Measuring economics= econometrics. It is a very specialised field of statistics. Which means about 0.01% of the population understands it. The first thing to understand about statistics is that a single point of data is worse than useless. You need to be up to date on hundreds of points of data to be in the game. The second point is that when a single point of data is used in a mass media publication it has been chosen to sell advertising and not because it might be significant.
So onto the claim made in the statement.”Annualised”in this case means that the figure for a period of 90 days has been multiplied by 4 to create a completely artificial number that a person who has studied arithmetic can do in their head. It has no particular meaning or significance, it just makes for a flashy headline. Every person and every product has its own inflation rate and it changes by the hour. Assembling billions of these individual points of data into an official figure is on par with astrology in terms of its predictive power. Weather prediction is way ahead of economics. Even the experts are guessing and a guess by an expert is just that, a guess.Your mileage will definitely vary.
eBay works well until something goes wrong, then it fails totally. The reason is that it is totally automated. When you received a “letter” like the one you got it is natural to assume that there is someone behind it who knows what they are doing. In fact it is a bot.
You cant ask a bot “why” it did something. It doesn’t know. eBay is a much too early version of machine “intelligence”. In fact it is not intelligent at all. This makes life easy for thieves.
The whole business model assumes that no one will ever have to be paid wages to sort things out. There is no budget to do so. The complaint process is just a bit of theatre to disguise the fact that you are being gaslighted.Time spent on getting a reply is time wasted. “They” don't care. In fact “they” don’t exist.