The May fee restructuring closed the loophole I was using to sell high priced items.
Prior to that you could use a Classified Ad with Best Offer listing and only pay $70 total (19.99 listing fee and a final value fee capped at $50 maximum). Plus it still appeared with the regular listings (Auctions/Buy It Now).
Face it, ebay has become more of an advertising medium now than an actual selling medium for high priced items. They are still the best option for advertising only and making your item "known" in terms of coverage.
Pinball dealers use this all the time in the hope they attract a newbie to an overpriced machine. The same machines appear on eBay, and what dealer's don't recognize is the fact that relisting a pinball machine for months on end suggests that the dealer cannot move machines. So it has been a great idea to list machines as advertising, but you need to change the titles around, otherwise more questions are raised. I list one game every 2 years, and I get a LOT of work from just the one listing.
I don't accept Paypal as a payment method unless the buyer pays all the fees. Messy situation that no one wants to get involved with.
