Hey Jeff,
Thanks for posting.

556 ain't bad!! For you.
I paid 1000 USD for mine new in box about 2 years ago.
Best investment I ever made (after plane tickets to the USA of course!).
The fees are criminal. If I was in the USA selling on EBay (which I will be in the near future) I'd bloody make everyone pay via bank deposit.
As it is, most of my customers are USA and I charge them PayPal fees if they use it, and I encourage international bank transfer.
Anyone from Aus has to use bank transfer.
Oh yeah!! And it's actually worse for us. As you know, the price I pay for something on US Ebay depends on the day I pay, because of exchange rates. PayPal's exchange rate makes me pay more than if I paid outside EBay! E.g. exchange rate = 77 US c = 1 AU $. PayPal gives me 74.5 or some ****! It's evil.
- Alistair