Mandatory transition to professional seller | Questions and answers among users

Anonymous User · 2023-06-03T09:22:30.214000Z

Good morning everyone,I would like to ask if someone can give me some advice on how to behave in the face of an eBay message in which I am being forced to switch to a professional seller:I called and they replied that I have exceeded a max sales cap in 12 months and they are forcing me to switch to a professional seller.The fact is that I exceeded this cap because I sold almost all my vintage radios and TVs from my collection (items of considerable value); moreover, naively, I also agreed to sell items that were not mine as a favor to a friend who is not familiar with eBay.I would like to remain a private seller because at this point I no longer have any valuable items to sell, I only have spare parts left (vintage components), whose value is however far from that of the equipment I sold, so sales forecasts for the next few years would be for much lower amounts.At the moment I have taken everything off eBay, also because in summer I regularly do not sell anyway, I usually only sell six months a year.How does eBay’s mechanism work that forces you to switch to a professional seller? Do they consider only the amount of revenue or also the type of sale? For thermoionic tubes (spare parts for vintage radios) I had studied and put into practice selling with variants to make things easier, specifying anyway that they were all sold while stocks last; can these variant listings affect the evaluation of the type of seller?Can I stay silent hoping that, in light of the fact that until next year I will not put anything up for sale, this procedure will not be applied? Or would it be better for me to contact them by written message explaining this situation?The operators say that nothing can be done.I would be sorry to close the account, I have been registered on eBay since it started; in fact, I was registered on ibazar before ebay arrived and from there they moved me to eBay, back in 2001.Thank you very much in advance to anyone who is knowledgeable about these things and wants to spend a few minutes advising me.

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