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In a nutshell, eBay isn't viable as a business. All fees including shipping and taxes, with a perfect account standing still amounted to 40% margin across that whole timespan. No one can acquire product through legitimate distribution channels and afford commercial space and employee wages (even your own), and have enough margin to sustain a business for any length of time. eBay is only useful for liquidation of goods and for situations where exchange rates can be exploited like with China for the last 20+ years. It takes 3 months+ to close the books on any given item. They do not want you to know the total overhead you are paying to sell items.
With AliEx is was only around $50 and something like 3 orders. The amount is irrelevant to me. I spent several thousand dollars on there in total. Theft is all the same to me. That is a measure of true ethics. If I let it happen, it will happen again, and it will be entirely my fault for allowing it and doing nothing. I have ethical boundaries that life has taught me never to budge on. I operate under these same principals when I interact with others. I learned the hard way when I was a kid.