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I thought limit increases were reviewed monthly?
 

I'm not saying it a bad thing, far from it, but I have been getting some insane limit increases over the last few weeks.

One has gone from 100>150>300>600>1200 in a 6 week period. Other accounts have had similar success.

Are ebay on crack or what?

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Look after the accounts.

Increases can take months and months, others can come in days.

Little logic to what eBay does.

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Don't question it, just embrace it. Feel the love ebay is giving you.

But never forget with ebay, the right hand giveth, the left hand taketh.

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From 100 to 1200 is great for 6 weeks! Reason to celebrate!

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Was this a personal or business account?

Also how was your selling activity like?

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Yeah I thought as much logic wise! Ive had another go 100 > 190 > 300 > 570 in the same time. Embrace it absolutely, I just wondered what the hell is going on lol. Yet on the other hand I had a TRS account with 100% feedback at 800+ feedback and where do my limits get to on that? 400!!

Play, to answer they were both business accounts using standard good stealth practice where I took it very easy after 90+ days selling household goods. Built up from there but only listed to 50% of my limit capacity at all times.

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Thats great! Keep it up.

Anyone here had their personal account(s) bumped up automatically? If so how long did it take?

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Had personals go from 25 -> 80 / £2300 after listing 1 item with no feedback.

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Has anyone had personal accounts exceed the 100 listings mark automatically?

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I am pretty sure you have already asked this on another thread and lots of people answered yes...

I have had personal accounts go well over 1000 items

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Ok thanks.

Do you know any difference between Personal and Business other than having to accept returns?

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Fees are different

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If fees are less with business accounts, thus profits are greater, why stick to personal?

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Because you then have to accept returns.

Besides, fees are not always less with business.

Another advantage of a business is being able to get TRS status.

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Yes just spotted that fact, TRS is just for business.

But I mean the number of returns you end up with a negligible, well for me that is. I hardly get any, and if they ask, I offer a partial reimbursement and tell them keep it, if their adamant to return it, I would then say ok go ahead... but hardly ever happens.

Fees do vary depending on category, some categories business is better than personal and vice versa.

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2 of my accounts have went from 10 items to 20 in less then a week of selling maybe its a time of the year thing with them who even knows just keep the raises oh coming.

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The general trend I have seen for personal accounts is 10 > 25 > 75 (sometimes) > 100

Usually can get to 100 in a fortnight.

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Quick question: Did they automatically increase or did you call in (as your a business user and request to increase allowances would tell you to call them)?

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They are smoking something... LMAO

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Do the limits increase automatically? I have some new accounts in good standing and I'm not getting the increases. What should I do.

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Keep selling to the limits, they will eventually get raised. Occasionally you will get the account that takes forever/never gets raised. Other times you get accounts that double every few weeks. I think the good and bad even each other out

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Well this is where its silly. I sat on a top rated seller account for the best part of a year hitting my 400 limit and 100% with no increases. I call up to get an increase and was manually linked 2 weeks later following that call from previous lack of stealth knowledge.

These accounts were all automatic. One I have sold a total of approx 60 items and they have increased it to 400+ in 6 weeks aged 4 months. The other is aged longer but has only been active for the same time and got to 1200 in the same time.

As others have said, I have fully concluded that ebay is ran by wild monkeys who determine limit increases by throwing their own feces and semen at a wall of numbers and names.

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This is the crazy thing though, I didnt even sell close to them on a few occasions.

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The same thing happened at this time last year. I believe it is to do with getting the "listing numbers" at the right level for the Christmas shopping season.

Put it like this, if the volume of listings are less than last year, how can ebay expect to make more money?

We have read many stories of people having selling limits reduced due to the new defect system. Ebay are not cutting the number of listings on their site. They are just redistributing them.

Do a half decent job (or better) at the moment and they are handing out limit increases like confetti.

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I have two accounts running from around the same time, selling similar items.

1st account, doing better than 2nd in sales, feedback etc, only goes up once a month, 2nd account with lower sales, lower feedback went up four times in a month.

