sorry to tell u just that but this is the wrong way of thinking in my view , because, u know what , having an item spending much time is not so much of a big deal anyway … the reason why we are all in a hurry to have the item accepted , this is becose the whole system is based on number, volume and that we need exposure to get noticed and sell. If not there is no hurry. I would also like to add this , numbers and quality are definitely super important indeed … they are conditioning sales as well … . The saturation of the market, especially with things are not that incredibly extraordinary (in other words which can be judged too flat or even sometimes rather poor) are teh reason why people have trouble to sell and why their items can hardly be found in good positions of search engines , so that they sel or not … kinds of monopolies that u can find here sometimes also are very hurting lost of guys sales as well as we allknow the real importance that being in the first teo pages actually has … otherwise u basically have to take your customer here to buy your item if u wish …
as for discrepancies between categories what u mentioned is not wrong indeed … there maybe a problem of time to control and so on , some item probably take way more time but gaps between categories are too wide …
as for having thinhgs reviewed very quickly , on a longer run this is not that beneficial as the more items u accept daily, the more new items u have on sale additionally and the more yoru chance to to have a good number of sale with one item is reduced in the end …