Ebay's new seller restrictions?

[Taffeta]

I learned a lot from this - my Dad has been considering setting up with ebay and I wasn't aware of this witholding thing, so I'll tell him.

I've been using Ebay a long time, but what I found is that, if you don't sell for a while, they start restricting how many listings you can make. When you have a 100% record going back to 1998, and you have literally one week in which you can list items and post them out, that's more than a little bit frustrating.  I have no idea what's inspired all of this, except a sudden influx of ebay usage, but with the funds, is it like the old escrow system?

It doesn't make sense to me, being that it's so easy to charge back with paypal (unless it's not so easy now Paypal and Ebay are separate entities)

[Loona]

I thought I'd add some additional info which might be useful for others new to selling on eBay. it was surprising, and pretty annoying for me to find this out when I first sold on eBay myself (I have only sold 3 times and don't plan to make it frequent, even though all my 3 sales went well luckily):

your funds are not held back for 21 days if you provide a tracking number, but be aware that they do not accept any kind of tracking! I had a tracking number provided by the Hungarian Post on all my packages, however, upon trying to provide the number for the first sale I received the message that they can't accept it.
apparently they only accept tracking numbers from delivery companies they know and do business with (I'm sure there is a list somewhere, I didn't go into details so I'm not mentioning any specific companies), so some countries' local posts' tracking numbers might not work (again, I only know that it does not work for Hungary - it might work for your local post, but better to be aware than be surprised and annoyed ).

[Diamond]

Do they hold folds on all accounts, I have never had my funds held, but I have been on ebay since about a year after it started, if that long.  Either that or I never noticed it.  I sell in spits and spurts but can do about $500-1,000 during those selling bursts.

[Loona]

Do they hold folds on all accounts, I have never had my funds held, but I have been on ebay since about a year after it started, if that long.  Either that or I never noticed it.  I sell in spits and spurts but can do about $500-1,000 during those selling bursts.

I'm only suspecting this, but they might work differently for a seller who is already established and reputable like you. in a way it would make sense from eBay's PoV to set up further restrictions to newer sellers like me who only had these 3 sales ever. or maybe it also has to do with that all my sales were international.