If your recent success is down to the direction eBay has been taking more recently, then click click click your finger to the bone whilst you can... because there's a decent chance the end is nigh, or near enough, and tbh it wouldn't surprise me too much if that is the case.
It's one thing to see lots of Aussie sellers abandoning ship, but when the buyers are jumping overboard right along with them... it's not a very good sign.
It really shouldn't come as any great surprise though, and especially not to the 'geniuses' running ebay. It was they that have for so long sought to entice buyers to also become sellers by promoting how easy it was to start selling along with offering incentives to start. Yet, they seem to have completely overlooked this fact when formulating their recent changes that have upset/scared/disadvantaged so many Aussie sellers (for very good reason). They don't appear to have considered that most of their private/casual sellers are almost all buyers, and probably something like a quarter to one half of their buyers are also casual/private sellers. So any change that adversely affects one of those two groups is going to upset a very large proportion of people from both groups.
eBay's recent actions very much reminds me of the many fubar policies that we regularly see from politicians that find themselves in government at a time when they're completely out of touch with reality & with the voters they are supposed to be representing. They fail to comprehend that when they take a course of action that is going to adversely affect one particular group (pensioners for example) they will suffer a much much wider backlash from the electorate/community. Even when it blows up in their faces they so often still don't get why it has happened. They can't grasp why it is that for every one pensioner they are trying to disadvantage they are being shouted at by 10 other non-pensioners. Why should those non-pensioners even care? Ermmm ... because that pensioner has; children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces/\ & nephews, friends, & neighbours, etc, most of whom care what happens to that pensioner. Not to mention that some of those also appreciate that eventually it could well be them in that pensioners shoes having to suffer the whims & fancies of the next johnny come lately silver spoon fed space cadet to come into power & who has their head so far up their own **bleep** they could very nearly french kiss themselves.
It's apparent that eBay have assembled themselves a team of highly 'qualified' personel to run the show. The problems start stacking up though when their 'qualifications' are on paper in the form of university degrees obtained solely in a classroom. They often have no real world experience, they have no 'street smarts', they have no inkling of what it is to actually be a retailer/seller, either on ebay or anywhere else. Their perspective is completely warped, their strategies & processes are inflexible as they're derived from book based methodology. Thus they are unable to account/accomodate for the unexpected & spontaneous that is part & parcel of the real world trading/retailing environment, where they/we are dealing with individuals who have no idea they're supposed to be behaving like a statistic in some overeducated overpaid **bleep**s text book.
Hmmm... me cynical much? lol
