I have been on ebay since 2001, and have steadily built up my activity since, and gradually took the plunge to use ebay as a spare time business in April 2002. Each year continued to grow this business.

As a result of problems with Royal Mail strike action, items going missing in the mail, and the forever expanding hoops that ebay expect me to keep jumping through in the name of "progress", I have decided to end all items for now. This decision is helped by the fact that Royal Mail decided to close down my local post office, forcing me to use its own SmartStamp postage, which pleases itself when it wants to work. Not to mention that this printed postage in itself does not count as postage, and cannot be used as evidence of postage unless a certificate of posting has been stamped at a post office. Complete madness.