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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2197167, member: 27832&quot;]Oh, I&#039;d love to see this as well, but I can&#039;t imagine that it will happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started selling on eBay (before the turn of the century), Final Value Fees were a tiny fraction of their current level, but listing fees were significant, and the listing fee was higher for items with a higher starting bid. It wasn&#039;t a straight percentage, as I recall, but some sort of level/threshold arrangement.</p><p><br /></p><p>This led to some bad behaviors. First, reserve prices were a lot more common -- and buyers <i>hated</i> reserves (and still do). It was frustrating to put in a bid, see &quot;reserve not met&quot;, and have no idea whether you were short by 5% or 500%.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, sellers would list items with 99-cent starting bids and no reserve, and if they were unhappy with the bidding, they&#039;d either cancel the auction shortly before its end or find an excuse not to sell to the high bidder.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think eBay decided that their current approach -- cheap or free listings, with higher FVFs -- would increase their total number of listings, and that was their goal. They want to be seen as the go-to online venue, with the biggest selection, and increasing their listing count is one part of that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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