I worked out the other day using an ebay calculator

that in total for a £400 Buy it now item – in total with insertion fees, final value fees and paypal fees –

ebay are taking in total around 20% of the purchase cost of the item in charges

. and that includes taking fees on the cost of your postage whatever that may cost you – in my case £20 for the particular item, they even charge compound paypal fees on the proportion of money you receive that they will end up taking off you in charges for the auction ? whichever way you look at it ebay is a rip-off, why because thats more expensive in total than selling through a physical auction which normally charges 15% to the seller and alot less for vehicles? a web service like ebay should be around the 10% of purchase level of cost at maximum, otherwise its less cost effective than a physical auction? we should all have an ebay strike where we stop listing stuff for a week in the year, otherwise ebay will never listen.