I've known wonderful storefront (brick and mortar) shops who had to move when their greedy landlords raised the rent. What ebay is doing to us, their faithful sellers (I have a store there) with 100% positive feedbacks and high star ratings, is deeply depressing.
I am looking into a number of other venues to sell my wares. I signed up with eCrater.com, artandcraftauctions.com, SilkFair.com, Etsy, and PowerSellersUnite. I am looking at the others too. I plan to move listings or list new handcrafted jewelry items on several sites to "test the waters."
I can see the handwriting is "on the wall", as in the Bible's old testament: weighed, measured and found wanting (English translation). We have been weighed and measured and found wanting by ebay and they think they will make more money by remaking their site entirely after getting rid of these little noisy worker bees. We take up their time (asking for the bugs to be worked out of their site, and tools, and complaining about things like customers who refuse to pay us, and web space with thousands (make that millions) of odd little items, and we want too much respect.
You know, I will probably be one of the people who will benefit and pay less fees under the new pay structure because out of the thousands of items listed in my store I only sell 40 to 70 a month. It is the other changes that really depress me. I hate to be where I'm not valued and appreciated. My customers love me but eBay sees me as "NOISE." It is time to move. I can imagine sometime soon "turning the lights out" in my ebay store and walking away forever. I want the sellers who I have purchased things from on ebay to know that it was good to be your customer. I would like to know where all of you will end up so I can buy things from you there in the future.