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@therenewalworkshopltd wrote:

Why pay for something when you can just make do and it doesn't affect you directly?

 

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If a seller cancels a sale by selecting "problem with buyer's address" as the reason it has affected eBay directly due to the lost BPF/FVF. eBay could completely do away with that cancellation reason for domestic sales if delivery addresses were checked against Royal Mail's PAF file. 

eBay could (currently) pay ~£7,500/year for unlimited website lookups via a PAF data access licence; that is absolutely nothing to eBay. In terms of the millions of lookups that would be performed that would equate to a small fraction of a penny per lookup. It doesn't take too many BPFs or FVFs saved through sales that would not otherwise have been completed to see that eBay would almost certainly financially benefit from employing PAF lookups.