eBay sellers looking to replace Auctiva?

eBay sellers have been informed that Auctiva will begin charging for it’s auction listing services in a few weeks. Having got by on revenue generated from leads and reselling of bulk-purchased parcel Insurance coverage, the eBay affiliate has had four years to build up a large base of users. Similar to the pushers in old government anti-drug propaganda films, all the kids got their free taste. Now it’s pay-for-play as eBay brown shirts continue to kick the small ‘Mom & Pop’ sellers in the teeth. Amazon they will never be, but I wonder how long it will be until eBay abandons an auction format altogether.
Any way, an industry-related online newsletter mentioned that Auctiva is part of an approved eBay program, as are the following online auction loading sites: InkFrog, AuctionSound, EZLister.net, Iwascoding, My StoreCredit, Seller Sourcebook and AutoRevo.
I scoped out the situation to see what the skinny was on the competition. In a nutshell here is information gathered from each site.

1. InkFrog: $9.95/mo for:

Image Hosting* (1 GB, ~12000 images)
Lister / Scheduler One-step auction listing and scheduling
Sales Manager Safe, secure checkout for your buyers
Inventory Track your auctions and item inventory
Showcase Allow buyers to browse all your auctions
Counters Comprehensive traffic monitoring
Bulk Editor & More Additional services and email customer support

2. AuctionSound starts at $25/mo.

3. EZLister.net = 250 listings for $56 minimum package.

4. Iwascoding = for Mac users.

5. My StoreCredit tells you nearly nothing but promotes Maps & Rewards programs

6. Seller Sourcebook:

$8.00/month or $21.00/quarterly or $70.00/annual
300mb Image Hosting: NO bandwidth limits, per image fees, expiration dates, auto image deletion.
Ability to post listings directly to eBay.com & FREE Scheduling.
Free Product Showcase on eBay: Cross promote with scrolling product showcase.
Access to our entire Template Library.
Access to our online Listing Generator: no HTML needed.
Ability to use with other auction sites.
Use of Coordinating About Me Pages.

7. AutoRevo = for car dealers, car sales sites

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Seeing the ridiculous prices suckers are willing to pay for POS Teisco electric guitars from the 60's & 70's inspired me to write a review on eBay. Low quality mass produced slabs of painted and varnished wood was shipped to the USA market by the Japan manufacturer. These beginner six strings were sold under many names at many outlets. They were lower quality shiny birthday, graduation and Christmas gifts. The bulk of these cheap knock-offs found their way into the back of closets, spaces under beds and tucked away in basements before their first anniversary came around. More young people were probably turned off from learning to play than were ever inspired by the high, hard to work action of thick, club-like necks. So when I keep seeing guitars that cost 19.95 to 34.95 when new -and that's about all most of them are really worth even now- repeatedly going for $100.00 and up on auction, it made me sad. People are buying these things and tucking them away to sell for double what they paid a year or two from now. Good luck. Guitars are made to be played, and there are plenty of reasonably priced Fender Squier Stratocaster and Telecaster models to be had. The introductory line Squier models are made with manufacturing techniques not available when Fender started electric guitar production in the 1950's. Better quality of components are used as well, the price offset by mass production. I've bought Fender Squier Strats used and new from $60.00 to $225.00 and every one of them was worth every penny. Like a good car, I either got my money back or made a little on every Strat I've sold. As for the Teisco's and the many names they were sold under, good luck with them. They don't get better with age and price.