And Amazon, and a whole host of other sites. The problem is that eBay controls about 80% of the entire online auction market. If you go to Yahoo or Amazon or somewhere else, your chances of making a successful sale are much lower, and if you do get bids you're likely not to get as many, and thus not make as much money.
Actually, I think it's even worse than that. I have a bot monitoring Amazon's auctions site for a certain keyword, and I have, honestly, seen a *lot* of the same items continually advertised for over THREE YEARS without a single bid. And they're not bizarre obscurities; they're normal items that I know would sell during a single 4-6 day listing on eBay.
In short, if you want any real chance of selling your item and getting a decent profit on it, you have no real choice except eBay.
In any case, I think this policy is eventually going to come around and bite eBay on the ass. Wait until they get hit with a $50 million dollar suit for handing over someone's credit card numbers to a 16-year-old who forged a fax with his local PD's "letterhead" on it. (How long would that take to mock up, five minutes?)