Those of you with 5+ stealth accounts.

[mynameis]

Those of you with more than 5 eBay Stealth accounts. How many of those accounts have been upgraded to business accounts?

Currently mine are personal accounts, I'm not sure if i should attempt to upgrade them to business accounts.

Do share your experiences.

Why are you asking?

Whatever your need or preference is, just do that.

There is no huge difference

[a.v.limited]

mine are business

[JamesNorth101]

Depends what you want from the account.

If you want to get TRS, then you need to be business.

If you do not want that, then does not make a huge amount of difference. Personally I have most my 400+ feedback accounts with over 300 selling limits as business purely because I like the to get TSR and the 15% discount that comes with it.

[Callidus]

and if you are a business then you should be acting like one especially with the way eBay and PayPal run, bit strange running as personal if you're clearly a business...

[mynameis]

Originally Posted by just_smile

Why are you asking?

Whatever your need or preference is, just do that.

There is no huge difference

Its more to do with selling limits.

[mynameis]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

Depends what you want from the account.

If you want to get TRS, then you need to be business.

If you do not want that, then does not make a huge amount of difference. Personally I have most my 400+ feedback accounts with over 300 selling limits as business purely because I like the to get TSR and the 15% discount that comes with it.

Are business accounts under more scrutiny in general?

[JamesNorth101]

Originally Posted by mynameis

Its more to do with selling limits.

You do not get an automatic increase just because you swap to a business account. Limits will remain the same as a personal account.

[a.v.limited]

limits are raised in time, some people saying 4-5 months down the line

[Sandy D]

For some reason people think changing to a business gets you automatic raises.

It does NOT.

Your performance no matter business or personal gets you raises.

I have 100s of accounts up and running and half are business and half are not growing into a business account.

I get the same raises on both types of accounts based on how I operate my accounts.

Ex

Accounts made in June 2013

Personal 10-1000
Business 10-1000


Today

Personal 450-5000
Business 300-3000

Same type of items sold, within 10 feedback of each other and yet the personal account received much higher and quicker raises.

They will never be the same.

[GhostWhoWalks]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

Depends what you want from the account.

If you want to get TRS, then you need to be business.

If you do not want that, then does not make a huge amount of difference. Personally I have most my 400+ feedback accounts with over 300 selling limits as business purely because I like the to get TSR and the 15% discount that comes with it.

I got 4 TRS and none of them are business.

[a.v.limited]

well seems like its all luck of the drawer and when a bot decides to be kind to us

[JamesNorth101]

Originally Posted by GhostWhoWalks

I got 4 TRS and none of them are business.

Are they UK accounts?

[GhostWhoWalks]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

Are they UK accounts?

Nope, European account. I don't want to say what country.

[JamesNorth101]

The TSR rules differ from country to country. In the UK it needs to be a businesses account

[GhostWhoWalks]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

The TSR rules differ from country to country. In the UK it needs to be a businesses account

Every country has it's own perks.

But nice!

[rsot]

None of my CA, US, or UK accounts are business to date

[90210]

Originally Posted by GhostWhoWalks

I got 4 TRS and none of them are business.

Do your personal accounts typically get shut down after you reach the $20K in sales mark (due to not being able to provide an EIN in lieu of a SSN)--or do you find you are able to ask PP for alternate methods of verification?

[yotano211]

Originally Posted by 90210

Do your personal accounts typically get shut down after you reach the $20K in sales mark (due to not being able to provide an EIN in lieu of a SSN)--or do you find you are able to ask PP for alternate methods of verification?

The $20k/100 item rules only applies to the US. Other countries dont have EIN or SSN's. Each country in the world is different. US tax rules dont apply to other countries.

[GhostWhoWalks]

Originally Posted by 90210

Do your personal accounts typically get shut down after you reach the $20K in sales mark (due to not being able to provide an EIN in lieu of a SSN)--or do you find you are able to ask PP for alternate methods of verification?

LOLLLL



No! But it's funny you guys have that!

That's one of the perks I have I told GB last year!

[GhostWhoWalks]

Originally Posted by yotano211

The $20k/100 item rules only applies to the US. Other countries dont have EIN or SSN's. Each country in the world is different. US tax rules dont apply to other countries.

Yeah, GOD BLESS AMERICA! lollllll

Yeah we don't have that EIN, or SSN!

Thank god!

[rsot]

The beauty of having multiple accounts is that you AVOID hitting the max limits on accounts and being asked for ID (if you sell smartly)