Of course Ebay had their reasons. The economy downturn is probably making sales go down. Those guys at the top still need their bonus you know! The stockholders must see numbers go up.
Somehow I sent a blank email. The pink thing was an announcment by a boycott organizer, not written by me. I thought they did a more concise job of explaining it than I could. I am sure they are not English teachers though, just upset sellers that are organizing and searching for alternative auction sites. This has been on CNN, Reuter's & the New York Times. The attention and first boycott was in Feb.
They are making it so that sellers cannot give buyers feedback, only buyers can give sellers feedback. That means if a crook wants to jack you up for your stuff and not pay you, you have no recourse. They are pretending to lower fees by now making that little picture called a gallery picture free. They are jacking up their cut of the final sale at the end. They have upped the percent they get of your final sale.
More information can be found on Ebay's own discussion boards. At times Ebay personell remove threads, especially if they contain links. But there are pages and pages of upset sellers posting on there. Just go to their discussion boards & see the upset sellers and read the horror stories about people being ripped off while they were still able to give buyers feedback.
There are alternative auction sites such as ioffer, bidville and ecrater that a mass movement of people are considering. More info can be found at the Delphi forms board. I personally hope someone like yahoo or Amazon swoops in & competes. They have the money to advertise.
Ebay spin doctors try to spin things to look as if they are cutting seller fees, but they are tacking them on at the end.