I am selling some stamps at a price of £4.99. Usually I would use a second class stamp that I already have (so would in actual fact cost me nothing) and an envelope with a piece of cardboard in it to stiffen it. This would cost my buyer nothing. Now I am being forced to use a large envelope costing £2.70 which is over 50% of the purchase price - and the buyer has to pay VAT on the postage (on an item costing £4.99 i cannot absorb the postage). On top of that they have to pay a "Buyer Protection fee". Now in the real world there is no VAT on the postage, the postage is at an appropriate level and as long as you get proof of posting the contents are insured by RM for up to £20. I am a private seller. I read on here that if you don't like SD then I should become a business but that costs like £9.99 a month and you still get charged a percentage of your sales, how is that a good idea (and profitable) for someone who sell 5 - 10 items a month. Today I read that "Buyer protection fees" are dropping from 75p+4% of the purchase price to 10p +7% of the purchase price which is a saving of 50p for my buyer BUT even that is too much considering it is already insured and does not have VAT added. So my item has gone from £4.99 to an enormous £8.68. The other thing I was wondering is how can you combine postage if you buy from the same buyer over a few days. . I have just purchased 4 items from the same buyer over 5 days, according to ebay I have to pay £10.80 postage as I did not pay for them all in one transaction (all were under £10 but totalled £17). Ever since they went with no more selling fees they have gone absolutely stark raving mad, I was quite happy to pay a fee for selling as I was able to calculate it into my price and postage was my choice, I have lost a few items through Evri (Hermes) so used RM for small items and Yodel for larger items (and they were cheaper than Evri, especially to NI). Now it is all a complete mess, is very depressing and I don't feel like my customers are getting a good deal. The biggest down side for me is that a business selling the same items as me can undercut me massively so my items will not sell. Ebay have done all this to compete with Vinted but 95% of the stuff eBay sells CANNOT be sold by VINTED, it's like B&Q selling Bread and Milk. They could but no-one would go there to buy it because it is on sale in the correct place i.e a Supermarket. Nor would you buy a 2 x 4 piece of wood from Sainburys. Please please please can we go back to the old days where I could list what I like for whatever price I was happy with and use what ever shipping solution was best for me and my customers. I even looked forward to the offers eBay made, such as 3% selling fees occasionally, or one week reduced packlink postage and if I sold something more expensive I could just buy extra insurance from Yodel or (cough) Evri. I have just tried to list a set of stamps and it has taken me more that 2 hours just to sort through Simple Delivery and it still charged £2.70 postage so I cancelled everything and have placed them on Facebook marketplace. They will probably take longer to sell but at least I am not ripping anyone off and I am not getting ripped off myself. The CEO need to change some of his senior staff as far as I can see as they are doing eBay no favours at all. Next Rant due soon