If I recall this is largely why eBay started charging the seller fees on the shipping cost (boy was that a loophole) and then heavily pushed sellers to move to

If I recall this is largely why eBay started charging the seller fees on the shipping cost (boy was that a loophole) and then heavily pushed sellers to move to free shipping. On the flip side, as an eBay seller it's kind of painful to know that if I sell something for $X, shipping is eating $3+ of that - on top of the 10% cut for eBay and the 2% for PayPal. It makes it not worthwhile to me to list anything below $10.