I have been a small-time eBay seller for over 23 years. I don't sell all the time, sometimes not for months or even a few years. I strategically assemble auctions and sales and promote them widely, mostly selling records. eBay gave me an offer of a monthly store subscription of 250 auction items and 1000 fixed-price items. I accepted that offer. It's straightforward. I then spent four months pulling together a 20K inventory of records, multiple photos of every item, fulltime days to assemble the text listings, and then . . . eBay limited me at 130 items and only $1.2K inventory. They don't believe a full-time store operator can handle more than 4 orders a day--and that's assuming a fallacy that all four items will sell in that day. (Statistics indicates maybe 1 will sell, for a profit of $2 per day. EBay believes they know my business better than I do, and that I can pay my rent with this $2-a-day profit.) The profits on any sales will not even cover the storage fees for this inventory. eBay had never done this in the past. Now they are telling me they know my business better than I myself do. So this is going to bankrupt my business right when I decide to make a real commitment tk it; and they've already invoiced me fees for a product I never used while I prepared, and thet they will not even honour. eBay does not care about small stores. That is now obvious. They want to be Amazon, that is transparent. eBay is a dead and dying platform. So dead they now resort to lies and deception for business. I do not say this lightly, not after 23 years of valuable service. eBay has effectively ruined my business with their bait & switch fraud. New users need to know from an old hand around here, eBay is now for all intents and purposes a total control-freak Chinese-style Capitalist scam.
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