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Everyone has ups and downs. Some mention the lights on lights off thing. I guess this is your time to be down. Maybe some of those who have been down for awhile might be up for a bit. When they go down again, then it will be your turn to go up again. You've had it way better than most for ages. It's someone else's turn now.

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@tippy - you're right in that I've had a good run, but I don't think there's anything such as "taking turns" to be trending upwards.

I've worked literally 6-7 days a week for the last 5 years to get where I am - it didn't happen out of nowhere. There wasn't some random algorithm saying "lets give jellybirddesigns a 5 year run at someone elses expense and then suddenly randomly turn the lights off".

Every single bit of growth I've had in this shop has been through my own hard work (90% of my items are handmade), blood, sweat and tears and I'm pretty sure that other shops weren't suppressed along the way just because my shop was growing. There's room on Ebay for everybody.

The only thing that sparked this was the change in subscription level. Nothing else.