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Success Story! TRS again!
 

Just wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone for their help on this forum.

In mid July I got my Paypal limited which had a top rated seller ebay account (limit of 400) linked to it. I had a baby due in September and a second income netting me another 50% of my take home salary snatched from me. Needless to say I went few a fair few emotions!

I found this place and decided to try and salvage something but this time to do it properly.

I read the stealth guide, several times in fact asked lots of questions (sorry!) but only when I had 150% understood EVERYTHING I made some accounts along with buying a couple.

Well, it has been 3 months and my main account I use now has a limit of 2400/£6500 and just got Top rated seller status again. Another account is at 650/£3500 and is projected to get TRS next month. The amazing thing is that after losing 1 months trade, I am now in a far far better position than I have ever been since starting to use ebay a few years ago.

My wholehearted advice for anyone who is in a position similar to what I had is stay positive, BE PATIENT and the limits will increase naturally. Also know that the dream can stop at any time so always have fallback accounts!

Thanks Aspkin, all the moderators and everyone else, it really is a pleasure to be part of this.

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Gald to hear your have gotten back on eBay stronger than before.

Congrats :thumb:

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Congrats buddy! :thumb:

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Congratulations buddy best of luck for the future

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Great news, I always like to hear the success stories.

Too often anything ebay related is doom and gloom.

Congrats buddy!

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Congratulations. A lot of that here. Got a lot of help from some caring people. Just too bad we lost one of the greats to the dark side.

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Great JoB😃😃😃

If you follow good advice on this forum than, you find out that what felt like a tragedy was actually a blessing, because, you can actively grow your business going the stealth route

And you accomplished this in so little time , good for you, keep it up

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Congratulations! Job well done, it takes discipline to stealth.

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Awesome! Congrats to you it's always good to hear the success stories. :)

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Way to go.......proving again, stealth works when done properly!

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Congratulations! The things we can accomplish when backed into a corner!

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Great Job ! Proving gain

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Keep up the work Kiroshi :thumb:

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Congratulations to you!

I just now noticed my first only has also become TRS.

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Lol, small update... monthly limit just increased to £15k!

Was I just really really lucky here?

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Congrats on the new accounts and your baby!

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Congrats! It is nice to hear success stories! It does suck waiting for increases but it does loo like patience is key!

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what a great motivator

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Thanks for this post. Just motivated me :)

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I wonder how the account is running now 2 years on.

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Nice to here stories like this, I aim to be in the same positions in two/ three months. Thankyou for sharing your story. Keeps the motivation going especially once sale start to flood back in :)

Would be good to find out the status of these account 2/3/4 year on, hopefully Kiroshi will get back to us.

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Hey all. As per requests I will give you an update.

Ok so that first stealth account mentioned is standing at 2000+ 100% positive feedback, I have another, which is around 700 100% positive.

When it comes to limits, christ I dont even pay attention anymore as its FAR beyond my needs. I am talking around 16,000 items and around £100k a month? It may be more I dont actually know. Both these accounts started at a 100/£3500 limits.

with my second account I have since started a specific website as it has done so well.

I also have around 6 dormant accounts, 2 of which are used to sell things in small amounts, just to keep it active and slowly building feedback. I think they have around 150 feedback with limits increased to around 500 ish.

The thing to note the most is when I was using my real name account and trading from that, looking back I was clueless. This forum has taught me so much on not only how to run stealth, but how as a seller, we get SCREWED and its best 99% of the time to just let the customer win. After all, those bad marks on your account because you decided to argue back etc a month later... was it really worth it?

Dont give up and use this horrible unsettling experience as a way of you getting to know the ebay game like a pro. Let the increases build naturally and dont put everything into one account.