Exactly my thoughts.... I'm happy to take the risk of non-delivery by Royal Mail, by covering the cost myself... cheaper than increasing my price by including tracking costs.  Now I've been told by eBay that my seller status will be gradually reduced until I'm banned if I don;t get everything tracked. I'm already fed up with the red-tape of selling on eBay.... and the awful back-office rigmarole which among other things means I can't download my orders account to a spreadsheet. It's even reached the point where an email 'notification of sale' does not say how many of an item the customer is paying for (and that's apart from the pidgin English  in the script) Sadly I;ve been a happy seller for nearly 20 years