New Account - How much should/can I list?

[lokimischief]

Hey everyone,

Just bought an aged new account that's passed the 1st listing / suspension.

The account has an extreme high limit (100,000/$1,000,000 - thanks juke123321)

My question is, I want to baby the account and make sure I go about all the stealth steps. I have thousands of inventory that I'm going to spread across multiple accounts but my question is the start. I listed 4 items on day one (and already sold one). How slowly should I start listing the inventory? I had only planned on doing around 10-15 items a week but I want to know if that's too much too fast? I don't mind taking it slow, that's not an issue. I just want to keep the account safe and baby it.

Thanks everyone, happy stealthing!

[ebaywanton]

I would say do 5 this week, then 8 next week; and a very gradual increase...

[e2free]

Even high limit accounts no use, you still have to go slowly any spike on sale get you in trouble, i would say 20 to 30 items first month value of each item £5 to 10 will do then slowely builup

[cafonabob1]

Sell 1 thing. Sell 2 things, sell 5 things, sell 8 things, etc... eventually Paypal and ebay will ask for documents. Depends on what you are selling.

If you have 1000's of items like that, it might be worth your time to do it right and make an LLC and start everything fresh and legit.

[ed13]

Originally Posted by cafonabob1

Sell 1 thing. Sell 2 things, sell 5 things, sell 8 things, etc... eventually Paypal and ebay will ask for documents. Depends on what you are selling.

If you have 1000's of items like that, it might be worth your time to do it right and make an LLC and start everything fresh and legit.

I registered a INC, and they still suspended me. I have all the paperwork and docs

[Pandoras_box]

Originally Posted by e2free

Even high limit accounts no use, you still have to go slowly any spike on sale get you in trouble, i would say 20 to 30 items first month value of each item £5 to 10 will do then slowely builup

e2free is absolutely correct. A 1000/50,000 account is no better than a 10/500 account. Your real limit lies in how much you can safely throttle sales in the first few weeks/months of sales.
In short, if you can understand that you can blow it with a 10/500 account, then you'd see why a 1000/50,000 account is not significantly better for stealth these days.

ebayorbust and Phazor have posts that respectively show how to safely list without getting suspended and how to safely increase sales over weeks.

I use these without ever getting suspended with first listings or losing accounts to PayPal at the initial stages.
Look around the forum for it.

[rsot]

Lot of nice advice given OP and quite a few posts around for you to consider