Postage Charge - Age Verification

[fruitbat00]

I'm an occasional private seller and completely confused by the new postage rules. I listed an antique saw and included Royal Mail Tracked 48 with age verification. Buyer has paid £8.03 for this and it is still available as an option on the Royal Mail website. Ebay now wants me to pay £23.41 for a postage label with UPS. It really isn't worth me selling on this basis. The Royal Mail option is not available on the listed couriers at all. What are my options?

[tressygirl]

There have been quite a few reports today from sellers seeing a vast increase in some of their postage on listings,  beyond just a few pence / pounds.

Not sure if it's some technical issue perhaps as new postage charges where supposedly added to Simple Delivery items from yesterday.

I have tagged kat@ebay  a community manager here if she can shed some light on these astronomical postage increases.

@fruitbat00 

[fruitbat00]

Thanks tressygirl. I managed to speak to a real agent and they have looked into all the obvious and now getting shipping dept on the case and will phone me back. Feeling hopeful