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Question regarding EINs and early stealth selling.
 

Greetings. I have a stealth account that is aged past 30 days and has limited history and I seek to sell starting at least 50 items per month with plans on increasing sells volume to 500+ a month in the future. I plan on sticking with low risk items the first month and then moving on to small quantities of higher risk items such as consumer electronics and phone cases mixed in with my low risk inventory afterwards.

I have a fresh EIN that I could use to verify the account should I need to and I have documentation and any other information that they may need ready to provide should they need it.

My question is this: with my specified business plan, would I run into any issues that I couldn't get out of simply by providing them information upon request? Would I be safe starting off selling 50 low risk items provided I take necessary precautions such as taking unique pictures of each item and making unique listing descriptions that couldn't be linked elsewhere?

I've seen at least a few people state that I should start out only with a few low risk items early on which I can understand if the account has low limits and is brand new and what not, but starting that small would potentially hurt my business in the short term.

Re: Question regarding EINs and early stealth selling.
 

"limited history" & "low risk items the first month and then moving on to small quantities of higher risk items such as consumer electronics and phone cases" & "starting that small would potentially hurt my business in the short term"

You're about to board the Suspension Express, and 500 sales a month in the time-frame you're talking about is pure fantasy.

A fresh EIN and "information" isn't going to keep you out of trouble with this 'plan'.

Put 20 to 30 hours into reading the forums over the next few days.

Pay special attention to posts by folks like jeffweico and JamesNorth101 and rsot, long term players with real knowledge.

Re: Question regarding EINs and early stealth selling.
 

yes 500 sales a month is something i would steer away from doing especially for a new account. IF you are planning on doing that much. I would recommend making more stealth accounts and spread sales out with those.

Re: Question regarding EINs and early stealth selling.
 

Suggest 25 first month 50 the next 100 and so on.....you are asking for trouble by painting a target on your back

Re: Question regarding EINs and early stealth selling.
 

My recommendation would be to spread sales out across several accounts. Eventually you will be able to sell more on each account as they become more established. Nobody can say for sure when you will need to provide documentation but running multiple accounts when doing stealth is never a bad idea- should something happen to one of your accounts you have back-ups to fall on and keep your business afloat.