This is one of the major reason sites like craigslist keep holding out and growing strong despite ebay. Eg in france "leboncoin" has become one of the mainstay,

This is one of the major reason sites like craigslist keep holding out and growing strong despite ebay. Eg in france "leboncoin" has become one of the mainstay, it's free and has no fees, they make money by selling listing "bonuses" (get at the top, etc ...). If you're selling a 100e item every couple of months, ebay fees and overall costs look ridiculous. I guess that's also why ebay turned more and more toward commercial sellers, but by doing so they also took that weird spot being neither a good b2c store nor a good c2c place, at least in my mind. Still, they are very well ranked for traffic share in France (they're at 17th, leboncoin at 7th, amazon at 6th).