That's it guys, when you're knocked dowm, get up, dust yourself off and start agian. You will find sometihng you LIKE selling, I've sold alsorts of crap I hated selling. Then I found a niche and it was a pleasure to work with the buyers. :)
Selling ebooks, i've consistantly made $4K per month from December to now, even though Jan and Feb are known as slow months! :
As for the original question 'whos making a profit on ebay?' I think we all know eBay is! 8)