I welcome the change.

eBay has a terrible reputation caused by terrible, dodgy private sellers.

Just to remind everyone, Private Sellers are those doing less than 30 sales per year or £1740 in income. Therefore it is not too unreasonable that such fellows should be paying extra fees due to the risk of a deal going wrong.

If there are still sellers out there who are trying to hold on to Private Seller accounts with more than these sales, well you kind of do deserve to pay extra fees for your daftness (or corruption). Check your feedback rating for the last 12 months, if it is more than 30, then you have the wrong type of account. 

If for any reason you have been a bit tardy completing your tax self assessment, then you have only yourself to blame as the net is closing very rapidly now. Think about the tax due on a 7 year assessment on your income plus fines plus interest. 

I am not seeing any difficulty in the eBay earning capacity, and if everyone has the correct type of account then it will mean we are being charged the correct fees. They can make appropriate and informed business decisions which will make it so much easier for businesses to navigate and control. May not be lower fees but at least vast swathes of the population will now be paying their taxes and the platform will be much more predictable and less risky.