Ebay limits sellers and is kicking sellers off site

Unfortunately there's not much we can do about it. Fact is we're selling on a site that we don't own, and they basically have a monopoly. I've dealt with these limits for a long time now, and have had them upped a dozen times now. I've worked my way up to 2500 listings/125k, although that seems a bit lopsided, I WISH I had 125k in inventory with less than 2500 listings. I've tried other up and coming sites and none of them can provide the volume. There's one in particular that looked promising like they might just be able to compete, well, I've had hundreds of listings on that site for a year and a half now and ZERO sales, sometimes I even forget all about it, luckily the listings are free. I wish someone would be able to compete, but like auminer said earlier, the only company that MIGHT be able to pull it off would be Google, but honestly even for them it would be an uphill battle and would take tons of money (although their stock is above $1k/share now and they do have the capital).

Here's the other side of the equation though, it IS all about the buyers. Without them there would be no sales, that's where these other sites are falling short. Buyers know they're safe on ebay, they don't have that same confidence with other unproven sites. Does this mean some people take advantage of that? Absolutely! I've been upset and vocal over what's been going on with ebay for a while as well, but the more I think about the big picture I've learned that being so upset is only bad for my health. I've been in retail my entire life, in retail you have to write off a percentage of sales as shrink, losses from theft/shady returns and other variables. Being an online only store that same percentage just transfers to scammers/shady returns/damage in shipping.

I do agree that some of this "purging" and "limits" are NOT justified, and I don't agree with a lot of the decisions they're making, but at the same time I can see what they're trying to do, I just think they're going about it the wrong way.