eBay

For balance: Yet on the other hand, I've just had an order from a customer in the USA worth about £17 gross to me, but where the eBay postage would cost me almost £18. Fortunately I can sidestep and send it myself for £4.10. Otherwise I really would ...

Indeed. Personally, I think it’s swings and roundabouts. My stuff is mostly under the £20 threshold and it’s not hard to reasonably list under a category that allows me to set the postage options. In other cases, the eBay postage has sometimes been c...

But where else? On that other big ‘E’ platform, I sold an item for £10 and cleared just £1.

Well said. 

Technically true but in practice I think eBay hedges its bets. For instance, even with private accounts you can promote items; come higher in the listings if you include a returns policy; ditto if you have a faster turnaround timeframe; and so on. At...