OP, sandypebbles is not (to the best of knowledge) an eBay employee, contractor, board member, executive, influencer etc.
The T&Cs referred to are eBay’s.
If you’ve not read the Help pages referring to Managed Payments - every one of them, in detail - you may have missed that unless a seller is selling regularly in quantities that eBay consider adequate, without a break of some months, without a significant change of item type, then eBay will class that seller as a “new seller” all over again. It isn’t a case of start selling the occasional item, build up to a certain level, then you’ve reached the benchmark and you can relax.
eBay are all about risk mitigation and to that extent their bots monitor and analyse continuing seller behaviour. For example, sellers who sell regularly, those with hundreds of sales each week or more, do not pose the risks of hijacked accounts which an irregular seller or long-dormant eBay member would do … while well-established sellers with a good history of selling an established inventory do not pose the risks of fraud or mismanagement which a new seller would do.
