I'm posting in this category since this is indirectly related to eBid but isn't actually eBid support related.
I've noticed that Chinese sellers on eBay will often use a Canadian PayPal account. Presumably the 30 cent CAD transaction fee (if it's the same in Canada) is less money than 30 cents USD.
In the USA you can open a PayPal account. You may or may not be able to receive money for merchandise sales but eBay payments and friends and family type transfers may work. Then it needs to have some kind of card registered to it to be partially confirmed. Then you can receive friends and family payments and eBay sales but not non eBay sales as far as I know. Once you confirm it with a bank account then all limits are removed. After you have a number of sales they'll require a social security number stating that IRS regulations require them to have it for a certain amount of sales (around $20,000 annually and a certain number of transactions), even though you're an order of magnitude under that. Who knows what they do with your SSN after that.
So other countries may have very different requirements and fees. Has anyone used an account from a different country to avoid fees? How about a friend in that country that handles your payments?