Stealth Acct, Limit Increases & 21 Day Hold Lifted

[bjammin]

I wanted to post an account that has results as everyone should expect to have after there account reaches around 90 days old.

Early October I had created an account. It started off with 10/1000 limits. I started off selling a set of key chains (low risk, non Ver0 item). I put it up as an auction starting at $.99 with free shipping for 7 days. After it sold, I would offer second chance listings for 1 day. After that 1 day of 2nd chances was over, I would relist the same item. I continued to do this until I received my first limit increase (10/1000 to 30/3000). This happened towards the end of November. After that, I became more aggressive with my listings. I started maxing out my 30 items with multiple auctions and multiple BIN (Buy It Now). Less than 30 days later I received another increase to 60/6000. Again this was selling low risk items.

The account is now about 3 months and 1 week old and it is now not restricted by the 21 day hold on funds. The account has sold roughly 35 items since its creation and has 16 positive feedback (100%). I have made sure to ship out ASAP with tracking uploaded and all the little things EB wants its sellers to do to make the buyers feel like gods.

My point behind all this is just so ppl new to stealth can see what they should expect. Now that this account is freed up, I will start to sell other stuff that I would not have sold before. Most accounts that I handle like this one sees limits like this or better. It just takes patience and persistence.

[trosky]

I follow the same pattern, have around 10 from November and most were increased on December to 30/3000, now 2 of those to 90/9000, all will hit the 90 days end of this month beginning of next with good feedback and no holds hopefully. From there they can be pushed a little more and hopefully last a long time

[RosieTosie]

Originally Posted by bjammin

I wanted to post an account that has results as everyone should expect to have after there account reaches around 90 days old.

Early October I had created an account. It started off with 10/1000 limits. I started off selling a set of key chains (low risk, non Ver0 item). I put it up as an auction starting at $.99 with free shipping for 7 days. After it sold, I would offer second chance listings for 1 day. After that 1 day of 2nd chances was over, I would relist the same item. I continued to do this until I received my first limit increase (10/1000 to 30/3000). This happened towards the end of November. After that, I became more aggressive with my listings. I started maxing out my 30 items with multiple auctions and multiple BIN (Buy It Now). Less than 30 days later I received another increase to 60/6000. Again this was selling low risk items.

The account is now about 3 months and 1 week old and it is now not restricted by the 21 day hold on funds. The account has sold roughly 35 items since its creation and has 16 positive feedback (100%). I have made sure to ship out ASAP with tracking uploaded and all the little things EB wants its sellers to do to make the buyers feel like gods.

My point behind all this is just so ppl new to stealth can see what they should expect. Now that this account is freed up, I will start to sell other stuff that I would not have sold before. Most accounts that I handle like this one sees limits like this or better. It just takes patience and persistence.

Useful info bjammin, for all of us, what do you mean by 'keychains', and did you literally just sell these or did you vary your ilistings with similarly priced items, interested to see if we have any similar items over here, if something is popular enough to keep selling then there will be no reason to stop selling it until the buyers have had enough and no one buys it anymore, you mentioned you sent them by tracked postage as well, it is expensive over here to send cheap items by tracked mail, listings would need to have a certain value for us not to lose out every time we posted the item.

[trosky]

In here you can send lightweight items under 3 ounces for $1.93 with tracking number

[RosieTosie]

Originally Posted by trosky

In here you can send lightweight items under 3 ounces for $1.93 with tracking number

Yes that is a big big difference to what is available to us over here in UK for tracked postage, so these keychains that bjammin mentioned are really lightweight items then are they?

[wtfebay]

Its strange that you mention the holds. On 2 of my accounts right now, they had holds. Even ebay has the disclaimer at the bottom of the page when creating a listing that says Paypal will hold the funds blah blah. But just a few days ago when i have been getting payments for items, the money shows up right away. Not sure if its a fluke or certain payment type that buyers are using or what. Accounts have only been sold on for 3 weeks.

[danshan]

Good job bjammin quality consistent work gets great results keep it up!

