eBay Responds to Questions on Hidden Selling Limits

by: Map

Ebay I will settle for nothing less than the total destruction of the ebay corporation.

All lawfully of course.

Happy to hear about the coming 3000 job layoffs at ebay today.
http://news.yahoo.com/ebay-may-slash-thousands-jobs-ahead-pa

ypal-split-015609224.html;_ylt=A0LEVrja_4hUYIEAvekPxQt.

Luckily for you the unemployment benefits are at your leisure.

Most of us Small business sellers do not get that option and are heading for the Bankruptcy court line.

Somewhat Sorry for them loosing their jobs but many of them are guilty as sin for not reporting to the authorities the criminal acts of their employers when they were aware!

Plus ebay executives & BOD are selling ebay anyway just after the paypal split so your job will be gone anyway.

Calling all Ebay employees to help us sellers bring down ebay and send those men to jail.

Release documents, recording and emails to the authorities and media.

Your conscious if you have one will thank you later.

by: rudestar

Im limited.
Doubled inventory, same sales.

by: iheartjacksparrow

Notice that Ryan states: "You can see MOST of your account limits in My eBay." (Emphasis added.) To me that says that there are limits that you cannot see.

by: aim04744

Double speak BS. As usual.  

by: pace306

He's LYING.

Lyin Ryan is simply covering up for Jarvis - the removal of the posts in "broad daylight" was too telling.

The post(s) were reinstated and the cover up begins.

As a "venue", there is no exposure to eBay. THAT is what his guard dog PAYPAL is for.

They have the sellers CC info, bank info, SS number or EIN (if its a business) - PLEASE ... if you believe him, Ive got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn - CHEAP.

Ive had the same Gross amount of sales on eBay for the last 6-8 yrs - no matter what I do, its almost always the same. Hes LYING.

And Cassini? PLEASE LYIN RYAN - put your money where your mouth is. Scrap Cassini and license a Google internal search engine - like many other manufacturers do. Let see what happens THEN.

EVERYTHING eBay does is fraud PERIOD.

by: Maui5150

What I have to laugh about this... Ebay states that they do all of this to provide a safe environment.. Yet they do nothing to monitor or investigate buyers.

Case in point, I had a new buyer, 0 feedback and new account place a $7000 bid.  

by: nsc

Terrell's statement that "the overwhelming majority of current eBay sellers are not impacted by selling limits of any kind" is the kind of lawyer's statement that is very likely true, but quite irrelevant.

The overwhelming majority of eBay sellers are amateurs, selling the occasional unwanted item. They may have real risk-related limits, e.g. against selling a $10K diamond ring after having sold only a few used household items before. In such a case, there would be genuine concern about a hijacked account. But the seller is very unlikely to bump up against the restriction.

However, this has absolutely nothing to do with the artificial glass ceiling eBay is secretly putting onto most of its small business sellers.

by: eBankrupted

'Generally' is a very interesting twist of words. As a 4 year old, I could read and write before school, and tested in the 98th percentile for the nation in reading comprehension before I knew 'grammar' so I see abstracts that might not be 'visable' - and that's the key here.

You can list 2 million in inventory without 'limits' (generally), BUT how much of your inventory is VISABLE? You see, that's the shell game I think this corporate tool Ryan is using here. It is purely legal semantics.

Until this Ryan Moore corporate fruitloop is put under oath, he can lie.. er, ah, sort of 'generally' bend certain concepts to make it all appear ethical, BUT if upon cross-examination, under oath, we find this term 'Generally' has an 'invisible' plural meaning, then the flaming cat is out of the bag, folks.

So, you have or don't have "listing limits", but what is the mechanism for 'visibility limits' on search for 'selling limits' - especially for those sellers who have jumped through all hoops and achieved TRS without 'defects', etc..?

Something in Ryan's carefully worded 'General' statement has a very fishy reek of corporate gobbledygook, and the fact that ebay has knee-jerked this fuzzy 'general' response is very suspect, in my opinion. Hopefully one of the 3000 laid off ebay workers will spill the beans on the corporate rat lies.

I believe ebay fears getting caught for defrauding its CONSUMERS (sellers) out of a service, and has back door deals that might be uncovered IF the FTC pushes hard enough. Just an opinion. From someone with a natural BS meter for reading comprehension, and a seller who watched page views go down nearly 99%, with a TRS 100% FB.'Generally' is a very interesting twist of words. As a 4 year old, I could read and write before school, and tested in the 98th percentile for the nation in reading comprehension before I knew 'grammar' so I see abstracts that might not be 'visable' - and that's the key here.

You can list 2 million in inventory without 'limits' (generally), BUT how much of your inventory is VISABLE? You see, that's the shell game I think this corporate tool Ryan is using here. It is purely legal semantics.

Until this Ryan Moore corporate fruitloop is put under oath, he can lie.. er, ah, sort of 'generally' bend certain concepts to make it all appear ethical, BUT if upon cross-examination, under oath, we find this term 'Generally' has an 'invisible' plural meaning, then the flaming cat is out of the bag, folks.

So, you have or don't have "listing limits", but what is the mechanism for 'visibility limits' on search for 'selling limits' - especially for those sellers who have jumped through all hoops and achieved TRS without 'defects', etc..?

Something in Ryan's carefully worded 'General' statement has a very fishy reek of corporate gobbledygook, and the fact that ebay has knee-jerked this fuzzy 'general' response is very suspect, in my opinion. Hopefully one of the 3000 laid off ebay workers will spill the beans on the corporate rat lies.

