It's the principle and the price creep that are so damaging. Like all other companies now, they're baking in the concept of continuous price increases, that no fee is safe or stable any more and all are game for them to rake in yet more as they wish, whenever they wish. An extra 10p here, 2% there wouldn't be so costly if just in one or two areas, every couple of years, but we're being forced to accept the increases across the board at regular intervals and they soon add up.
That fixed FVF fee hasn't changed in the dozen or so years I've used eBay. But it joins the new 'regulatory fee', the now unavoidable promotion fee, the 6 monthly Royal Mail price increases, and the constant above-inflation increases of expenses as a torrent of ways sellers are being squeezed harder than ever. And it's difficult to buy into their excuse that it's to 'enhance seller tools' or 'buyer protection' when neither of those is materially changed.
