iTunes Match - Day X: 25.000 songs limit

Yesterday I bought a very nice REM Greatest Hits compilation from Amazon. 40 songs. After a while I noticed on iTunes in my "Recently Added" Playlist under the iCloud status column the new label "Maximum numbers of songs reached".
A brief google confirmed it: I was over the 25.000 song limit of iTunes and no more iTunes Matching for me.
I cleaned up my collection and brought it down to 24.500 songs. iTunes simply reread the songs and now matched also the REM songs into the cloud.
Anyone knows when this limit will fall?

eBay User Interface - Short short short

My continuing experiences selling on eBay.

After my disappointing experience with the mobile app, I went back to the Mac and tried to sell from there. 

The "Sell" form greeted me with the possibility to enter the EAN Barcode to identify the product. I located it and entered it. Next page brought me to the login. Entered that. After that I got a sales form. But the EAN article information was lost. Bad flow. 

Super bad flow: I am not able to enter the EAN number again. Now I needed to enter all the product information myself. 

Super super bad flow: After trying some more, I was able to switch from quick sale to normal sales form. Now I had the EAN number entry option again. Typed it in again. eBay proposed a category, selected that. Now the information was gone again and I had AGAIN to enter the EAN number for the third time. Completely unacceptable. 

Luckily the rest of the form was - as usual - straightforward and easy. 

eBay mobile app - long live the web browser!

Is eBay past its prime?

Had various disappointing experiences with eBay user interface today. As a market for everyone, I think the user interface is the business card for eBay. I hadn't had used the service for half a year or so and in the past had no problem with anything selling off surplus household stuff for 1 EUR starting price (toys, electronics, computer parts...).

Today, I tried to sell a DVB-T terrestial digital TV antennna. 

As I had my iPhone with me, I thought to sell it right off the cellar shelve, directly on the iPhone. Took a snapshot of the item. Started the eBay App. Walked through the first screens:

- Navigation nightmare: you never know where you are. You are entering data by tapping, but then have to manually go steps back until you are on the main "sales form" screen and then select the next topical item. The web experience is much better and straightforward (well, read my second article for some corrections)

- Photo nightmare: on the webpage I can simply take a photo and upload it. Not so on the iPhone. The app forces me to crop the photo to a square format, cutting off parts of the photo. Had I known this in advance, I would have taken a better composition of the picture. 2:0 for Web Selling

- Shipping costs: the selection of the shipping services was as on the web. However, on the web it let's me select the real price (which I know is 4,30 EURO). In the mobile app it presets to 2,00 EURO with no obvious way around this. And this then was the killer for me. I gave up and booted up the PC.

3:0 for Web Selling. Game over.