Yes i agree with your first comment and have to hand it to the ebay team to come up with yet another way to with hold funds from every day sellers with clean records, This heavy handed tactic now sees us all tarred with the same brush. If you list your items with say a quick get it out the door 1-2 day handling and you are sick or delayed in any way with work you are now treated as an offender and " oh we will keep your money " for the hell of it!!!

i have now changed my handling time to 4 days as a result to allow myself room to enable being paid straight away.

i think many others will do the same and it will deprive them of the money they expect. What are they doing with it ??? floating it on the short term money markets....hmmmm