woodbed,   Hi,   I have just read somewhere that ebay owns Paypal,  whereas I thought Paypal was independent.

If that's correct,   I thought Paypal collected purchase money from buyer, including what we invoice to buyer as Postage,  and wondered how ebay coudl charge a commission for postage when they don't provide the service,  as you say Australia Post does.

I don't use ebay's in-house postal service,  I go physically to the post office shop and ask exact postage, get the payment, take the thing to post shop, pay them, and post it.   ebay I thought had no involvement in the process of postage.

If they own Paypal,  then through veiled invol vement, they may be entitled to charge the 9.9% postage fee as Paypal, an ebay company, collects payment.

I don't know, maybe the ACCC can help advise everybody on this.