Warning: Incoming wall of text, tl;dr rule may apply.
Not wasting my time with them, unless of course the impossible occurs and eBay/Adyen suddenly allows transferring to PayPal as an option to linking a bank (and if that ever does happen, chances are it will be years after my account has been suspended/NARU'd). Besides, I can't be bothered wasting hundreds on a mobile phone I'd use exactly once in order to set up online banking, it would take me until next year to get the money back (shock horror, I do not have a mobile in the 2020s yet I'm not a boomer or even Gen X).
The last listings were within hours of finishing, I had already removed the auto-relists on them as I knew they wouldn't sell, I couldn't even give them away on here, the minimum of $9 for parcel post is enough to turn anyone off. Another stupid thing with eBay and/or Seller Hub is that you can't end auctions with the bulk "end item" option, it only works for GTC, so I had a few dozen auctions that I had to cancel one by one, with every single item cancelled causing eBay to automatically reload the page each time.
I'd already lost a small amount of money to the MP hold so I quickly pulled the rest and just let those two go - hopefully eBay takes their fees out of it as it was something like $28 anyway (for once I had actually made a killing on footy cards in April and May, despite the exact same listings being there all year round and only making a single sale every 2-3 days - in some cases I was even selling them for the price of postage and losing in fees just to keep the account going). Ironically, I was also "upgraded" to a Top Rated Seller two days ago after being on Above Standard for months on end due to lack of sales.
I'll probably stick around just to buy things, I also amassed a few dozen lousy vouchers from the sales - (yet another hopeless thing by eBay, you can't use multiple vouchers when buying something so I'm stuck with dozens of useless 22c discounts which will expire next month. Say if I wanted to buy a $20 game, I can put exactly one 22c YUEARNxxxxxxxxxx voucher on it and "pay only $19.78" instead, big deal!!! Why can't I put something like 40 of them on the same item and have $8.80 off instead?
Yes, yet another pseudo-scam by eBay, they give you a "deal" where you get 10% off your next sale, but instead of just taking 10% of your sale out of the fees, you're given a useless voucher with a 30-day expiry date, which is even more useless on a seller account if you rarely ever use it to buy anything. Even if you buy multiple items from the same buyer using the cart/checkout which combines them into one sale, you can't add more than one voucher for the entire lot unless you buy and pay separately for each and every item, and forget it if the seller has postage costs and can't combine them as you'll be paying through the nose for postage (without the seller having to resort to refunding the idiot who just paid separate postage on several items, which may or may not include the additional fees refunded back to the seller) because they've been paid for individually.
Not only that, the 10% off promotion doesn't include postage fees, so for example a $10 item with $9 postage just gives you $1 off rather than $1.90, meanwhile an identical item at $19 with "free" postage gets the full $1.90 off. Double standards by eBay yet again, they charge you fees on postage to make it fair for everyone, yet the promotion doesn't even apply to the postage fees!
