Got stuck on Ebay developers API rate limit, project stuck

Hi there!

I'm stuck with eBay's Developers Browse API limit of 5000 calls, and the eBay developers have refused to increase the rate without sales. Yet, I need to have products indexed, which puts me in a tough spot. I've already implemented smart bot limits for Bing and Google, leaving space for users, but in overall the platform require like 20K calls to generate income, I did spend over 2 years developing it, the way which I can only achieve that is if I have sales. Limiting inventory is the only option, but my codebase is huge, and even with frontier models, it's hard to achieve that due complex routing on paths from slugs etc..

Has anyone had luck with eBay by contacting them, explaining the system, caching methods, and proper API usage states in whole infrastructure, to get something out more? Did you manage to get more API calls than the standard limit of 5000, maybe anyone working there ? Any tips or experiences would be greatly appreciated, who knows Ebay API politics! And I did get on 27 DR by Ahrefs meanwhile

I’d go back through the Growth Check instead of just asking them for more calls. Their own docs say that’s the route for raising the 5k limit

If they already rejected you, I’d ask which exact part of the check failed. That’s probably more useful than rebuilding half the project around the current limit