ebay is killing itself (Score 1)

I have been selling on ebay for years and I know one thing for certain, ebay is killing itself. It is a nasty cycle that has started. Remember when a seller could list for under 30 cents and there was no such thing as a gallery picture????????? Over the past few years ebay has been increasing the selling fees dramatically. I am a small business/artist, and it is killing me. This is my thought, it is a nasty domino affect. Ebay raises the prices to list and sell to try to control the opening bid (and to make more money for themselves)......sellers have to raise their prices to compensate for the increases in selling. Ebay started the stores option, which allowed sellers to list in their store for less and only get hit hard for the final value fee. Ebay decided that the balance was uneven and increased the prices to sellers for the stores....... So, I work 16 hours a day, every day, no such thing as a weekend around here, to give ebay/paypal 20%. If you want to see ebay prosper it needs to go back to where it all started. One post comes to mind, that a seller had to relist 4 times. Each time that item is relisted the seller pays for it. So now a video game that should have sold for $10 has to sell for $15. The more it sells for the more ebay takes, the more paypal takes. It is a hard gamble to take to list an item at a price that makes you lose money. Personally, I am trapped with ebay. I need an income to survive. No other site comes close to offering me the volume of buyers that ebay has. Ebay knows it. My saving grace is I love the art I make...so sadly, with ebay I remain.