Is the postage increase going to hurt ebay?

I was just going to post a question along these lines. My daughters asked my niece to order a couple of books through Scholastic as she is a school teacher. I was unaware that my niece is not reliable when it comes to things like this. So I decided to check for the books on ebay. I couldn't believe it when I found one that is for sale at $2.49 US but costs $19.99 to ship to Canada. Why in the world would I want to pay 20 bucks for a 2 dollar book? And I wanted another book too but it is being sold by a different seller so they would be shipped separately with separate shipping charges. This seems totally ridiculous to me. Add to that, I was logged into ebay.ca that is ca for Canada but I am getting a bunch of products being sold out of the US at US prices. So what is the point of having an ebay.ca? I was just going to attempt to sell concert tickets on ebay and now I'm wondering if that is such a good idea after all.

I really doubt that it is going to hurt eBay at all. A majority of the auctions I look at are already gouging people for shipping, so the extra 50 cents to ship a package isn't going to affect this. So many items have $8-$10 for a shipping price when priority shipping costs $4 that I really doubt that eBay is going to see any lack of business - people are already paying insane amounts to have stuff shipped and the postage increase isn't going to change that in my opinion.

I don't think it is going to hurt ebay very much. Whether a person buys from ebay, another on-line store, or a catalog - postal rates are going up in the US. As long as the total price (price + shipping and handling) is less than a person would pay locally OR the item is something that is not available locally ebay will still be a viable option.

I, too, was thinking of selling on ebay. I hear a lot of positive on that but with postage going up I will be interested in the same questions, Sherry. I will be following this discussion very close to see what the opinion of others are.