Becoming New Top Rated Seller requirements either broken or deceptive

Ebay, this sucks bad.

The first goal for a new seller is to make Top Rated Seller.

Not only does it yield a fee discount, it also makes the new seller feel successful and accomplished, and publishes that fact to the world.

So what are the requirements to become a new Top Rated Seller?
Pretty clear. Have good stars.  Sell 100 items worth $1000.

So the new seller, over a few months, puts together one of the 100/1000 criteria, and anxiously waits for the other to finally arrive.  The criteria checks are all green but one.

The day comes.  The 100th sale.  Maybe tomorrow I'll be a TRS.

No, says ebay. Gotcha. You have to wait until the evaluation

Resigned, the new seller waits until the next evaluation, some part of a month away. Evaluation day comes.  No TRS. Well, maybe the next day.  No, no TRS.

An investigation yields a new criterion, missing from the prior list which was all checked green: to be a TRS requires being a PowerSeller.

And the criteria for PowerSeller is higher. $3000 in sales.

This is a low blow, and to no value at all.

Broken software?  Please fix.  Deliberate deception?  Bah.