Just a heads up that it’s PS week over at iG’s eBay auctions, and I’ve put up loads of cheapo PS2 ones this time along with a few PS3 games for good measure. If you fancy some cheap Dragon Ball Z, Yakuza or Project Zero then check out my eBay account, and there’s still an hour left of uploading to go.

Tomorrow I’m off on some slightly further travels to pick up a load of GameCube stuff (Killer 7 hopefully, among many others) and some PS1 games. Then there’s iGPC to kick in to shape, another weeks worth of game cleaning, testing and fixing, a few 18 mile jogs, and I need to update all my postage equations again as, just incase you didn’t know…

eBay.co.uk are upping their fees in June for video games sales, albeit by slightly obscure methods. All listings in the Video Games category (among a few other new ones) will be forced to put the entire sale price in to the Bid field (as opposed to split between bid and non-eBay-fee incuring p&p fields). Obviously this means all costs one may have put in the p&p field, such as postage, packaging, payment processing, ebay auction fees and the like will now incur further fees on them. Yup, your 10% (or 9% for business sellers) eBay fvf will now be 11% due to a further 10% being charged on the original 10% (well, depends where you put that 10% before I guess…). Plus 10% on everything else; I recon it comes to a further 20p worth of fees for most of my sales (mostly around ~£5 end values) going to eBay. Sadly this cost will just go to increasing the start price of goods for customers on eBay, although at least they might stop with the high P&P complaints against everyone.

TBH I pretty much prefer it that way; many bidders clearly can’t get it in to their heads that they’re the ones who determine the final price, not the seller. P&P costs are set to much more than you might think, and if you think they’re high, try a real etailer with their £5.00 for a small fan shipping charge. And they don’t even have to pay eBay 10% on that So anyway, eBay have pretty much created a level playing field in terms of buyer perception of costs. Shame it’ll just cost everyone more.