"Five years ago all the posts here were complaining just as angrily about managed payments. Four years ago it was seller fees, two years ago it was fee discount weekends and vouchers, now this. I wonder what it will be next year?"
I do think there is a difference this time. While plenty of complaints about MP were from private sellers, many were more concerned about the loss of paypal and the difficulty of setting up new bank accounts in the middle of Covid lock-downs.
Complaints about seller fees, discount weekends and vouchers came mostly from business sellers and were more about the disparity between how much they paid and how little private sellers (especially "private" sellers) paid in comparison.
IMO private sellers haven't complained greatly about anything since MP five years ago, they have had little to complain about and what they did have was shared with business sellers, who also did their share of complaining.
Since "Free" to Sell was introduced and all the restrictions since then (payment holds, BPF, SD giving ebay NINOs) have all been aimed squarely at private sellers with businesses exempt.
Private sellers, with good reason IMO, resent being labelled as un-reliable sellers that buyers need to be protected from and used as an excuse to have their cash held. Especially as it's obvious that the reality is it's all just to recoup ebay's lost income.
The mess that ebay has made of introducing SD and again that ebay has done this to make money for itself while ignoring any detrimental effects on private sellers is greatly resented.
Whether this has been done in a badly thought-out attempt to tackle the "private" seller problem, or is a deliberate attempt by ebay to rid itself of private sellers the effect has been to make ebay highly unpopular with them and more than ever, useless to them as an effective selling site.
IMO not a good idea when they have viable alternatives which are easier and more pleasant to use. Some may go and return, but less than ebay expects IMO.
