Worst is that they dangle(d /not sure if they still do) a lower tier for accounts in good standing for a certain amount of time. I had an aced account but every time I was close to the supposed tier I got some psycho customer that would find nonsense to complain about and just stop me from qualifying.
In truth it is corruption at every level. Taxes are stupid high for a modern business model. Like if a business can exist on 25% margins what the hell am I paying 10% more for. I can’t pass that shit on and it is taxing used goods where the government has done absolutely nothing to justify the cost, it is just a criminal tariff to destroy social mobility as far as I’m concerned. Shipping prices are ridiculous for what they are doing, and largely inefficient. Then eBay doesn’t do very much at all in terms of actual support. It is like reddit where almost everything they are working on is absolute trash while the real core service is neglected and misunderstood. They should be cutting all of their fees to a third of what they are and push all corporate airhead plans and projects into their own business spaces as independent business like operations funded by foolish investors. Screw the design prettiness and seasonal junk; just make it fiercely efficient and bulletproof so that selling on eBay is not even noticeable on the bottom line. PayPal is like 3 times as much as a bad terminal transaction processor too.