Many Ebay stores are operated this way. Many are sole proprietorships with themselves as the single employee. All profit goes to them but they still often barel

Many Ebay stores are operated this way. Many are sole proprietorships with themselves as the single employee. All profit goes to them but they still often barely have enough to scrape by in day to day life. Whether its called "profit" or "the cost of paying your sole employee a living wage" is mainly a semantic difference. Are these companies operating "at-cost", or earning a profit?