I believe ebay fears getting caught for defrauding its CONSUMERS (sellers) out of a service, and has back door deals that might be uncovered IF the FTC pushes hard enough. Just an opinion. From someone with a natural BS meter for reading comprehension, and a seller who watched page views go down nearly 99%, with a TRS 100% FB.

by: handmedownheaven

The damage is already done. That employee post has been screen shot thousands of time and is plastered on every social media being shared.

by: XebayX

''No, the majority of sellers are not impacted by seller limits. By way of analogy, virtually all credit card holders have spending limits, but they’re not impacted by those limits unless they try to exceed their spending limits.''

Virtually all credit card holders are given notice of limits by the credit card companies (by law). eBay does not tell sellers what their limits are.
It's all a bunch of BS. They are skirting the issue talking as if listing limits are the topic. We are talking about visibility and sales volume limits (look, a bunny rabbit).
Like many other sellers are reporting, I have either a daily, weekly, or monthly average ''secret'' sales volume limit, and once I hit that dollar number, my sales drop to zero. It seems to be getting worse month by month, inching downward with more frequent no visibility days. I suspect the bots see it as a downward trend in sales and are penalizing me progressively further, when it is eBay causing the downward trend, not my reputation, pricing, listing descriptions, or anything else. I sell plenty when my listings are visible, and then ZERO.  

by: val2525

"By way of analogy, virtually all credit card holders have spending limits, but they’re not impacted by those limits unless they try to exceed their spending limits. "

Nice try, Ryan, but a poor analogy.  ALL of my credit cards have CLEARLY identified my spending limits.. Absolute total BS from eBay ... as usual.  

by: Tornad0sRul

@Rudestar, double inventory same sales can be due to many factors like time of year, pricing too high, saturated market, type of item for sale, etc.  Just because a business fails on EBay doesn't mean that it's necessarily EBay's fault.  It's Business 101 that some will fail and most of the time it's due to poor management.

by: rosachs

"Selling limits" refer to limitations imposed on a seller's ability to list (to offer for sale) on the site.

"Sales limits" would refer to limitations imposed on a seller's actual sales and/or ability to sell (via exposure limitations) on the site.

Sales vs Selling -- limits to one are not the same as limits to the other.

by: Tornad0sRul

I only see selling limits on my account. Where are there "sales limits?" It would be an oxymoron to place sales limits on a seller wouldn't it?
Personally I have never even came close to my selling limits even when I was crazy busy. Like they said it is typically not an issue to have these limits and they are there for precautionary reasons. Clearly if you came close to or exceeded your limit you can get it increased.

by: Postthoughts

ebay is not a platform to be trusted if you want to build a business.   They have not been honest with sellers for years.

Back when the Donaho took over, he lied in every announcement about every change that he made.  It was all smoke and mirrors. Every time he promised something, he broke his word.

When he called the sellers complaints "Just noise" I moved 95% of my business off ebay.
I  only keep a small presence there to drive more traffic to my own site.

How many horror stories do you need to read about how ebay just shut off a long time seller with great feedback and they have no appeals process?

Why on earth would any sane person want to do business with a platform like that?  A platform that can put you out of business without warning and without recourse.  

Even with the small amount of listings that I put on ebay, I know my items are not always visible.  Many of us experience the clumping of sales from one specific area of the country. For a month, all sales were in Washington State.  Then all from Texas.  They have been playing with your business for years.

It blows my mind that ebay doesn't realize, sellers were also buyers.  I never shop ebay unless I am desperate to find some obscure part that I need and can't find it anywhere else.  ebay has become my last resort to buy and sell.  

All the reports show that ebay's traffic is dropping year over year while Amazon's continues to increase.  Etsy has made huge strides in taking away business in certain categories.

This slip, by this employee, just confirms what I always thought, we have always been manipulated and it was even worse than most people thought.  

by: Tiffee Jasso

Seriously, none of it matters Ebay is being taken down so as to sell for a rock bottom price. Someone or several someones will get a generous brokerage fee for the role they have played to squash the sales venue.
If Alibaba buys Ebay? most of us are history or at least any that do not sell Chinese imports. Personally, I cannot see taking on any more Chinese business practices than are already being used at Ebay.  

by: blaumann

Ilooked ion Selling Manager. No such thing as all seling. Limits are a hidden mystery.

by: Just Plain Irritated

I am an experience long time eBay seller. I have looked everywhere I can think of and cannot find what Ryan Moore calls "Monthly selling limits section".  I find nothing which even remotely looks like what he was talking about.  

I do know I have hidden sales limits, because I can't move above a specific daily average, no matter what I do. And I have never seen a red alert.

The dishonesty, lack of integrity of these people is mind boggling.

by: thehosst

Ina, I really would like to know answers to 2 VERY important questions:

1) Limits are shown in the seller dashboard, but monthly listing limits, why are there daily limits as well, you can have 2 millions dollars to list or sell per month but the real limits are 200 dollars a day? 200 x 30 days, does not equal 2 million a month, does it?

2) Why are people in India deciding the faith and limits on a USA based seller?

Can we please get answers to those questions?

Ina please, I'm a big fan and reader and I do not get the chance to ask any questions to any eBay executives the way you do, thank you and Happy Holidays!  

by: Philip Cohen

“generally”, “most”, “majority”, “not impacted” …

Well, there’s one person that definitely is “impacted”, and that’s “Lyin” Ryan Moore …

Fortunately, it’s very easy for anyone to tell when an eBay or "PreyPal" spokesperson is being disingenuous—their lips are moving! ... http://bit.ly/YvxFEg

And why do most of these “limits” exist at all? Most probably so that Johnny Ho can (desperately) funnel the remaining searchers/buyers to his “preferred” merchants …

The eBay executive suite—where the incompetent mingle with the disingenuous, the malevolent and the outright criminal, and the just plain stupid ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas