I spoke about this in another thread - two employees have actually spilled the dirt, and when the CEO himself was questioned he also inadvertantly admitted it.
I started with 50 items per month. Increased to 200 items per month - NO DIFFERENCE in sales. The monthly average (number of items, therefore $$ as well), is the same as when i only listed 50 items.
Its known Ebay has contracts with larger sellers / well known companies - all companies do this, its normal business. However, the reasoning behind these invisible caps (throttling), is so they can forfil these contracts with these sellers - they promise them a minimum amount of sales per month. Big brands and well known companies attract customers - its in their best interest to get big companies on board, for that and many other reasons.
They do this by throttling smaller sellers. That is, they limit the amount of traffic going to their listings. Thats why youll get a few days and sell a whole bunch, then a week of nothing.
Is it illegal? If it went to court, Ebay would be in a whole bunch of trouble, possible criminally, but they would also probably have to pay out a heck of a lot of sellers. There is another company who did similar whose executives are now in jail (cant for the life of me remember the name lol google it).
My previous posts had replies like "why would they do that - makes no sense" and "but surely any sale is a good sale - they all make money for Ebay" - smaller sellers have no clue about business or how big businesses become big businesses and actually make money. They arent going to do anything because they dont know, and think they cant, or its too much effort.
Nothing is going to happen for a looonngggggg time. At least some talk about it is starting (really started mid last year).
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