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Someone at ebay fell and banged their head with limit increases
 

Holy moly.

Signed into an account that is close to 5 months old and had 10-1000 limits.

Limits are now 300 and 15,000.00.

About fell off the chair at this limit and had to look twice to make sure it was for real.

I have had some crazy raises recently but nothing like going from 10-1000 to 300 and 15k.

Just so members will know all I have listed is box lot, yard sale, garage sale items on this account for the 5 months.

Nothing new, all usable household type items.

Items I mainly get in box lots at local antique auctions etc.

May be even some thrift store items in the group.

Someone must have fell and hit the wrong button on this one.

Will baby this for a few more months and hammer it to death come November and December.

Something is changing inside ebay i feel.

The 'sell more' division is winning over the 'kill them all' security division.

You can only mess up for so long at the head of big corp until the wind changes.

Likely the VP of 'kill them all' security division i going to 'spend more time with his family'. Last time i talked to customer service about a suspended account, they told me to go 'sell on amazon'. Now that amazon is eating their lunch, ebay is changing its stance it seems.

Hopefully that will last.

Next on my list is the email 'please come back , we have been too harsh on you mr seller'

J.

i could not have said it any better. Thank you for being so honest and truthful !!!!!! You rock !!!

@Sandy D

The other day I logged into an account and the limits were at 1,800 & $34,000. The last time I logged into that account the limits were at 425 & $15,000

The article jeffweico found the other day ties nicely into this sudden increase in sales ebay is pushing. I'm sure its the driving force behind all of these limit increases. Competition between amazon and ebay is good for us sellers...

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-ne...than-ebay.html

It sure is.

Also when I found out ebay hired a team of consultants to come in and help them handle customer service issues with sellers that told me they were in deep trouble.

Ever since then they have done some non ebay like things.

Remember it is ebay, notorious for given you one hand to make it look all sweet and then taking the another route to take something away.

Yea the raises have been insane, I have some accounts name branded new items that jumped to 100/10,000 in 2 months, and raises and double raises everytime I log in an account now. They must of missed their projections for the first 2 quarters so now need to make it up in the last 2 or something

Last November I talked to two ebay reps about an out of the blue ban of one of my high limit ebay seller account. They both told me to go 'sell on amazon'. They were obviously reading from a script.

Fastforward a couple of month later. Quarters have been missed... Now we are seeing the raise-o-matic machine in full gear to try to stop the bleeding.

I hope they fired the 'Captain Genius' at eBay who came up with these kind of stupid "go sell at Amazon" ideas.

It is also probably because ebay finally realizes that they need the seller just as much, if not MORE, than the buyers.

Ebay is not like amazon.
Ebay is just an escrow service and middle man that you pay for a parking space to per sale.
They hold NO stock or items and have failed at arbitration and are also far from professional.

Lets hope for more positive changes in treating their sellers better...

The eBay and Amazon paradigm is an interesting one.

Because Amazon essentially makes nothing (gross margin) on tangible goods it sells. All its real revenue comes from digital media sales. Kindle, MP3 downloads, etc.

I think eBay knows that. So those members selling media and items that Amazon basically sells at cost. I think they could care less about you.

I have noticed over the past few years member who sell tangible goods. Clothing, antiques, older toys. Things that eBay isn't as much directly competing with Amazon with. Those are the sellers they seem to care more about. More to Sandy's point about getting raises in limits for selling household and garage sale type stuff. People selling Iphone cords or whatever else I do think eBay could care less about you. As to why they have straight up told some members to sell on Amazon.

Personally I buy stuff off Amazon they have mastered customer service and if you are prime member getting stuff in two days rather than driving to the store is and possibly paying more is awesome. Personally I have taken out a major short position in Amazon stock. I think it could crash up to 90%.

On my real account , like first week of January , I was suspended just from selling, the reason "your a good seller that's why your still allowed to buy , and there's many other sites like Amazon you can sell on" bunch of idiots didnt realize they were saying this to alot of members, guess they took their advice.

I need to check their sales see if they are down. But it would make alot of sense why everyone is getting this big raises.

So many ebay sellers drop ship from amazon so Amazon in a sense owns Ebay

Large mega corp also don't understand what they are fully doing.

Ebay probably did not measure impact of fighting fraud like ' a blind man with a shotgun in a busy street'.

I expect more changes coming from ebay.

Lol dmshark, you heard the 'go sell on amazon' too.

I was floored when i heard that. First time i heard a company encourage me to go their competitor.

Today, there are more stealth flights under eBay radar outplaying the robotic control system, causing a rainbow alarm. Subsequently, alerting the traffic controllers to manage the insecurity in favor of the stealths to allow a smooth flow of business competition against Amazon.

I honestly hope the this benefits the struggle of the innocent trying to make a living.

They shutdown half of my accounts due to link to old???
However, they also raised one of remains to 300/15000.
All others are 150/5000.

just got raised to 20/1000 for no reason :)

So true

Need more pressure for eBay

Makes stealth fun to do

:brushteeth:

This is absolutely insane for an employee to say this.

I got 4 accts at 250,000 each!!! No kidding, your guess is as good as mine.
What I remember is that I had all Pos feedback for all sales (about 50) with 5.0 stars DSR's.
Got these 'good work, ada boy emails' from ebay then pow!

