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Selling Limits
 

Hi Guys so a little bit about my situation. I'm a long time stalker on the forms and I'm pretty knowledgeable on stealth but my accounts seem to get stuck at 100/5000. I've been able to run them without any issue. but they've been stuck there for months. Had these accounts for 7+ months. They raised it to 100/5000 at month 3 and then no increases.

I have been selling to the 100 item limit for the past 2 months and no increases still.

I am trying to figure out why the item limit will not increase? The item is essentially a cheap common $7 item listed in computers. I wasn't sure if just listing in 1 category would do that? Obviously since its a cheaper item, I hit the 100 items but only use $700 of the $5000 limit. My accounts don't get suspended, their limits just don't increase haha

This is getting bothersome and some help would be much appreciated.

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I have a lot of stealths and any that jump from 10/1000 to 100/5000 have not seen another increase since. I have other accts (newer accts) that don't jump to 100/5000. Instead they go from 10 to 30 to 90 to 270. So, I may be wrong, but, I am convinced that my 100/5000s won't see another natural increase. It's been over a year on some and every other month they are capped out.

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Only eBay knows.

Best thing to do is A - Carry on selling to the limits. B - Get more stealths going so you can sell more

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Welcome to the forums. JamesNorth101's advice is key OP - spread sales

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I think every1 now will get stuck at 100/5k limit.. Here's what you should do...

Make a backup account in case a disaster strikes...begin building the feedback on new account. Also withdraw the maximum amount from paypal and just leave enough for ebay fee, this way even if u get limited, ur money is not stuck in paypal.

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I have an account that is just 3 months old and already received 3 increases

I sell mostly all cheap items between $4-$10

Now when I received the increase I just listed close to my limits, meaning would have an item and list it BIN with a quantity of 10 or 20 items, and I do this with 12 different items until my limits are low

Now I didn't sell to my limit but listed to my limit

I only sold 78 items in 4 weeks on this account and received 2 increases from 100 to 220 to 500 items

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the way bjammin described it is exactly the same pattern i see with my accounts.

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Simply put there is no logic at all. My past account, also a top seller account went 100>250>400 then stayed like that for a year even though I sold to the limits month in month out.

Another 2 selling in parallel a few months ago, selling the same things in the same way have seen increases of 2400/14k and 650/5.5k in 3 months.

Spread sales, keep creating accounts and good luck.

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Thanks for the advice guys. One thing I was wondering about is this: does selling in different categories affect selling limits at all? Do you guys always list items in several categories?

I was just listing one cheap item in one category in an attempt to get the limits higher but I'm not sure if different categories helps.

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Selling limits are across all catagories.

You need to list items in the catagory they apply to or you risk them getting taken down

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I am curious if having a TRS account leads to having your limits increased faster than a non-TRS account? Having a TRS account in the past brought on extra stress for sure. I gave up on it and really didn't see much of a change in my sales reports. But if it helps increase faster it might be worth it!

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Never really noticed a difference myself.

Account can get away with a bit more (DSR, Feedback ect wise) but not ever notice it make much difference to my selling limits.

The US may differ :noidea:

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That is a very good idea, even if you only have a few items a month to start an account, listing high quantities to make it seem you're close to your limit might have an effect. Anyone else doing this and seen any patterns?

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All u need to do is go to a dollar store maybe buy a few items but what I did was snap pictures of there shelves, so I had an idea of what items they have large quantities of, I have 5 dollar stores within a 2 mile radius of me, so instead of wasting space for inventory I just keep the items at the store until needed

Some popular items I will buy 15-20 items each, but if I'm not sure, or something that sells slow, I keep at the store

Everytime they raise the limits I increase how many items for each bin listing until I'm close to running out and I get that message saying request higher limits

And so far I received 3 raises and my first sale was Aug 15

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For new stealth accounts, I am getting zero limits and its saying I have reached my limits when I have not sold anything.

Anyone know a way around this?
I have been making successful accounts up until now, where I am getting this problem.

Help please.

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This has been discussed in length over the last few weeks in several threads.
Check this one out:
http://www.aspkin.com/forums/subscri...nstop-now.html
I believe you need to be a subscribed member to view it though. Otherwise do your research since there are a few other threads discussing this new problem.

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My accounts are stuck at 10/1000. I only got 1 that auto increased to 30/3000. All 5 of my active accounts are down to 0 so they need to auto increase soon.

This is going to be stressful around Holidays as sales pick up. I don't have time to run 10 accounts at once just to be about to move items.

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so i created an account last week and there no limits anywhere on the selling page..so tonight i decided to sell a used book as auction and i didnt get any restriction after i listed...im good or what?

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Time will tell

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I live in NYC. Once I can I'm going to have a field day doing that method (Dmshark25). Thanks!!! Your know your stuff

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Agreed, that does sound like a great idea DM Shark, and a great way to do distance marketing using stock on pound shop shelves photographed in situ and only going and buying them when we get a sale!

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Sales are key but go in early

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Yes can imagine wandering around photographing most of the items on their shelves for no apparent reason could attract some concerned looks especially in pound stores that are not that busy so it's pretty obvious if someone is doing something out of the ordinary like this!!

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Way I read it, the goods are being held & Dmshark25 has paid for them.

:noidea:

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Yes, I would go in and purchase $100 of items that I know sell, but yes I'll actually just snap a couple quick pics of some items on the shelves that I'm not sure of yet, and rather than purchase inventory that won't sell I'll snap a couple pics so I can see the items and also get an idea of how much they have in the store

Don't get me wrong I'm not going up and down every isle taking panoramic pictures asking people to get out of the way of my shot

But a few quick pictures no one notices, and if they do , it's a dollar store no one really cares

Selling Limits
 

Hmmm, limits must auto increase on the 1st of the month. I logged in my accounts on Nov 1 and they all got selling limits reset. I'll see what happens next month, I'm guessing around Dec 1 I'll get another auto increase.

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I just received a couple increases on random dates one Oct18 and on another account oct24

And both increases came after I listed a bunch of BIN listings leaving me with just about 10-15 listings left