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Originally Posted by mcmx  I never liked the idea of starting at $0.99 but why not just start your auctions higher...? Problem solved | True, but you can never tell how many bids you're going to get. And it doesn't solve the problem completely. The problem is that every unique bid appears to eat up 1 quantity of the selling limit. For small sellers, or sellers with lots of products listed, this may become an even bigger problem.
Imagine having a selling limit of 10. You list 3 items and each of them gets only 3 bids from 3 different bidders. You can then only list 1 more item, as you've already reached 9 (3x3). So you could end up only being able to sell 4 items instead of 10 that month.
And for big sellers ...if I see a new competitor now starting up with a small account, I could just use 10 different accounts to bid on 1 of his items and he won't be able to list anything else that month. Since he won't sell anything that way, his selling limits also don't get raised, as he doesn't get any feedback. So he's stuck at 10 in a loop forever. Easy way to prevent the competition from even rising.
Last edited by imjustme; 12-19-2012 at 01:22 PM.
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Though if it's only here right now, doesn't mean eBay won't implement it globally later. We had the 10 items selling limit since over a year now and it was just recently introduced to the US as well now.
