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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Yes, I would be among the many who would undoubtedly leave the eBay scene if these changes took place. What a sickening limitation of personal freedom! What would scare me away the most is if Robert's prediction of eBay's charging fees on S&H becomes true. It's none of eBay's business how much somebody charges for shipping. As I stated in another thread, eBay doesn't seem to understand that insured shipping on a valuable item will demand a high cost. But, as we all know, bidders won't bite if you have a high opening bid, so you have to start your items out with a small opening amount. I truly took no issue to eBay's monopoly of the online auction format until they started thinking that they were all-powerful. eBay will obviously blame the government for these new restrictions, but none of us are so ignorant as to entirely accept this canned response as fact. The eBay fortress will come crumbling down in short order if these rules become carved in stone. It's a safe bet that competing online auction venues will start to see an upsurge in business in the not-too-distant future.