For anyone wondering how this was going a full week later....

If ebay was still my sole source of income, I would have reached the "I've made a huge mistake 😱 " part of the process and reverted back to my original postage costs. 😂

By which I mean sales are extraordinarily low, and the strangest thing is, it seems to have put a halt to almost all multiple-item orders. 😨 Over the weekend, usually my busiest time, I had less than 10 orders and they were nearly all for one $5~ish item (two people bought 2 items, one over 2 orders the other in a single order). Normally by the end of a weekend I have a lot more orders, ranging from 1 - 20+ items. 

I can only theorise as to why that is - do people think it's over $6 post per item? Are people only buying because they need that particular item ASAP and they'll look elsewhere in the future? I will need to play with some things to see if I can communicate a bit better that it's a flat rate and see if that helps. 

I'm committed to this for the foreseeable future, so I won't be giving in to any knee-jerk panic etc, but I have downgraded to a basic store for now and I will say thank goodness for my other platforms, which are doing quite nicely  😅