Unfortunatly ebay have us over a barrel to some extent. My personal opinion is they don't want small qty private sellers. Probably becuse a number of them cause too many claims. You have to use "managed payments" in the UK now. Ieven if there is no holding period you still have to wait a few days for the payment to come through. I now put? 3 or 4 day shipping time on my listings so I at least have the postage cost in my account.
The worst thing I have had is an item sold to europe and not only did ebay charge me an additional international sales fee, they charged the seller 20% VAT and then charged me 10% comission on the VAT! As far as I can tell as a private individual selling a used item VAT should not have been charged in the first place.
Unfortunatly none of the alternative marketplaces have the exposure that ebay has.
Robert G8RPI.
