After ten years selling on ebay I still don't know why I do it. I feel like a battered wife who continually returns to her abusive husband because he's convinced her he's the only one who will ever love her. Or a hostage whose dependence on her kidnapper starts to confusingly feel like love. Every year in the Spring they announce their "improvements" which inevitably includes higher fees, lower discounts and smaller hoops with bigger flames to jump through in order to keep the great rewards I've already earned. They're so busy trying to compete with Amazon they have NO IDEA who their sellers are anymore. They forget that it was THE SMALL BUSINESSES who BUILT EBAY and individual people who sell UNIQUE AND INTERESTING ITEMS THAT YOU CANNOT FIND ON PLACES LIKE AMAZON. And still even though I've spent so much precious time and energy sourcing beautiful items and present impeccable listings I don't get enough traffic because i'm still somehow forced to compete with Chinese sweatshop junk and to jump through these ridiculous hoops that no small seller of unique items should have to jump through in order to get any traffic at all. HAVING TO ACCEPT RETURNS OF ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE JEWELRY AND CLOTHES WITHIN THIRTY DAYS? ARE YOU KIDDING? I should be able to charge a rental fee. And now this year they've announced they're not only INCREASING the seller standards for top rated sellers but DECREASING the discount! Why should I bother? Here's what I think: They should separate eBay into two factions -eBay USED / and eBay NEW (eBazon) eBay USED would operate like the traditional glorious eBay of long ago: Powerseller/ No powerseller. Lower the fees, give everyone an level playing ground and let the quality of the listings and the product speak for itself. Sellers who throw their junk on the floor and take crappy photos will get the consequent lack of sales and they'll either learn to raise the bar for themselves or stick to selling off their lawn. The eBay NEW can do what it does to compete with Amazon and let the big box sellers duke it out over the margins of their cheap overseas chotchkies. Either way they better do SOMETHING because hardworking sellers like myself are dropping like flies.