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by cucumber3732842 44 days ago
eBay doesn't want to deal with low volume hobbyists. They tend to make mistakes, cause support resources to be used, etc, etc. It wants to deal in people who are either professionals or for whom this is a serious side gig who will do the learning curve once and then make thousands of sales.

It's no different than how permitting departments hate homeowners trying to DIY because they make them work whereas the professionals submit stuff they can just rubber stamp.

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Well, in that case they are no longer the platform they claimed to be but are wearing an edgar suit shoddily masquerading as the original.