Marketplace Support Reality: The Questions That Decide Your SLAs Every Day
Customer support on marketplaces is often misunderstood as purely reactive chaos. In reality, it is highly predictable: the vast majority of ticket volume is driven by just ten repetitive questions. The real challenge for sellers is not the complexity of these questions, but the “death by a thousand clicks” caused by fragmented inboxes and strict SLAs. This deep dive analyzes the anatomy of support volume, why it scales non-linearly, and how smart sellers turn “Where is my order?” into a retention engine.