Hello! Just started selling on eBay. Here to find out how to increase limits ASAP.
Thank you for reading this, and sorry for the long post. In regards to increasing limits, I've checked out a few previous threads before posting here, so I'll keep searching through this site.
I'd also love if you could pitch me a few tips, and help me speculate as to why I was already rejected for increasing my limits. Here are some details: - Account created over 1 year ago (non stealth).
- Remained completely inactive (buying and selling) until I logged back in and switched to a seller account last month. I'm not a registered business, but I created and used a new verified business PayPal account with my social security number (I also have a couple other verified business PayPal accounts for my websites, so they might have detected my history already). Was immediately given selling limit of 50/5000.
- Sold first item earlier this month.
- A couple weeks ago, it gave me 2 options to increase my limits: link to another seller account, or talk to them on the phone. I sat back and waited, since I hadn't sold to my limits yet.
- I then sold to my limits a couple days ago (it allowed me to sell slightly more than 50 items for some reason). Just under $500 in sales, 100% perfect feedback.
- I just tried to increase my limits, and I noticed it added "upgrade to a business account" as an option (along with the two others above). I choose the business acct. option, filled out the info and submitted, and was rejected. The email only said "Unfortunately, we couldn't increase your selling limits. Every month you can still list up to 50 items or USD 5000, whichever comes first. "
- After that, and right now, I'm still able to request higher limits. My options are: link to another seller account, talk to them on the phone, or "tell us more about your business" (slighty different than "upgrade to a business account", which I choose before).
I'm really hoping to get my limits up to 300-500 items ASAP. I'm looking to put a lot of work into this account and profit $1-2k per month ($5-10k sales, I estimate).
Based on what I've read, calling them is too sketchy because of the way I dropship my items (not illegal though, and you can probably guess it since I think a lot of people do it too), so I was wondering if anyone can recommend what they would do in my scenario.
Next month, I plan to keep selling the same ~$10 items, while additionally listing a few others for ~$1000 to reach my $5k dollar limit (even though they won't sell). But, I have yet to list anything over $60. Is this the right approach for my case, or too risky?
Last edited by JamesNorth101; 11-25-2016 at 09:20 AM.
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