As of May, selling fee is up from 7.9% to 9.9% with the cap lifted from $100 to $250 for the first 100 items per month. I very rarely sell on eBay, mainly use it to advertise. i use Gumtree a lot, got to put up with endless scammers, lowballers and tyre kickers in general, but no fees.
eBay is the only auction I know of where the seller pays the sale fee and the (buyers) PayPal fee. Talk about double dipping.
This is probably why you see the disturbing trend of an item being pulled at the last minute, probably a deal being done outside of ebay.
Free listings = cheap advertising.
Unfortunately ebay own Gumtree so who knows when selling fees are going to creep into Gumtree.
