... and their money printing arm PayPal ....
they have been fiddling those charging policies as well .. they really don't want you to use credit cards to buy in foreign currency as they want you to use their more expensive built-in conversion facility. Each time I set the PayPal default to use card conversion only sometime later on PayPal sneak in and change it back to their own more expensive version.
eBay/Pal are a monopoly and need slapping down as they continually manipulate charges in their favour whilst trying to make out its good for both sellers and buyers. If there was a REAL alternative I would use it !