Monitoring The Account Aging Process

[Payelectronica]

How often should I log into accounts that I create that are just sitting with no plans of activity? Mainly talking newly created accounts eBay & PayPal both. Also, how do you handle your monitoring of "aged" accounts? Are 5/500 accounts treated different than a 1000/25,000 accounts during and after the process.

I guess what I'm asking is, how do you keep an eye on all of it?

[phaz0rz]

Why would you have accounts just sitting with no activity? They don't start "aging" until you start making sales.

What I do personally is something like this:
Buy or create account and list a low risk item
Wait for the first sale to complete, then slowly start listing more stuff
After 100 sales or so I determine if I'm going to attach a tax ID
If I think an account is worth it, I get an EIN and upgrade

For the accounts I never attach an EIN to, I log in at least once per month to eliminate any risk of Ebay closing the account for inactivity.

I don't let any new accounts just sit with no sales though. What's the point?

[MM78]

Every Account you make, you should have at least 1-5 sales to start.

[Payelectronica]

Thanks for the information. Already have a several accounts I'm selling on. These are back ups that's why I have no real plan to sell. Just wanted to get a feel for how to handle ithem correctly.