So I just had an interesting conversation with CS. Basically when they 'release funds' for aj order, they than use it to pay for the postage of other orders whose funds haven't been released yet. So... my funds 'released' on 14th Feb were then used to purchase postage labels for future orders, because the funds from those orders were still unreleased due to their 'undelivered' status. So basically, your released funds are being used to pay seller costs on future orders because Ebay refuse to release funds on untracked stuff for 2 weeks.
It makes a convoluted kind of sense- but ultimately they are hoarding monies and paying out weeks later than they should-- and you have no option (soon) because they will force to buy postage labels through them. So your eBay balance, as such, isn't a balance at all. It's like an expenses account and every few weeks, they will pay you any credit you have on that account.
It's a weird way of doing things but makes total sense if they want to use seller monies as liquid capital.
Anyway, my stance stands. After my current batch of listings is done, I will move over to Vinted.
