Sorry, you might mistaken. Just had a dialogue with a buyer that wanted to buy a high value item thru GSP and was blocked by eBay. Turns out there is a $2500 limit for GSP purchases. Do not know if Piynry has a limit but it would not make any sense. That particular limit has been confirmed by several sources. There are other limits, maybe not in purchasing but as 1 example the USPS just increased the insurance limits above 1,000 per package on the eBay shipping program while Shipcover still limits to $1000. These are limits on eBay. Same with FedEx and maybe UPS. Outside of eBay the limits might be up to50K. Appears eBay is concentrating on low price items , letting buyers do what they want while you see sellers having problems with high value items. In today's marketplace, there are many higher value collectibles just for 1 example that sellers need more support from eBay. We are far away from the early days of eBay. In every situation that we have encountered outside of eBay, in the real world, business is always trying to increase the per item sales value. In fact, it is a fundamental fact that you should try to lower your cost while increasing your top line. Every business course, and advisor would tell you that you need to increase your top line. With inflation always around you need 4-6% just to still even. It seems the site always tells you to lower your top line with each unit you sell. They tell us that your sales will increase 6-7% if you use the offer option on fixed price but it will cost you money since the buyer can always just BIN but how much do you lose in top line money. when you have an increase in volume but at a lower sales price. We have asked many times but cannot get an answer. Our guess is at least 10% and maybe more. Since buyers do what they want and we have offers turned off, we get 2/3 's of our email asking some form of offer discount, and the range is 20% of listed price up. Oh, sometimes it is close, but it is clear we do not have the "best offer" feature on. It took a long time to catch up to the auto items clicked off, but we finally got to zero.
In any case, it creates bad vibes as buyers get insulted often. You might be surprised how many buyers quote all the common tactics taught by advisors for example for a collectibles with the "its in the guide" as a justification.
Lastly, it this is the worse example of a lack of support. eBay has no regard for your time, which I see many sellers self abuse anyway. Your time is the most valuable asset you have. You can always find something to sell but time lost, once lost cannot ever be gotten back. For example, changes to the site have caused us many man hours which at a modest labor cost of $20 per hour added up to over 1500 man hours yearly just to process the changes to the shipping form. I see many comments here about sellers losing money selling and they have not even added in their own labor or time.
Lastly, back in my college day I had friend who would work on his car. He had a can next to the car and would put a nickel in the can every so often. I asked him about that and he told me that is how he paid himself so he could have a beer after.
