I've on!y just started to sell again as a private seller, so have experience of the very old style of selling with fees everywhere, the newer free listing and the even newer (from 4th February) policy rolled out to sellers. My first thought it is no longer free - ebay will ho!d your buyers money in THEIR bank account, probably amounting to millions, while we are at the mercy of Couriers and postal services before we receive payments.
I like to have choice, I like to be able to offer people something they're not paying over the odds for, so to have eBay wade in with their Postal offerings giving me their own 'tracking number' I don't need and never asked for!! (I like to deal with Royal Mail direct, pay them direct and arrange for collection at my home using their printed label system). I like to choose the best option for the buyer - what if we want to post to ensure the buyer will be at home on a given day? We need to work with buyers not become another Amazon!
I feel we are being held accountable for the non-delivery of items that haven't turned up in the past. Those of us who have always provided good service are being penalised for those who haven't. I think the policy for payments being made for £10 and under within 24 hours, IF feedback is left, is again a plot to hold money in ebay's bank account earning lots and lots of interest in OUR money, after all who has time to leave feedback after every purchase? Especially for those smallest purchases? I tend to do mine in batches when I have time.
Lastly, I've not felt the need to offer any feedback before now, using this forum, for at least 3 years - last time was due to a tech hitch over 'Offers' - but those of you who are left here (given that many of you say you are leaving ebay due to this new policy) please make it known if this new payment system isn't working for you.
