Billn,
You don't believe3 Ebay would take a bribe (ie: sellers buying their way out of DSR's)?
Don't kid me. They are already taking every high dollar avenue they can. That article may be a spoof, but I would bet you dollars to doughnuts that much of it will come true in the next few years.
Ebay doesn't realize it has built people's businesses, only to tear them apart piece by piece. They have literally ruined some people's lives.
Just like the California tax system, you can't keep "taking" from people who have been abused by the gov't without an eventual collase of the system. People are fleeing California in droves since they decided that raising taxes was a better idea than lowering them. The legislators think they know better than the people they represent and won't even listen to them when the majority is overwhelming! People are fleeing Ebay in the same way, because Ebay knows better than the peons who sell there (and pay their salaries too!).
It's such an interesting parallel.
Some other company will come along sooner or later. Right now, ebay still has name recognition, but even comanies like Microsoft and IBM went by the wayside sooner or later.
Ebay is a dinosaur.