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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

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@stylesilver wrote:

Thanks Dazzledayz & Twyngwyn- What you've said explains a LOT. Now I see what it is & why it's done. Sooo ... that means they spread out sales to more people if there are identical products. BUT if you can find unique products (eg vintage/ collectables/ artwork or just something no-one else is selling, for example). This throttling wouldnt happen so much to these sellers because there's no other sellers to share the sales out to. They would leave these visible in case of a sale? Do you think this would be the case?

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Partially - but in conjunction with what Chameleon has to say above:

I said this was a blunt instrument algorithm (not very intelligent) so if the category is worth $X overall and there are Y number of sellers then your share is X divided by Y

That's only a very crude description as some sellers may be given more than 1 share or a decimal fraction of 1 dependant on any marketing or contractual obligations eBay may have at the time.

If that's the case then it won't really matter what you are selling as the category value is known and dynamically subject to an imposed algorithm.

How a seller gets themselves upgraded to a higher share value is only known to eBay.

I have noticed however that some sellers have a bit of success selling across multiple categories which would make sense if this theory of category based sales sharing is correct.