Account limit halved!

[SaiJin]

I have an account that I used over the winter which has 320items / mo

And it went to below standard for Dec and went back up to above standard in January... they halved my item count to 160/mo as well as the dollar amount.

This is ridiculous. They drop item limits whenever an account goes below standard???

[JamesNorth101]

Not every time, but it does happen a lot.

Makes it even hearder to get the account back up above standard

[SaiJin]

It'll be above standard in 1 week...
Does the limit go back up with this or it stays 1/2? So damn frustrating

[JamesNorth101]

Tend to stay at the new lower limit (on UK accounts at least)

It can still raise again in the future though.

[SaiJin]

I noticed that my limits never increase in any of my accounts.

[GreenBean]

Once halved you are going to have to regain ebay trust and push for the limits to be increased again.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by SaiJin

I noticed that my limits never increase in any of my accounts.

I have had issues like this with few accounts that have been operating cleanly for several years...frustrating - I haven't bothered on hoping for the increase....simply get new accounts going

[SaiJin]

yea well going for new accounts starting at 10/mo is also furstrating

[jakobrockz]

I don't understand how people's accounts never get their limits raised! My account had a serious strike on it (Forgot what exact MC it was) but the only way I could contact eBay was through messaging a specific department. Even with all this, 3 months later that stealth account has 200/5000 limits and the 21 day hold on Paypal is gone. Maybe I'm just lucky.

[pokerpro]

Yes, you were lucky.......I have an 18 month old account that got a single neg from a guy about 20 feedbacks in...it has NEVER got a single increase...stuck at 10/1K......all of the other accounts I made at the same time are ALL at least at 100/5K.......that one neg really screwed me!

[Dmshark25]

Originally Posted by jakobrockz

I don't understand how people's accounts never get their limits raised! My account had a serious strike on it (Forgot what exact MC it was) but the only way I could contact eBay was through messaging a specific department. Even with all this, 3 months later that stealth account has 200/5000 limits and the 21 day hold on Paypal is gone. Maybe I'm just lucky.

When you make a lot of accounts you will see a randomness that is in there formula to increase limits.

I have had accounts with a negative and 6 positives and get increased automatically to 100/5000 after 3 months

Other accounts I have listed and sold one item and had 0 feedback and I get an email saying we have noticed how well u have been selling so you can now list even more and had an increase from 10/1000 to 100/10000

I been lucky and never had an account stuck at 10/1000 but you can see the randomness

[SaiJin]

There has got to be a way some how to operate without having to have 30-50 accounts...

[danshan]

There is strong and long stealths, the way to do it is 10 turns to 5, 5 turn to 2 and 2 turns to 1, only problem is as my limits grow what im selling does too so it goes backwards again. Hope that makes sense