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This is a good fee reducing tip. Unfortunately, it is also one of the reasons that ebay moved their hosted images to the top of the page. More image revenue for them as they know people look at pictures at the top and then move on without scrolling the whole page. Ebay knows that your user hosted images are down the bottom.
It seems that Japan and Australia are the only two countries that have taken the Ebay/Paypal monopoly to task. In Japan ebay failed because Yahoo auctions beat them at their own game and they closed in 2002. The Japanese consumer also seems to be quite canny and understood that Yahoo was giving them a better deal. Australia blocked the Paypal only policy as anti-competitive. Which is what it is. Remember Nochex?
Yahoo auctions was great because of the timer system. It was a true auction in the sense that it wasn't over until everyone had bid. If you bid up in the last 10 seconds (sniped) it would add another 5 minutes to the auction and so on. No snipe overbids.
I hope in the long term a decent ebay/paypal alternative comes along but it seems like it is a long way away.
Ebay/Paypal & Financial law flouting: http://www.finextra.com/community/Fullblog.aspx?id=1195