I noticed the change to have ebay take a bite of your shipping money too last week when I sold a broken laptop. My opinion is the sellers did this to themselves by selling something for $1 and charging $25 on shipping trying to "work the system". I'm shocked it too this long for ebay to "correct" that.
My solution was simple, I inflated my shipping charges to cover the additional ebay fees. No more "actual shipping" from me. Everything gets priced USPS flat rate + a couple extra bucks.
As far as email addresses on ebay go, it's pretty easy to work around it with a few asterisks or whatever. Email me at ma**xwelhse, etc..
I buy on CL a lot, but rarely sell unless its something where I can meet someone somewhere. The fewer random strangers that just show up at my house, the better. A friend of mine just won't learn his lesson and keeps selling stuff to morons that go out and break it in 2 days and then he takes it back because he's afraid they're going to burn his house down or something. He's had that problem 3 different times now over the past 2-3 years.
I've been on ebay for 15 years and have had 3 problems, TOTAL, that couldn't get fixed.
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