Well it seems that we may not even be a 3rd Class. To me it seems that eBay.ca might be at the bottom of the eBay universe. Just look at other ones and you'll know what I mean.
As an example, lets analyse eBay India (Baazee.com). eBay India has something called the "Super Seller". To actually reach Super Seller Status, its not even based on sales but based on feedback score! You need 20 Unique Feedbacks minimum, 10 new Feedbacks a month, at least 90% Positive Feedback rating and ongoing activity.
As a Super Seller, you get an S symbol beside your User ID, which is alot smaller then the Power Seller logo. You also get access to the "Buy it now" service and get this, PRIORITY featuring opportunities on the home page and category pages including first priority of Super Seller products/promotions in the Direct Mailers to eBay India users. There is also a Priority Hotline for Super Sellers Only, so any Super Seller can get that phone hotline support number regardless. From the looks of it what differences do we have with even eBay India? Nothing that major.
eBay India also has something called the Baazee Privilege Club. This club is like a VIP Member status in which sellers CAN provide the club members with special offers to only those within the club and it has other interesting benefits as well. eBay India seems also to be holding more seminars then we do in Canada, I might be wrong. eBay India also has Trading Assistant services. There website is very interesting and I love how they have the bottom layout in auction ads, which is sharp and html style compared to our text based look, which looks like crap (where it says shipping and return policy etc) go figure.
Anyhow regarding Fees, eBay India works much differently, they actually charge you Final Value Fees based on the Category your item is listed on which ranges from 1% to 10%. So instead of a fixed Final Value Fee, this one is variable.
Just my two cents.