[quote name='outlawmoogle']Since when do sellers pay shipping? They usually charge the buyer more shipping than it actually costs and make even more money off of it, like the people that charge $8 shipping for a game when you can get something that weight shipped Priority for less than $5 (and even less for first class mail).[/quote]
ebay bidders as a whole aren't so stupid that they'll bid $160+free shipping from one seller, then bid $160+10 shipping from another guy. A seller charging $10 shipping simply gets about $10 less for their item than a seller with free shipping. They both still get $160 in the end, and both still have to pay for shipping out of their own pocket naturally. There's very very little advantage for the seller to gouge shipping prices anymore.
There used to be an advantage... When you searched and sorted by price, the seller who charged the most shipping could charge the least for the actual item, and when sorting by lowest price their auction would show up first. To deter sellers from doing this, eBay now lets you sort search results by total price including shipping, and they also added a feedback rating specifically for a seller's shipping charges. This not only benefits buyers, who no longer have to add shipping in their head, but it also benefits ebay: With sellers toning down their S/H costs, they'll have to increase their buy-it-now price/bidders will increase their max bid to compensate. Which means an ever-so-slightly higher final value fee for eBay, hence why I said sellers who charge more for shipping still have a slight advantage.