[bjammin]

Originally Posted by RosieTosie

Useful info bjammin, for all of us, what do you mean by 'keychains', and did you literally just sell these or did you vary your ilistings with similarly priced items, interested to see if we have any similar items over here, if something is popular enough to keep selling then there will be no reason to stop selling it until the buyers have had enough and no one buys it anymore, you mentioned you sent them by tracked postage as well, it is expensive over here to send cheap items by tracked mail, listings would need to have a certain value for us not to lose out every time we posted the item.

Keychains / Key Chains / Key Rings
An example may be a Chicago Bulls Keychain, and 4 other NBA teams to sell along with it. I can understand what you mean about expensive shipping being a problem. But for me I can sell a keychain for $5 or $6 and pay $1.92 for 3oz through USPS. Of course you gotta do what makes the best sense to you.

I do not like taking a loss for feedback, but I do not have to make a killing either. My killings come later after I have a trusted account with some time and experience under the belt.

[bjammin]

Originally Posted by wtfebay

Its strange that you mention the holds. On 2 of my accounts right now, they had holds. Even ebay has the disclaimer at the bottom of the page when creating a listing that says Paypal will hold the funds blah blah. But just a few days ago when i have been getting payments for items, the money shows up right away. Not sure if its a fluke or certain payment type that buyers are using or what. Accounts have only been sold on for 3 weeks.

I know ppl will differ with me on this, but I think it depends on how long it has been a seller acct, not how long you have been selling. But, it does seem like $250 is the magic dollar amount and 90 days (as a seller acct, not when you started selling) seems like the magic amount of time. Some also mention feedback or number of sales. I do not know if that is a factor but this account has 16 FB and 34 sales,if anyone was interested.

[Dmshark25]

Originally Posted by wtfebay

Its strange that you mention the holds. On 2 of my accounts right now, they had holds. Even ebay has the disclaimer at the bottom of the page when creating a listing that says Paypal will hold the funds blah blah. But just a few days ago when i have been getting payments for items, the money shows up right away. Not sure if its a fluke or certain payment type that buyers are using or what. Accounts have only been sold on for 3 weeks.

Strange, I rotate accounts and sell usually on 4 at a time, and all 4 of the accounts are 5 months old however on all 4 I sold the first item 3-4 weeks ago, and the last 3 days all the Payments have been coming In as Instant

I thought it was just random at first , I know once in a while payments do just come thru without a hold but from Thursday thru all day today every payment has been instant

And the items are anywhere from $5 to $300 , And the Feedbacks for each account only are 4 - 20 positives

Anyone else having same situation the last few days, these are all US accounts

[trosky]

I can also confirm that 4 of my accounts with sales after Thursday has no longer holds on them. All of them under 90 days old, even one of them the first sale was Jan 13th and no holds now. It can't be coincidence, something new?

[wtfebay]

Originally Posted by Dmshark25

Strange, I rotate accounts and sell usually on 4 at a time, and all 4 of the accounts are 5 months old however on all 4 I sold the first item 3-4 weeks ago, and the last 3 days all the Payments have been coming In as Instant

I thought it was just random at first , I know once in a while payments do just come thru without a hold but from Thursday thru all day today every payment has been instant

And the items are anywhere from $5 to $300 , And the Feedbacks for each account only are 4 - 20 positives

Anyone else having same situation the last few days, these are all US accounts

Yes, since the 15th ALL of my payments on ALL of my accounts have been instant. I have a 5/500 account was just created, listed an item and received instant payment. That account is new, never been sold on until then.

My other accounts are about 3 weeks old and had a sellers account created and selling on for nearly the same time. Holds have been in effect....until the 15th. Very strange.

