Is Ebay Moving Away From The Average Seller?

Sellers who use Ebay are having an ever increasing hard time making ends meet. Not only do they have to deal with the fact that the economy is not doing so well, but also with Ebay's ever changing policies. They began the seller bashing by increasing the fees both for Ebay and Paypal and if that wasn't enough they also decided that comments from the seller regarding buyer transactions had no significants. During this time the sellers had two separate boycotts to attempt to show Ebay how unhappy they were with the policy changes. Ebay to date has not only not changed any of their policies back, but has made further steps away from the average seller. Recently they have begun allowing buy.com to list large quantities of merchandise at a lower cost that Ebays average sellers. Between the larger quantities and the lower to no cost shipping the buy.com merchandise will be showing higher up the list than everyone else's thus getting more of the sales. Does Ebay not realize that the very people that are average sellers that they are turning their backs on are also the same people that do much of the purchasing?