Just got a message about listing improvements.
Then got the "bad" news:
Which was 2 or 5% likelyhood of sale but it tells you nothing else and going to Seller Hub shows nothing.
Nice to have it confirmed that it's poitnless relisting anything.
Item score for those items is a average price of $12.31,(which is $6.32 higher then what mine where listed at).
So another tool that's totally useless,
I suspect this is the kind of thing that's a pre-cursor to the inactive listings policy.
I had a chance to have a good read through all the info related to that this morning, and holy wow.... I spent the whole time like this. Except my hair is thin and flat rather than curly and flouncy.
Seriously, though - they're talking about deciding which listings are likely to have a sale in 12 months, imposing listing limits on sellers that will effectively reduce their inventory available here, and will charge "maintenence fees" if you keep an inactive listing on site.
In other words, they will use some bot to determine how many listings you can have, a bot to determine (based on goodness knows what) whether your listing might not sell, and have ultimately given themselves a financial incentive to make extra $'s for listings they bury or hide in search results.
@davewil1964 wrote:As I said elsewhere, I can see a lot of 'sell similars' coming on.
Perhaps not if eBay decide to limit your listings (as in, the quantity you're allowed to have), or charge you extra fees if the relisted item is determined to be similar to an older unsold item and therefore quarantined as "inactive".
I'm referring to this:
To maintain the health of the marketplace, weโve introduced a new inactive listings policy. You may be required to limit the amount of your listings, remove inactive listings that havenโt had, or are unlikely to have, any sales in 12 months, or be required to pay maintenance fees for listings which arenโt removed.
And this charming reply in the FAQs
I have very varied types of items in stock and that is why I have so many listings with low amount of sales. How can I have my inventory on site if I cannot have so many inactive listings?
We have carefully reviewed your account to allow you to have a breadth of inventory which resulted in your listing limit. Optimise your listings to ensure that they are priced competitively.
What does that even mean? 
@digital*ghost wrote:I have very varied types of items in stock and that is why I have so many listings with low amount of sales. How can I have my inventory on site if I cannot have so many inactive listings?
We have carefully reviewed your account to allow you to have a breadth of inventory which resulted in your listing limit. Optimise your listings to ensure that they are priced competitively.
What does that even mean?
IMHO simply put,lower your prices till it sells,(that way eBay gets "paid").
They don't care if you make a profit as long as they make some money,
My sales have hit rock bottom with my last sales being on the 17th and the 1st,(so it might be time to go into
hibernation for a while),
I think that's part of it, but I'm still struggling to glean something coherent from the first sentence. My best guess is that it's missing some context / info, a few words, and/or punctuation, and what they're trying to say is that they'll review accounts to pick out "inactive" listings. If you have something like 1000 listings and half are deemed to be inactive, they might limit you to 600 listings (give or take), which should then allow you enough listings to have a half-decent variety of active inventory... or something. 
There's a different question in the FAQs that asks how many listings a seller can have on the site, and they reference these listing limits there, too, mentioning that each selling account has different limits (this has been in place for a while, of course, but now they're talking about imposing them based on inactive listings). I hope I'm over-thinking (or misinterpreting) it, because that would be quite the challenge for a business if they have limits imposed based on the number of current "active" listings. Fair enough, I suppose, if eBay don't want the old listings back, but how would a business have a chance of expanding with new inventory?
