I have been on eBay with this id since 2003. I started selling in Jan 2009. I never had any visible limits showing nor did I ever have issues with limits.
I called a couple of years ago to find out if I have limits and if so what they were. I have a monthly selling limits of 150 items and $6,000 CDN. The CSR (USA based!) understood what I was talking about and when I asked, they made the limits visible on my account. As mentioned in other posts they can be seen in my eBay All Selling and in Selling Manager (basic I have and I assume in Pro).
My limit is a relatively low limit but it is based on my selling history over the years. I had at most 100 items listed in a month and the value of those items was a few thousand. That was my history of listing items on eBay and my limits reflected those with some extra space in case I did more than my typical peak over the years. The limits adjust to your history over time from what I understand. If you make an moderate increase each month in how many you list and their value, the limits go up.
From what I understood everyone has selling limits. I have to assume they are based on seller history and are a protection for eBay and buyers and the seller. If there is a sudden and drastic change in how many items a seller lists and their total value, the selling limits prevent this from happening to minimize scam sellers who build up an account with small sales and low value to load it up with high value items and not ship.
This protection is similar to credit cards. If you have a history of buying low value items and a few items a month, that is your pattern. If there is a sudden increase in purchases and the value of the items, the card holder might be contacted because of the sudden change in their buying patterns.
One thing to understand about selling limits is it counts items, not listings, and it counts the value of all the items. So you can reach the item limit quickly if you have a few listings with a large quantity. Let's say the limit is 1,000 items. You can have one listing with 1,000 quantity reaching you item limit. Or 10 listing with 100 items.
Another thing to understand is that selling limits is not a straightforward counter like free listings. At the first of the month selling limits would be whatever active listings total items (not listings) and total value. Now listing will be sold and listing will end and new listings will be started over the month. So the active count of items and total value will go up and down. The total number of listings used in a month will count up all the time reach the free listing limit. But the items and value will go up or down. One little catch to this is sold items. It is a straight counter as well as the total value and it will be reset each month on the start of the month
I have probably confused some with my explanation of selling limits and how they count. I did not understand until watching them for a few months. I thought it was a straight counter but noticed it did not behave as I expected.
PS The selling limits counters does not count properly. I have reported it to Raphael in the weekly session months (a year ago?). A couple of times he reported it fixed but I showed him it was not. I do not think it ever worked properly. What else is new, lol. The issue is at the top of Raphael weekly session list of outstanding issues. Very hard to follow the selling limits counter because it is so dynamic on an active account with lots of listings and sales. I was able to follow it on my accounts because i am so small a seller.
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