Absolutely no point upgrading your store as sales will not improve.
We are all restricted to a dollar average for sales in my experience.
Neither increasing your store subscription level nor your number of listings will improve matters.
What you need to do is work out your allocated average and modify your listing volume and store level to maximise your profit.
If you watch your weekly sales average closely you will see it trending to a certain median value.
I see this throttling quite clearly in my sales pattern.
You will be allowed to earn so much in averaged sales dollars and no more, no less.
It looks as though sales in individual product categories are simply shared based on overall $ value of the category, number of sellers and, probably, a whole list of criteria which only eBay themselves know.
If the category value goes up then so does your sales allowance.
If it goes down then vice versa.
A few weeks ago I sold a rare book for several hundred dollars.
This was equivalent to about 30 normal sales.
Yet after about 2 weeks my sales averages were back to the usual.
Monthly billing was absolutely normal.
In fact when I look at my past billing it is so averaged out it beggars belief.
I've become so used to this that it's now possible to better organize the day (some small advantage I guess).
When I've had $x through the store in 24hrs then I know that's it until the average goes down again.
Retail has never been this predictable except in a highly manipulated market.
(remember Visy and Amcor)?
I'll probably reduce my subscription level to basic fairly soon.
The dollars saved will go towards an independent website and multichannel selling efforts.
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