3-4 years ago they included shipping into the fees because they use to bill just selling price.
Since they caught on that a 50$ item was being sold at $1.00 buy it now with $49 shipping thats when they changed it.
Now they get the full item value percent.
That makes sense. Except when you are a legitimate business trying to use Ebay.
Shipping varies greatly on big heavy items that you never know if they are shipping to Texas, Maine or Floriduh.
They should just set rules and enforce them!
That dumb rule only makes sense on Flat rate shipping!
We have technology that they can easily use, Ebay is a bunch of crooks.