There could be a loophole that says eBay is allowed to take fees from postage but not actually say it as such. E.g. having sellers advertise as free postage with no mention of the actual postage cost, as though there isn't one. Common sense prevails but legally, who knows.

Exactly what I was about to say.

They have found the loophole to the fair practices law for them to charge a FVF for the complete sales price... That is incredibly low and greedy...

It disadvantages both the seller and buyer in this case. The buyer misses out on combined shipping and the seller ends up ling more of their money to ebays wallet.

There is no way they can sugercoat this new policy.