I've got the world's smallest violin playing right here for the sellers justifying inflated shipping charges based on the fees eBay charges. First, eBay provides sellers with a valuable service, including Web hosting, transaction assistance, and attracting millions of potential customers to look at their listings. If the fees are too high for that service, then they ought to have no problem setting up their own e-commerce stores, if they think they can do so more cheaply and with the same effectiveness in attracting customers. But if they've decided that eBay is an acceptable service to use in facilitating their businesses, then they need to follow the rules that they agreed to as a condition of taking advantage of the benefits of that service. And second, if the practice of fee avoidance by hiding the true costs of items in bogus shipping and handling charges were not so widespread and more sellers played by the rules, then eBay would be able to charge lower seller fees all around. Keep in mind that eBay has an incentive not to charge excessive fees to sellers, because if fees get too high, more sellers are going to decide that setting up their own e-commerce site is a more efficient way to do business.