Unfortunately I have a horrible feeling that the "Only get paid on delivery" rule that eBay have imposed on sellers is going to result in a sharp increase in the number of sellers being scammed by unscrupulous buyers alleging that the item was never received so as to get a total refund of the money that they paid to the seller and therefore end up getting the item for free, unless the seller can prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the buyer's allegations of non-delivery are completely false and that the item did indeed arrive at the address provided by the seller.
If eBay don't wake up and realise that these latest policies are likely to prove to be the final straw for many sellers on the site, then I wouldn't be at all surprised to see 2025 panning out as the year in which a significant number of sellers finally decided to throw in the towel and leave eBay for good. Should this scenario end up playing out then it could potentially end up leaving eBay in one hell of a mess from a financial perspective. Sellers generate income for eBay via the money generated by purchases from buyers, but if sellers start abandoning eBay like rats deserting a sinking ship then I really can't see how these recent policy changes are going to benefit eBay in the long term.
In summary I think eBay may well have finally pushed things to the point where the resulting damage to their income stream, not to mention the ever-increasing damage to their reputation resulting from their seemingly incurable habit of implementing very badly thought out and extremely unpopular changes to the stie, will eventually prove to be too great for them to recover from. You can only push your luck so far before it suddenly backfires on you and blows up in your face spectacularly.
