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Well, I have never heard of this. Basically, it makes no sense. eBay tells me I take Paypal. eBay tells me I ship in a day. eBay tells me I take returns. I need a written policy that tells them that I am doing as they say? Policies that customers never read? Any deviation from eBay's policies are not allowed? Policies that are non-enforceable anyway?
It tells me I have a large number of policies. Sure I do, the ones they told me I have.
I get all of that Photo, but shipping charges for me will not change, most likely. I use flat rate, and with the approx 16% decline in the Cdn $ in the last two years, I am ahead on shipping after FVF. I set my flat rates three years ago and see no need to change them this year.
That will be four years running with the same rates.
I agree with what Mr. Elmwood has said (all of it).
With the possible exception of the convenience of being able to adjust shipping rates en masse, I don't see the point in giving sellers a feature to set out policies that are already mandatory.
Maybe they rolled it out so fast that nobody stopped to think about its redundancy vis-a-vis their own policies! It wouldn't be the first time eBay has put the cart before the horse. Maybe that's why they've pulled it now. Apparently there was also a lot of complaining about how poorly it functioned in general and how awkward it was to use.
As far as shipping rates go, as long as the $Cdn remains below the $US, I'll be leaving my flat rate shipping charges as they are.
Can you use bulk edit to make across-the-board changes to shipping amounts? I realize it's not ideal, but at least it isn't as slow as manually opening and changing each listing.
Perhaps eBay will wake up and realize that an automated editor for shipping charges, along the concept of the business policies, would be more helpful to sellers. For example, being able to specify that particular items get rate "A" when the listings are first set up, and being able to change rate "A" in one quick step for all such listings whenever necessary. Oh, right, that would be logical. 
Rose and I are on the exact same page? I'm now that smart? Scary heights for me, lemme tell ya.
Cumos, a buddy of mine who is way too smart, has a way of exporting listings to Excel, sorta like what you want to do. Way above my pointy little head.
