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stealth guide actually does tell you to throttle sales on new accounts.
If it's a while since you've read it, then it could slip your mind.
These days, it is typical to allow a month go by before listing on new accounts. In that time, you'd naturally browse, add items to the checkout, watch items and create more accounts.
For your business type, I'd recommend another 30 days of building up sales slowly:
So it would go sort of like this:
Week 1 = 3 days auction of a low-risk item (generic mailing envelope for example)
Week 1 = 3 days auction of a low-risk item (Relist the same item)
Repeat same the same for weeks 2- 4 each time adding an extra item of a different sort. Just make sure it is extremely low risk and generic.
Send these items out tracked.
From weeks four onwards, you could list your digital goods but I'd not surpass $200 in sales per month, per account. Send a blank, tracked envelope for every purchase.
Double your sales every month and keep sending out the tracked envelopes.
For your niche, I would personally not exceed $2500 in sales per month, per account. And I would continue to send tracked letters perhaps for no less than 50% of sales per account.
Painfully tedious, I know but if you really want to cart away 20k on a monthly basis with your business model, you cannot escape the meticulous work and care that makes a successful stealth account.