Whether they do or not we'll most likely never know but ebay often seems to work on the principal that it doesn't matter how many of its sellers it upsets or pushes away, there is a never ending queue of replacements just waiting to take their place. So it can treat them as outrageously as it likes and it won't affect ebay to any great degree, the next batch will accept it because they know nothing better.
I wonder if that approach works as well now that there are more sites to sell on or could it be one of the reasons why for the past few years sales and numbers of sellers reported by ebay have usually fallen every quarter?
It would be easy enough to reduce the numbers of sellers being inconvenienced by Holds, if ebay wanted to do so. The fact that they do not just makes people suspect all the more that ebay makes money out of inconveniencing (to put it mildly) as many sellers as possible.
Ebay should be asking itself the following:
Why has the definition of "infrequent / returning" seller been changed to include those that have been having an annual wardrobe / garage clear-out. When that has been their selling pattern for years without incurring Holds? Why should that now incur a Hold when they have a proven problem free sales record?
When signing-up for MP a sellers personal details and bank details are all verified and accepted. Payments are made, sometimes many payments over a period of months until, without warning, they are put on Hold because something has to be re-verified.
Why, so often, is this only discovered after a sale with money to take hostage? It could just as easily be done between sales.
Why is the first approach "Ebay is holding your cash until you comply", when the seller has done nothing wrong. If anything it's ebays verification process that's at fault and most sellers would be happy to rectify ebays mistakes without being blackmailed.
The same applies where a seller makes numerous sales, all without problems, all paid promptly to their bank, until ebay finds some problem that apparently needs immediate attention.
As is so often the case with ebay it's not what they are doing that is outrageous, it's the way they go about doing it.
Ebay should know the old saying "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's 99% certain that it's a duck"
The same applies to "Money Grabbing".
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