Serious sauce.
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Looking at preās to front my CJ premier 350. Default would be a CJ Act 2 on eBay at the moment, but this SST Thoebe looks interesting, anyone experienced?. Holding out for a unicorn early SJS, but none willing to part it seems!
Not been many about recently, but there is a recent one atm due to owner emigrating.
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EMM Labs are superb. Must be on drugs with that asking price though.
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Thanks btw, now Iāve been on their website and want a D2Ai.
sons crying, etc. etc.
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Not sure if this covers Hi-Fi
Edit. I think it does!
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Fantastic news if true - I have a load of listings scheduled and have been waiting for a low fees offer.
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Just checked on one of my scheduled listings and it says it is free.
The link, which was updated today, says private sellers get 300 free listings a month and only pay for optional extras (which I never use).
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Had an email from them this morning:
Seems only vehicles are excluded.
Seems like someone at HQ noticed the smell of death in the airā¦
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They also give you the advantage of using your sale gains as credit on future purchases.
Thus containing your money into an internal economic loop.
Makes me wonder if theyāre set to drop Paypal or even try to make the whole thing a closed shopā¦?
Iām thinking along the same lines.
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They effectively moved from a Paypal monopoly a few years ago when they sold it.
You can pay by credit or debit card, (except AmEx) Apple or Google Pay, and Paypal is still accepted
Thank-you, for what feels like the millionth time, for telling me blindingly-obvious things I already know.
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Why would they then?
(As you know everything)
Why wouldnāt they? For exacty the reasons already mentioned - they may be attempting to create an internal monopoly, which they very nearly had when Paypal was part of the same group, and which they were forced to relinquish.
Also, itās 2024, stuff making sense isnāt always a thing any more - they may, for example simply want rid of the disproportionately resource-hungry and troublesome private sales altogether, but they know just suddenly pulling down the hatches would chase too many potential buyers away to Ali Excess and the likeā¦
Trying to guess WTF ebay are up nowadays to is not a productive use of anyoneās timeā¦ 
And I donāt know everything, just all the things you post. I already know those 
An internal monopoly on what?
Introducing eBay Balance
From 16 October 2024, weāre introducing eBay balance, a new way to use your funds after you sell. Youāll be able to use your funds to shop directly on eBay or pay for things such as delivery labels, promote your listings, or to cover any selling needs.
Alternatively, you can withdraw available funds from your balance to your bank account - payment holds may apply. As your funds will be stored in your eBay balance, daily, weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly payout schedules will no longer be offered
So, in this scheme, payments wonāt be paid directly to you, they will be held by ebay until you actively move them. Now, my opinion is this sounds like the start of āBank-of-ebayā, and - in time - perhaps not something youāre going to have much choice about. Thereās little to stop them incrementally making āebay Balanceā the only practical/convenient way of handling funds on ebay - at least until various monopolies commissions intervene.
Why else would they do this? They make money, and in time, gain complete control. The corporate wet dream right there.
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I suppose that the interest they make on holding peopleās funds would go some way in offsetting the fees they are losing from private sellers.
But being paid out for your sale will always be an option I would have thought
Although the main reason these have gone is because of competition.
Talking to Millennials and Gen Z at work they sell on line but use Vinted and Depop and ebay were losing loads of business.
I can see the ebay balance account being popular for the same reasons that certain people still use paypal. It is the only account they have that their wives canāt access 
Preach it 