You guys have made a right meal of things to be fair.
1)You need transactions, not feedbacks.
2)You need transactions that are near perfect- No items received, returns or poor description ratings.
3)You need individual transactions, not customers coming back for more- If you have a returning customer in a 7 day period then it still counts as ONE transaction, even if they purchase 17 items over 9 different times.
4)You need seller transactions, not buyer.
5)You need transactions in the marketplace where you are in the red. If you are 6.5% in UK and sell to Global, then you are pissing in the wind and vice versa.
6)You will go over defect % anyway this month, as the defect % is calculated for previous month. Meaning that what you sell NOW will affect the NEXT evaluation.
You might think "Oh noes, my account is doomed" and that very well might be the case but there are couple of silver linings to the ****cloud that is fast approaching:
a)You have more than 5 days to sell, in fact you have till the end of the month to affect next evaluation period.
b)If you don't get the suspension right away and IF you are working with high limits, then they CAN start by just dropping your limits a bit- just as a warning.
c) You might actually have more time than you think.
Conclusion:
There is a major ****could heading your way and you might just have time to take cover. If you get lucky, you might get your limits lowered and your account will stay active and if you manage to get your transactions up, you might just be in a better situation next evaluation day.
There are many IFs and BUTs and MAYBEs , but the reality is that each account is treated differently and if you read the forum then you see that. You know that the ****storm is right around the corner, but you don't know how bad it is- It might be a light shower, something that can be dealt with by using an umbrella but it also might be he grandaddy of all ****hurricanes and you'll not survive it, even if you'd have a bunker at the back of your house.
All you can do is hope for the best, sell as much as the **** hits the fan and hope for the best. Thats literally all you can do.
My advice:
Get yourself suited and booted like Paddington did back in 1958 and get your mind and body ready for a ****fest. You will sell faster BEFORE they punish you because once they reduce the sellings limits, your ranking in eBay search will be affected also. If you don't get suspended right away, but they limit your limits then don't get undressed yet- Thats exactly what they want.
Once you do that, you'll notice that the ****storm that once was very brown and white has turned into cyber warfare where everything goes: Your listings will stay active, your account will not be suspended and on paper everything looks normal. In reality your listings will all suffer- Your items will not appear in search, they will limit the traffic to your listings and that means that you may as well book the bank, dress up nicely, get some flowers and arrange your account funeral- There is almost no way back from this.
Read between the lines:
Suspension is a quick death of an account. Reduced limits and above normal defect % will slowly just kill your account because without traffic, you will not sell and without sales, there are no transactions and without transactions, you will not improve the defect %.