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@iamanark wrote:

Variables or red herrings

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The first “variable” is the number of people/members who deserted ePay when PayPay was made mandatory

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There are reasons why people choose to use eBay over any of the other methods for selling items that may be available to them.

There are reasons why people choose to buy on ebay over any of the other shopping venues available to them.

In general, most buyers and sellers are aware of the involvement of eBay, and to a certain extent, PayPal in the transactions they conduct, and what it means to them personally. Therefore these choices, and the impressions that influence them, are very real (but as I said, unquantifiable), variables, not red herrings, which is a device specifically employed to distract from reality/truth. A real red herring is the way PayPal suggest a buyer will get their money back if they don't receive an item. Someone under that impression may bid more confidently and - as a consequence - higher, but their understanding and their behaviour because of it isn't the red herring.

Even if a person's understaning of eBay / PayPal is limited or misguided, what they do understand, or think, will influence their choices.