That's fair enough, but let's bear in mind that business sellers will have got the stuff cheap/cheapish in the first place, whereas genuine private sellers are generally trying to get as much back as they can on items they originally paid retail money for.
With the old system, I could list, say, a camera filter I haven't used (another of my sadly failed hobbies) for a quid less than a business seller, while utilising an 80% off fees offer. It might briefly cost him one sale, but I've only got one, so now I'm out of his hair and he's all good. With the new system, there are no selling offers, and private sellers have to discount every price by the cost of seller protection in order to compete with business sellers, on top of the hassle of doing the maths.
That's not your fault, and I appreciate your argument, but I'd like to see ebay directing their energy at more deserving targets, whether it be business sellers pretending to be private, or people flogging fakes. Take the camera filter for example, I've got a hard time getting half of what it cost, simply because ebay is full of Chinese fakes driving the price down. Stuff like that hurts all of us.
