They may not care to start with but I wonder sometimes if ebay thinks further forward than the next 13 weeks?
A good many private sellers are selling next to nothing already, mainly because they are less likely to Promote and get little or no visibility.
Something sells, they wait patiently 14 days for their payment. It's sent to their Wallet on day 15. (Does the "Withdraw Funds" button work perfectly now?)
Hopefully it does and ebay sends the balance to the seller's bank.
Another couple of days for it to arrive?
That makes at least 17 days from sale to getting their money to use themselves.
Who knows they might even have sold another item by then and start the process all over again.
Yet ebay, when they're not telling sellers to Promote, Promote, Promote, they're telling them how important it is to send stuff to buyers Quick, Quick and even Quicker.
Don't ebay believe their own propaganda? "Buyers who sell are likely to buy twice as much as buyers who don't".
Does ebay REALLY think private sellers / buyers will put up with being harried to Promote, drop everything to dispatch every purchase according to ebay's schedule while their payouts get slower and even s-l-o-w-e-r (and smaller if they they take the bait and start paying ebay for some visibility).
It won't take long before a lot of them realise that it's a mugs game and a lot of work for very little return. It won't take much longer for them to work out that ebay makes money on the payment hold, on the delivery options, on the Promotion fees and is, in all probability, making more out of a "Free to Sell" transaction than they did when the private seller actually paid them fees of 13.2%.
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