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Starting up big?
 

My PayPal account got frozen with over $50,000 in it. Before the closure, PayPal imposed a 30% rolling reserve - hence the 50K. As a result,

I need to get started up again, but my issue is with having to start small! I had 20K items listed on my main account (registered as a LTD company in the UK) with sales of nearly $200K/Month. It's really nerve-racking seeing that with a new account you have to start out listing a couple items and ever so slowly... increasing it...

I'd love for some advice if possible for those of us with a huge volume of product to shift.

Many Thanks!

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If you try to start out AGAIN big....your going to fail. If you want to start again and succeed long-term you will need to start out slow, it doesn't matter if you sold $1Billion a month before....that's the past, move forward.

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What category are you selling in?

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Same! I'm assuming you are planning to buy account, a follow up question I have - are those recommendations there because those who sell high risk items/VeRO items?

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Those recommendations are there for everyone......people forget that they are starting over, people usually want to pick up where they left off.....can't do it. There have been a few members on this forum debating us for months....only to realize that we were right.

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Thanks man. I really want to make sure it never happens again. It's incredibly painful going from making X amount to basically zero, and for it to be that way until things are back up and running again the way they were. I guess that could take upwards of a year.

Has anybody any dealings with Top Rated Accounts For Sale I'm thinking about buying an older active account. Am I mad? :rolleyes:

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Just buy 40 or so of the 1000/10,000 accounts, I'd do £500 on each first month, £2000+ after that. Depends what it is you're selling though

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OP may know ebay.......but now he needs to learn stealth and learn it well. Buying 40 accounts off the bat is going to be no good to him as he won't last 5 minutes with them if he goes in unprepared.

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You're right about that. 40's a bit much to start out with. Lets try a couple accounts first and grow it from there.

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Lesson learned never keep that much money in paypal

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Start up small and work your way up 5-10 accounts with sales spread out should get you some big mula..

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As I said, the funds were locked due to a rolling reserve which couldn't be withdrawn. After it built up, paypal decided to lock the account for 6 months. Nothing you can do about that.

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Realdeals and empirestate are spot on.

40 accounts will be a nightmare for someone even more so if he isn't deep into stealth. That is an overkill for a start.


Assuming you ship several items daily, you'd be wasting a lot of time running 40 accounts with windows/user so you'd need vmware or virtualbox with at least 4GB for each instance. That's a new computer and massive RAM.

Dongles won't work in this instance so VPN will be a viable option, I assume. Be prepared for downtime if you use one provider. Mine has been down four times in 15 days even today. Two reputable dedicated servers (one as backup) with massive IP ranges and dedicated IPs would do well to mitigate downtime.

Differing your listings to avoid being caught on 40 accounts is a whole new chapter.

There are exemplary people on here who do this to near-perfection but they have good knowledge of stealth and years of experience.

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For that amount of activity, spreading sales is a great bet

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You risk getting suspended again with such high sales (especially in early days).