Strange that some people seem to be wilfully missing the point, and all are either one ones who are designated as ebay-centric, (seriously, I don't know what someone gets out of defending a company consistently, but as I've said previously, it happens on every company owned forum I've ever used) or are business sellers who aren't affected by the new measures.
To be clear, we now have a situation where ebay hold off paying a seller for an item until days after an item is delivered. That means unless you get the item out quickly you will always be waiting a week+ for payment. That means sellers will be less likely to spend adequate time packing items, meaning buyers receive items badly packed and more prone to damage. As a buyer I've experienced that. Moreover, if an ebayer buys an item and then cancels it before it is sent out, ebay will take the payment directly from a seller's bank account if funds aren't available on their balance. Imagine them taking a few hundred pounds out for an item, meanwhile the payment made by the cancelling buyer can take days to even be paid to the seller's ebay balance, let alone their bank account.
Then you have all the issues around postal services/couriers not scanning an item as delivered, meaning that, through no fault of their own, a seller will not be paid for an item that they sent in good faith, paid for the postage without access to funds from the buyer, and if the buyer is duplicitous, they could lose both payment and item, having to wait who knows how long for money from a claim with the relevant company.
There are so many issues from these most recent changes, implemented by ebay on Private Sellers that people are quite naturally incensed by them, listed on this thread and others that we are now up to nearly 900 posts, which is extraordinary. The only ones on their high-horses are those defending ebay. These changes were ill-thought out, have a negative effect on sales for both private and business sellers and frankly only hinder, not help, working on ebay. But please, do come up with ever more patronising methods of explaining how it's all the people being affected by the changes fault.
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