Two employees told me the same thing on different days. They were reading from a script obviously. Epic strategic fail.

Congrats!!! I want to get there too.

This morning I was going through my list of accounts to get ready for tomorrow nights listing and found an account I have not listed on for a couple of months.

Thought what the heck I had better go see what the account had listed and check out paypal.

Signed in. Went from 250-5000 to 500-7500.

One of those accounts I have already sold over 100 items on this year so for the next month or so I will just toss on a handful of items to keep it active and then hit it with 500 items come December.

I've been telling you guys this for quite awhile. Ebay and amazon are shaking in there boots right now because of Alibabba is seriously consider going public and expanding to the USA and EUROPE. Ebay used to be the big fish in the pond but theres always a bigger fish.


Add the looming holiday season and you have a very anxious ebay.


I always heard the you need to find another platform to sell on, never said amazon directly. I told them that strategy will come back to haunt you when the competiton has more sellers and buyers than you do and your earnings fall and you miss the projections from wallstreet because of your piss poor attitude.

Digi Darwinism people.

Sorry for a stupid question, where do you see the seller limit rate in your account?

Thank you

Yeah. I am getting sick of some the eb rep terrible attitude when tell you to sell somewhere else, especially when they pushed the wrong buttons and trash your account by mistake.

I am even getting some paypals with no 21 day holds at all from the get go.

Go figure.

Wish they lift my last two current active account up to more than 10 items per month. One is qualify for powerseller since last month but it haven't start yet, hope it does in a few days when they do the review.

Just make more accounts you will find after 20 - 30 accounts u will get better at making stealth accounts and u will see your limits being raised on multiple accounts and u will have more limits than u will need.

The first group of accounts I made took the longest to mature and get raises, the first I made just got a raise last month after 7 months

But as I created more accounts you start making them better and with patience and now accounts that are just 2 months old have no Paypal holds and limits of 100/10,000

Can you elaborate on what "making them better" means? I was under the impression that as long as you follow stealth guidelines (not linking, aging accounts, listing slowly in the beginning, completely different set of cookies/information/ips) that the accounts will be fine and will get limit raises over time?

Thanks for the inspiration. My first batch of 10 accounts is not that great but i am learning a lot. Each mistake or road block i pause and think. Each phone call with eb/pp i learn a little more.

My current goal is to reach 100 active accounts with many i built myself.

You need to also sell to your max limits

That is the correct basis.

As you make more (stealth) accounts, you work out how to sell to limits and how to stay under radar.

Practice makes you better.

:mod:

limits raised, no holds, me too!
 

I am having the same experiences.

I hadn't really been checking the limits until I noticed one account went from 5000 to 45000 in the middle of the month. This waiting for the next month to lift selling limits rule seems to have been thrown out the window [an idea I support by the way]. I had payment holds on 2 new accounts lifted after about a month [I was shipping within 24 hours of payment].

Lets make hay while the sun shines [once ebay comes back online that is]

I guess the key thing is PayPal. I mean soon has you hit the limit on PayPal, you are required to send in the docs. So until the limits are not raised on PayPal, the ebay increase would not be useful.

There's only so much you can learn from the guide and forum which will give u the base knowledge to create accounts and operate.

But than there is alot you will learn from actually doing, experience is priceless.

As you keep making accounts you figure out different things to do and not, you sharpen your skill just like anything else, the more you do the better you will get.

It becomes an art form making and running stealth accounts and that is the part that comes with experience , you can only go so far from reading and lectures and than when u take that knowledge and apply it you start perfecting your craft.

One of my newest accounts received a 300/$30,000 raise a couple days ago, and yes there is randomness but the last group of accounts I made are all at 100/5000 minimum and they are just under 3 months with Paypal holds gone

And I believe patience is the biggest key to stealth

In the beginning you are just cranking them out so that you can get sales coming in after u were just shut down and there is no waiting just create and list .and we all been there and we all need money so you have to do what u need to do.

But after you build enough accounts where you are back and bigger than you were when u were suspended comes the big growth.

Now you have steady sales comming in more than enough limits and at this time I believe to be the best in creating because you are doing it calmly and with patience and these accounts will come out the best and you will understand what I'm talking about when u get to this point

I am getting back to having close to 500 active accounts. I was close when I started selling accounts and now climbing back up by making several a week for myself and listing on them each week.

Why are you needing to call them is what I would ask because I have not talked to eb or pp for a long time.

Your creating them and selling right away which triggers this identity check create ur Paypal ads bank And CC than your ebay after the 3 days for deposits to show.

Than browse buy few items , after about two weeks , some like a month but if you create over 2 weeks and sell just one low risk item and move on to the next account and don't come back till the new month and than list too ur limits I find you get raises sometimes in that 2nd month and no mc999

A very true point - selling heavy on eB without the necessary capacity on PP can lead to doom-gloom for the pp account.

Holy Moly for real OP...
 

Logged on to my 4 mos. old acct. & went from 50/2500 to 250/12,500. Started at 10/1000. Somebody took a shot to the head. LOL

They really hit there head hard I went from 100/10,000 to 300/$30,000 my highest limit yet , and this account I sell mostly name branded items