We have started selling on 2 new id's over the last 6 months. With both we've received the message you refer to.

On the first, we haven't had to ring Ebay once as the limit has been increased regularly.

The second started off more slowly with sales, & we rang once to increase the limit. Since then we've had 2 more automatic increases.

So the answer to your question is - Yes, they're still around.