Revised Ebay rules under the guise of lowering shipping costs for Canadians is actually going to cause the opposite effect. This procedure is made to induce Canadian sellers to lower shipping or even offer Free postage (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)! - perhaps someday if Canadian postage is inline with USA postage perhaps...

While Final value Fees will drop from 12% to 11%, the 11% will be calculated against the entire sale INCLUDING POSTAGE, whereas previously it was only based on the item sold. In essence there is now a new tax on postage that Ebay collects and that sellers are expected to pay!

In the end buyer will pay more (as seller will be losing more), and EBAY will garnish larger profits!

Way to go Ebay!!

Actually, I can only hope it drives a dagger in the heart of the scum (especially in the card section) who sell high value cards at $1 with $35 shipping (or X-1 where X is the real value of the card plus shipping)..

Yes, in theory the lazy folks at EBay could actually follow-up on the complaints registered, but it's always been easier for them to just screw everyone over...

Ebay is finding ways to make more money, but small sellers are less and less likely to use them I think.

I've been seeing a lot of sellers moving to the US Amazon site. I don't know how the fees compare, but Troll and Toad appear to have moved the bulk of their third-party singles sales away from eBay and onto Amazon.

April Fool's?

If this isn't April Fool's, then that is the last straw that has driven me away from selling on eBay for good.

How many clients/sellers do they expect to keep?

Sorry this is no joke ---

The thing is, the free market should be sticking that dagger into that already. You have the choice to not buy from a-holes who do that. If I see a shipping price that's far more outrageous for what it is, I do the wise consumer thing and don't buy from them.

This is pretty silly though. It's ebay squeezing out more cents out of the consumer. No thanks. I gave up selling on ebay a while ago and this may just make me not bother looking as often as I do on the site.

It's the perfect way to drive consumers away from your site.

All that means for me is more shopping on the Realms and less on eBay.
Not necessarily a bad thing.

It's not the wise consumer thing, because YOUR price is exactly the same as it should be. $34 with $1 shipping or $1 with $34 shipping. Your total price is still $35. It's Ebay that loses money, and other sellers who look overpriced (tho the mythical smart consumer would figure it out). And even more frustrating is that the same sellers do it constantly, get reported and nothing gets done about it.

Oh wait, except EBay just jerks everyone around by adding shipping to their part of it...tho it DOES solve the problem...

Ebay wah! Even before they bought out PayPal they have been finding more ways to squeeze any profit you guys who still sell over there would make. So even if you sell elsewhere and only accept paypal, you are just making more money for ebay. On ebay, I only buy from sellers who will ignore the rules and let me pay with a money order and I quit selling there many years ago. I will never use paypal, so those of you who only accept it are just missing out on more profitable sales, while funding the global evil known as ebay. I blame you (not the O.P., per se, just "you" in the general sense).