If you do free postage you should put extra on the item price to cover it or the fees. I no longer bother selling cheaper stuff as it’s not worth with all the fees. Here in Australia EBay is encouraging buyers to pay any other way other than by PayPal so they can then charge the seller the fee that PayPal would have charged the seller. If a buyer pays via another method other than PayPal the seller pays 12.18% in final value fees, so if you are paying more than what most sellers in your country are charged then you might be being penalised for not good selling practices. Contact EBay and find out the reason why. And yes it is becoming discouraging to sell on EBay because of the fees and I have found now I seem to have to pay to promote my items otherwise they are buried even though I have a perfect selling record with no negatives or neutrals in 17 years of selling on EBay. Even though they don’t charge listing fees I feel like I am paying them through having to pay to promote my listings. Very sneaky of EBay, and very off putting. I now use Marketplace to sell stuff which costs nothing to do
