I switched over to the Ebay direct payments system in January. It worked fine. For six months. They have now changed their terms and conditions. If you check your messages from eBay you will find, hidden away in the small print, that photo id is now required for all sellers using the eBay direct payments system. It is all to do with our security ( no laughing at the back)
My beef with them is that my sale went through in June. If I had been getting paid using Paypal I would have my money. But because I switched over to the no-fuss direct payments system, eBay sat on my money until July 1 when their new photo ID rule kicked in. And because I refuse to give them my passport or driving licence, they are refusing to pay my money into my bank account.
If you have an eBay account, check your seller payments arrangement.
Or you can google ebay photo id. It seems I am not the only one being shafted by this.