I got the invite as well, but as many other sellers have said, I have no intention of giving up more of the sales price to ebay, they already take a signficant amount of a cut, and when there's an issue (not related specifically to the co funded program), ebay is impossible to deal with fairly. They simply tell me they'll escalate it, and when they do I get a generic (likely AI or cut and paste) response from 'customer service'. Ebay is a business for many folks, for me its a hobby, and I'm seeing Ebay seems to be forcing sellers into adhering to what I describe as unfair practises. That doesn't mean all of the ebay policy is bad, but like many others, as a Canadian seller, I ship using letter mail for items under around $20. I reach out to the buyer and let them know that the ebay estimated time of delivery is not correct (its really agressive) and let them know I can offer parcel with tracking at a small price increase, but acknowledge its their decision. Well, I get some requests for items not received, and 99% of those requests that I get are from new accounts often admitting the address is wrong. (yes I know I should ship parcel, but in Canada thats a huge cost difference which simply means I wouldn't sell the item with a high shipping cost attached, ebay knows this as well and will never stop allowing lettermail as they would have sales collapse under $30-$40 transactions, but they certainly won't treat the sellers with the respect they deserve when it comes to risk....). I don't get my item back, its likely lost in mail, and ebay forces a refund. I've spoken with ebay customer service on this many times, and they just tell me to ship it parcel, and tell me the address they provided me for the sale was supplied by the buyer, but won't take the responsibility for providing a correct address, seems like a simple task where they go and do additional confirmation on addresses so they provide the correct address to the sellers). Maybe allow sellers to make the call for themselves, new accounts under XX of a rating have to buy using parcel. Again, its always new users making these claims. These co-funded programs considering how ebay treats me as a seller make my decision easy, they already take a big fee from me, they can fund their own programs, I'm not interested in participating. I'm not sure how much longer I'll continue selling on this platform either, its become less desirable with few protections. I'm not signing up, I'll monitor it but the details are not well promoted and I can't log into the link they sent as it brings me to a .com address.
