Private sellers vs business.... well, if that's where eBay wants to take the platform, that's up to them. Hopefully another platform will step up to take advantage of the resulting opportunity. Personally, as a buyer I hardly ever use auctions unless it's the only avenue for what I want. It's too much hassle to have to hover over an auction, get the bid in during the dying seconds and then maybe fail. Yet back in the day, that was half the fun, wasn't it? And as a seller of both shed junk and products, the products are always BIN and even with shed junk, it's quite a while since I used auction as the method. Too much risk that it'll go for peanuts. I learned a lesson years ago, when I put something up with no starting price, expecting it to fetch £30 or £40 and it sold for 1p. The scabby git didn't even offer to up it to a fiver when he collected.
But back on topic: new postage rates. To tell the truth Evri works for me at both ends of the chain. I nip round the corner, print the label and off it goes; and we have a really good delivery woman who always rings the bell and my packages are always fine. (It'll probably go pear-shaped now). So these new rates won't affect me.
What bothers me more is that I still have no idea at all what postage will cost. I've sent three identical packages over the last few days and SD postage has cost £1:48, £1:69 and £1:00 respectively. You'd think this would be great for me but it's not, because I'm basing my prices on the £2.70 SD says it's going to cost, and I would much rather pass the saving on to my customers. I guess over time I'll probably be able to see the average and deal with it, but I shouldn't need to do this.
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