Maybe its the eBay curse - 'fill your garage with more stock cause we are bumping your limits, but tomorrow we will take your accounts away and then you will be screwed mwahaha! ' :)

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I had 3 personal accounts that went like this -
10>30>60>120 (2 accounts)
10>50>100>150>230

And like you said, 1 account top rated, went 10>30 and that's it.
Old as the other accounts.

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Thanks for that @kiroshi - I was also once manually linked when I called in to ask for increases (this was a long time before I even got hands on stealth and was one of those genuine accounts). What bugged me was, if you knew my previous account was suspended why not automatically suspend this and send an MC999 my way? - but no, they decided to wait for me to call...

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That is why everyone here advises not to ring in for increases.

It means a manual review of your account. And nothing good ever comes of that. Better to stay under the radar and take increases as they come.

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Need increases? Also consider making more accounts and spreading sales

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Funny enough, that happened on my genuine account which means I will never call in again...as for stealth accounts I call in ALL the time and get increases ALL the time (every 30 days that is) - so long as I used at least HALF of the allowance. Put in a few sweet words and they increase it even more. Even though this has worked for me, might not work for everyone.

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"What should I do?".........NOTHING!.......Stealth done properly requires patience..I have some accounts that have got to 100/5K in weeks...I have another one that is 16 months old and still at 10/1K.

Like hundreds of people have said here, hundreds of times before me...if you need more sales, create more accounts...spread your sales account....you know that old saying about all the eggs in one basket? I think they created that expression with ebay in mind....

I thought limit increases were reviewed monthly?
 

None of my accounts so far have gotten an automatic increase, but they did automatically reset back to 10 so that helped a bit. I think I just need to sell faster. I'm going to list all 10 items tonight.

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LMAO this is getting crazy.

Just had my 1200 account increased to 2400! Am I being lured?

I feel like im ebays equivalent to one of the guys on 'To Catch a Predator'

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I get limits raised pretty quickly (under 90 days) to 100/5K.,,..then they seem to just stick at that. 1 or 2 go higher, but most seem to plateau at 5K. I spread sales over lots of accounts, so I don't care if I ever get higher than that on any one account.

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Its sensible, keeps you well under the radar. I dont intend to sell to even half these limits on this account to be fair.

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Why? You may never get increases easily.

:uk:

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You should sell to your limits to try and spark automatic increases

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You might have missed my post ubove a little which states I now have a 2400pm limit on an account. I cant see myself selling that many items any time soon i mean!

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My first post is incorrect. I have received auto increases on my account.

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In my experience with ebay now over the last couple years, and this has been all day every day, with increases, there's always a random factor involved.

I had many accounts that were less than 2'months old and received an email saying we have noticed how well you have been selling and now why wait list more and Id get an increase from 10 to 100'items

And the funny thing it would be before I even made a sale or had any feedback

So based on a large group of accounts there is no set formula of time of month, amount of sales, and feedback that equates into a increase, there's just nothing concrete like that

Also you mentioned you would never sell that many items in a month,,now also in my experience sales and amount of listings that are up give the same effect

Just the other day I had a fairly new account 6 weeks old, 3 Feedbacks at the time, now I started with 100 item limit

But I went to the dollar store purchased like 100 items, stayed up all night to list everything and when I was about finished, my limits were almost gone, now they were gone not because I sold but listed,

So I took a nap, just 3 hours later there was an email when I woke that now you can list more and my limits went from 100 to 220 on a 6 week new account with not much activity or feedback, until I listed everything that one night and received a limit increase

So u can get raises for so many factors at any time during the month, and like I said listing an item seems to have the same effect of pushing your accounts to the limits

And there is a good post by GhostWhoWalks about the dollar store , if u have one near you it can be a great tool in prepping accounts and allowing them to grow, find out what sells which is very easy and you don't need to buy the whole store, I take pictures sometimes of the racks , just so I know they have 400 of a certain flashlight that sells or cheese grater , etccc

So when you list, you can list 30 items even if u purchased say 6, just keep,an eye on the store and how fast the item sells so u can go by more

The point being you can list certain items in quantity from the dollar store without actually having everything, that is if you have several dollar stores in a small radius of you, where u can easily restock inventory, just list to your limits, and with generics you will see the raises