"I have yet to see any Buyer's reactions as no clear picture of what eBay are quoting"
I'm mostly a buyer, although I'm an occasional seller as well. I've got several issues with SD as a buyer.
1. Today I received a DVD, the postage cost of which was £2.10. In future it will be £2.70. That is a totally unnecessary additional cost, and I’m not willing to pay that simply in order to line ebay’s pockets.
2. I've noticed for a while that there are far fewer private sellers on ebay. It’s not just about having less choice, although that’s part of it. It’s also about the quality of choice. In my experience, private sellers are more likely to post actual images instead of the stock images that mega-sellers use, and their descriptions are often more individual instead of standard descriptions. In the case of CDs, private sellers are more likely to post an image of the back of the CD showing the track list, whereas the mega-sellers almost never do this. So once the private sellers are gone, I won’t be buying any more CDs off ebay because I always want to see the track listing.
3. As I’ve said on another thread, although what I sell is nearly all low value, I like to think that the funds offset what I call my “little treats”. Since I won’t be selling anything after 7 April, I won’t be buying “treats” like I have done in the past, particularly in view of the additional postage cost.
So for all these reasons, I won’t be buying much, if anything, on ebay in future. There may be other implications that haven’t occurred to me, and which I would only discover if I actually bought something.
I suspect that people who only buy and don’t sell, don’t realise that anything is changing.
