I think it depends somewhat on what categories you sell in, with regard to what they make you do with returns, but yeah, they are pushing for all of us to move to free returns. This is part of the reasons I have been migrating a lot of my listings off here and onto a site called Reverb. I sell music instrument parts and supplies, and Reverb is basically a site for ONLY music instruments and related and now they have an LP category for records, too. It's perfect for me, and honestly, my sales there have been better than they have here. Like, I get 2 or 3 times more traffic on all my listings. I can't figure out if that's because there are more musicians who shop on Reverb now than there are eBay, or if it is because there is less competition on Reverb so I by default get more views because my stuff is seen more. Regardless, I have now sold 5 items on Reverb in the last 24 hours and NOT ONE here. And, to top it off, Reverb's fees are less than half of Ebay fees. Win-win for me. I keep hoping for eBay to make a comeback to what it used to be in the early days. Yes it was a pain paying for EVERY listing, but probably only one out of every hundred listings failed to sell, at least for me. It was a LOT better than it is now, and it made it worth it to have to pay for every listing, as you really felt like you were getting your money's worth. And it was a LOT more fair to the seller in those days.
