Sorry if I offended you, I didn't mean to.
I think EBay's going to be very hard to beat. It must cost them a lot to have set it up in the first place and provide all the support etc. At least we've found auctiva so we can save on mutiple and supersized pictures and scheduled auctions.
I think the next step would be for them to create a way of letting you sell things just through your auctiva store and without involving eBay at all. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen though.