I have to use the gallery cvd because I don't sell a generic product or product range, therefore I don't pay a generic price when buying in. A lot of it is 'skin of teeth' stuff, depending on what the buying public want at the minute.
To be quite honest, everything else e..y have done aside, the fact that the .com site is getting free gallery and we aren't, is the biggest annoyance to me. I think they must have been testing it out for a while because I used to list some items on .com and over the last 6 months a lot of the time the gallery fees were for free. It actually worked out a lot cheaper for me to list in the US rather than the UK.
Actually, for the first time ever, I think I am going to be able to put some of my stuff on as BIN. I can just put an average mark-up on things and know that what I charge is what I get, rather than either risking items selling for the starting price and paying all the associated fees, or having to raise prices (on you-know-where) to cover my BIN fees.