Wow, I didn't realise ebay was imposing it on some seller items. I wouldn't be happy either.

Now let me get this straight. A buyer pays a yearly premium in order to save on postage costs. That's what this ebay plus is?

The only way that would work is if an item actually had postage costs. People (or at least this applies to me) want to see exactly what they are saving when they pay for any scheme like this.

Let's face it, if you paid over your $29 or whatever to get free postage for a year, you wouldn't be that impressed to buy an item that was already listed as free postage anyway.

Nor would you be that happy to pay the premium & then find it applied to hardly any items on ebay. You'd want it applying to a wide range of goods.

The bit about free returns might be a motivator if you bought a lot of shoes or clothes on ebay-but again, only if the ebay plus tag applied to quite a lot of items.

Up to now, ebay seems to have pushed sellers along the path of offering free postage but if ebay plus took off, wouldn't you get people more inclined to look for things with postage separate/ eg if 2 identical items were on sale, one $10 with free post, one at $6 plus $4 postage & ebay plus, you'd go for the $6 one.

Call me cynical but if it takes off (& I'm not at all sure it will), I can't see ebay paying for free return postage willy nilly, not for long & not if some buyers over used the option.