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@lyndal1838 wrote:

That happened to me last night with the Click15 promo Digi.

 

I bought 5 DVD sets, all Post Free, put them into my cart then paid.  The receipt came back as 2 payments.  The 4 lower value items were grouped together as Free Post but the $50 item was separate and said Signature Required Post but there was no extra charge.

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It more than likely does have to do with different postage options selected in the listings, I didn't double-check my recent purchase, but I know when it's happened in the past that different items had different postage services selected, but in one case I won two auctions from an OS seller on different days, paid for them together and the payment was split, with a different exchange rate applied to each one. 

Still wholly unnecessary, though. Separate payments will require separate packages for seller protection (if the seller wants it), but one payment doesn't require one package, so PayPal are (effectively) taking an option away from the seller, and they (PP) are the only one who benefits from the split payments.