[Dmshark25]

Could be a glitch in their system than, I still get the message about holds when I lost the item in eBay but still today all sales are coming thru instant

Or it could just be something new they are trying , maybe they been under a lot of scrutiny with holding funds whether it be holds or limitations and they are trying to fix their image a little

Lot of Members have also reporting more 45 day hold on funds on limited US accounts rather than the strict 180 day hold

[wtfebay]

Originally Posted by Dmshark25

Could be a glitch in their system than, I still get the message about holds when I lost the item in eBay but still today all sales are coming thru instant

Or it could just be something new they are trying , maybe they been under a lot of scrutiny with holding funds whether it be holds or limitations and they are trying to fix their image a little

Lot of Members have also reporting more 45 day hold on funds on limited US accounts rather than the strict 180 day hold

Could be......but it could also have to do with the ebay/paypal split that is coming up. I have not seen an official date as to when it will happen, other than " by mid-2015". Maybe things are changing now.

[solefoodbk]

Originally Posted by bjammin

I know ppl will differ with me on this, but I think it depends on how long it has been a seller acct, not how long you have been selling. But, it does seem like $250 is the magic dollar amount and 90 days (as a seller acct, not when you started selling) seems like the magic amount of time. Some also mention feedback or number of sales. I do not know if that is a factor but this account has 16 FB and 34 sales,if anyone was interested.

In the terms & agreements on ebay it states after 90 days of your first sale (not when the account was opened) 250$ in sales, and 25 sales then the holds get removed.

Obviously your account has to be squeaky clean without any issues.

If you don't have it removed something is up with your account..

[wtfebay]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

In the terms & agreements on ebay it states after 90 days of your first sale (not when the account was opened) 250$ in sales, and 25 sales then the holds get removed.

Obviously your account has to be squeaky clean without any issues.

If you don't have it removed something is up with your account..

Sure it states that, but as I and several others have mentioned...payments are going through instantly as of the 15th. Brand new accounts with limited selling history.

[pokerpro]

Are these ebay payments, or payments from someplace else?

[trosky]

ebay payments

[pokerpro]

Wow.....I've never had a single account of mine had holds removed before the 25/250/90 rules.

[solefoodbk]

Originally Posted by wtfebay

Sure it states that, but as I and several others have mentioned...payments are going through instantly as of the 15th. Brand new accounts with limited selling history.

Some people get 1000/50000 limits on a brand new account, same thing.

Ebay is very quirky when it comes to these things BUT you should expect it to be removed after the 25/250/90 days..

You should never "expect" a 1000/50000 limit account when creating one, unless you have a method of doing so. I don't think you should "expect" the hold to be lifted unless you know a method of getting them removed sooner.

The holds aren't even a bad thing. It helps age the account properly. You may have the holds removed but if you start withdrawing funds to quickly everything may seem okay but paypal might be watching your account like a hawk because of it.

[Dmshark25]

Originally Posted by pokerpro

Wow.....I've never had a single account of mine had holds removed before the 25/250/90 rules.

Yea this is the first time for me as well, I always needed to wait 90 days, the other factors never mattered and it's with 4 different accounts all around a month old, it seems other members are experience the same, so maybe something new from PayPal

And I have listed low risk $5 items to high risk $300 and all have been coming thru instant , and it started this past Thursday , and every new listing I put up it still has the message about paypal holds

Maybe they are not going to place holds on every account, all eBay transactions also

[wtfebay]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

Some people get 1000/50000 limits on a brand new account, same thing.

Ebay is very quirky when it comes to these things BUT you should expect it to be removed after the 25/250/90 days..

You should never "expect" a 1000/50000 limit account when creating one, unless you have a method of doing so. I don't think you should "expect" the hold to be lifted unless you know a method of getting them removed sooner.

The holds aren't even a bad thing. It helps age the account properly. You may have the holds removed but if you start withdrawing funds to quickly everything may seem okay but paypal might be watching your account like a hawk because of it.

I think you are misinterpreting what I said. I did not and am not expecting the holds to be removed before the typical 90 day ordeal. Ebay still shows the message that funds will be held while a selling history is being established when creating listings. That's fine, and let me clarify that ALL of my transactions have had funds held up until the 15th. And seeing as I am not the only one this has happened to, we are trying to figure out why this has happened.