I would advise everyone to stop all sales with eBay by setting your seller is away so that no items are sold until this is resolved.

Why would I want to do that? In the last 3 months I have sold over £500 of unwanted items, mostly under simple delivery. I have no problem with simple delivery and would rather have the money in my pocket than stuff gathering dust, I'm certainly not going to cut my nose off to spite my face.