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Yeah, sorry. But I have absolutely no faith that ebay have any plans of any kind. I still can't beleave that the sold one of the worlds biggest payment processing systems off (paypal) and are now trying to build their own payment system instead.
That's not going to go well. Even if the new system works smoothly (which is incredibly unlikely) they are going to have to ram it down everyone's throats to get us to use it instead of paypal, which will just alienate more people.
I think you underestimate how used to using credit cards online that people actually are - outside of eBay, there's always a good chance that an ecommerce site doesn't even accept PayPal, and although Australians are still quite fond of it, the majority of my international customers prefer using CC, and only about 50% of Aussies stick to PayPal for most of their purchases (I provide both options via two different sites - one is another ecommerce site like this, one is my own site, so I have a pretty decent sample pool of who uses what). PayPal will continue to be offered only for about a year or two once the system changes, so the new system will definitely be rammed down people's throats, as it were.
The other possibility is that once the new payment system comes in, combined postage post-sale will be completely removed from the table - again, that is how it works on almost all ecommerce sites; postage systems are different so I have had to come up with different ways to charge combined postage rates automatically on each one, but (and I know this always makes me very unpopular with a lot of people 
) I think it would be worthwhile considering what to do if that becomes an eventuality on eBay.
