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because RainyDee its dishonest of the sellers to put one p&p in the headline and then later say they will actually charge more. I presume ebay limited it because of the way some sellers were attempting to rip people off with postage costs. We all know how much it genuinely costs to send stuff, some sellers must be using a goldstar hand delivery service with what they try and charge. As for selling on ebay I did actually try it but found it wasnt worth the aggravation. Listing fee, kerching to ebay, final valuation fee, kerching, pay with paypal, oh ebay own that, kerching. try to get your money from paypal to bank account, oh kerching, at every stage ebay take a chunk and by the end there is sweet fa left. Then have to go and queue in the post office to send the damned stuff, just too much bother for little reward

RainyDee wrote:Why would you complain to ebay about sellers telling you the actual cost of P+P in the body of their listings because ebay won't allow sellers to enter the correct cost of the shipping? what else can you do? it's getting to the point now where selling on ebay isn't worth the hassle, listing fees, final value fees, PayPal fees, unable to leave neutral or negative feedback for poor buyers, it's just not what it used to be.

Hi Rainy Dee, I know Im boring but I believe the 'rules' should be the same for everyone and I play by the rules

As Merv said they brought in the maximum P&P to stop people hiking up the postage, sadly like most eBay rules they got it wrong and instead of catching the wrong doers they penalise everyone

It might cost £5.50 or more to correctly package and send an item, as a seller you need to cover the cost of this, as you cant charge more than £4.00 you have to add it to the start price, who benefits from the increased start price and FVF eBay of course

I totally agree its not what it used to be but eBay aren't really interested interested in the likes of you and me any more, of course they're quite happy to take our money but they're now more interested in the businesses such as Argos

The feedback system is totally corrupt, as a seller I can not leave honest feedback about dishonest buyers, my options are either No Feedback or Positive so it just encourages people not to pay

Ive had this argument numerous times with eBay and some of the 'reasons' they come up with are laughable, but to be honest they're just not interested, just as the High Street has lost its unique shops to be replaced by the big corporations the same is happening with eBay

But thats what happens when there is no competition

I now only sell using Free Listing weekends or my 100 99p listings