Thanks, it's kind of the opposite for me, I was planning on devoting a significant chunk of my time trying to declutter and list. All my 'standard' items (e.g mainstream release DVDs) will eventually go to the charity shop, be sold as job lots, or be sold to the likes of CEX or Music Magpie (for pennies), but I have lots of rare collectable CDs, vinyl, DVDs, VHS tapes (including many collectable pre-cert tapes), blu rays, books, comics, magazines, 8-bit hardware and software (mostly ZX Spectrum stuff), 16/32-bit consoles and software, and goodness knows how much other random paraphernalia. Anyone into those areas of collecting would have an absolute field day if they came into my home, but for me, the sheer amount of 'stuff' has long been a source of anxiety, as I know that it would take me several lifetimes to read, listen to and watch it all - and that's just the items in own collection, let alone the time it would take to list and sell the ones I'm happy (to varying degrees) to sell on.
I suffer from severe procrastination in some areas of life, and put off listing my first item for about two decades (yep, you read that right) from the time I first got online around the turn of the millenium, discovered eBay, and resolved to use the site. Along with (but connected to) the procrastination was my anxiety about being scammed or making an error with my initial listings, getting negative feedback and starting my eBay selling 'journey' (everything's apparently a journey nowadays) on the wrong foot. Meanwhile I kept buying and buying, and not only from eBay.
A few years ago, I finally grabbed the bull by the horns and took the plunge (to mix metaphors in a slightly dodgy fashion - I assure you that I have no se**al attraction to bovine species!). I was doing pretty well too, largely because I priced items reasonably and took a lot of care with each listing (highlighting even the most minor imperfections, knowing how finnicky I myself am about the condition of physical media), communicating with the buyer, etc. Getting a sale (and better still, glowing feedback) was a real serotonin hit. Then life circumstances, inluding two moves in the space of six months, got in the way.
Fast forward to now, and I'm in a position to list again, but now it's not my procrastination holding me back, it's the ending of cash on collection and the introduction of the BPF and Simple Delivery that are holding me back. Though not ideal, I can live with payment holds. I could probably even handle the BPF, but the end of CoC is a problem for me, and - as others have expressed - SD will be the real killer. I have a Post Office just a few minutes' walk away, but Evri etc. would require a bus into town, not to mention the fact that I have around £200 worth of First Class and First Class Large stamps (which I got as 'payment' for doing Kantar TNS postal surveys many years ago - I later exchanged them for barcoded stamps under the Stamp Swap scheme) that I was planning to use up (for certain sales) before switching fully to tracked services (RM48 Tracked being particularly good value, relatively speaking). SD, if it does become mandatory (I'm aware of the CEO's statement, and there are no indications at this point that eBay are going to backtrack) will leave me lumbered with them. Apart from eBay, I hardly ever use stamps now, just the odd birthday or Christmas card, so all that running around doing the postal surveys (they called it that, but it wasn't a written survey as the name suggests) has turned out to be largely a waste of time. I'm in a minority, but I know from these boards that some other sellers have got stamps like mine (which keep their value with RM increases) which they want(ed) to use on eBay packages.
Anyway, sorry for the digression, but there's my eBay life story in a nutshell, and as you can see, it's not entirely unrelated to the thread topic (okay, strictly speaking the subject is whether a printer is required for SD, but I don't think the OP minds that the discussion has broadened somewhat).
And yes, "eBay is a complete..." is a concise summary of how I'm feeling right now. I'm rather shocked at how quickly I've gone from being an eBay lover (with a few things that "we need to talk about") to an apparent hater. The obvious response (oft-repeated on these boards) is "Well, use a different site then", but I don't adapt quickly to change, and have already invested a significant amount of time in learning the ropes here, so am reluctant to, and nervous about, having to start all over again with a different system (although, to be fair, even eBay's system is a very different beast to what it was just a couple of years ago).
Off-topic, but the app update has also royally, er, upset me. I have Android 9, and cannot update to 10. I've deleted the now unusable app, but am already missing the useful notifications (the app was generally rubbish, but the notifications were a positive feature). Anyway, plenty of other threads where I can vent my sleen about that...
