Hey guys!
Sorry I haven’t been on or posted anything in a while. I’ve been very busy with my stealth accounts! YAY!
Here are the latest updates:
1. I am now running two stealth accounts and both are selling high demand low priced items. I started building them up slowly. It actually didn’t take that long to build them up cause people started buying quickly so that allowed me an excuse to list a few more items each week. But I am still keeping only about 30-50 items up at one time. Haven’t had any problems from ebay or ppal. My auctions end everyday, and I withdrawal the money from ppal EVERYDAY to my bank account to avoid them trying to take any away from me. So everyday I start with $0 in my ppal account.
2. It may already be posted in the forums, but I’ve come to realize ebay does not like you revising listings (even if you truly did make a mistake you need to correct). Here is what I noticed:
- Whenever I made a revision from this page:
they requested a phone verification and I had to put in the pin number before I could make the revisions.
- Whenever I made a revision from this page (inside your "my ebay account":
I did not get a phone call request, I was able to make the revisions I wanted.
Does anyone know if you open an ebay account and you post all your auctions through Auctiva and never through the ebay listing page if ebay asks for a phone call? Just wondering.
2. Now that I feel like I’m getting the hang of things, I’ve been opening emails from ebay in my gmail account from buyers who ask me questions while connected to my high speed internet. Instead of dialing up and logging into ebay to answer them. So far no problems with doing this. I open those emails in my gmail account since gmail doesn’t open images and I can avoid ebay putting those little spy thingys on my computer. I respond to the buyer by clicking “reply” on my email and my response goes back to the buyers email address. I do NOT hit the yellow “respond” button on the ebay email (which doesn’t show up anyway cause there are no images in gmail). Then the buyer just responds back to my email address and we talk safely back and forth. I have been pretty lucky in this area that all my buyers have not blocked their email addresses when sending me a message.
3. I had a buyer ask to send me a money order for an item. I have no idea why I said, "ok". There was absolutely no way I could turn my ⊗⊗⊗⊗ name on ebay into anything that remotely resembled my real name. So I have a money order for a really small amount on my desk and no clue what to do with it. I was thinking of just endorsing the back with the name on the m/o and then my name underneath and deposit into my bank through the ATM. I’ve done this before with checks without a problem. Just wondering if I should attempt it again. I will search the forums for an answer.
That’s it!
Everything is running smoothly. About a month and a half after being kicked off ebay I am back up and selling where I was before!!
I will let you know if anything else happens.
