are zero feedback. nothing worse than 10 credible bids only for some loser to win with no feedback and then you don’t get paid. this is not a good idea. also, it shows how fast they pay as well.. bad idea to remove feedback. it should be fair to both sides. fine, jack up the fees, but we need history on the bidder-esp on big ticket items.

Have user feed back that covers both, if your a douch buyer, then no one will buy from you.

Problem solved.