@chameleon54 wrote:...figures dont lie.
But how those figures are interpreted is a whole 'nother thing, and although it's a perfectly logical and rational explanation, it doesn't mean it's the only one.
I know you weren't replying to my post, but just to clarify, mine wasn't about disbelief (as such), it was about thinking outside the box. Or, if one is not inclined to think outside the box, at least poke some air holes in it. 
I've been there - the same sales figures month after month, with maybe a $50 deviation most months, I also saw the original (but since deleted) post from an eBay employee listing the kinds of limits on seller accounts, some of which were already known, others....not so much, and those were never explained.
What I am trying to say is that unless eBay also prevent links from working on sites they have no way to access or control, and literally block people from purchasing, there is no way they can genuinely limit someone's sales, because they can't stop you from advertising elsewhere, and they can't control the reach of that advertising, meaning whatever limits that there may be, they aren't a great wall, they're a softly drawn line.
