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upgrading to a business account
 

Hello. I have come to that selling allowances that I can no longer request higher selling allowances unless I upgrade to a business account.
The thing is, I have not registered my business activity anywhere, so the question is - will they upgrade my account to a business one if I do not have any documents that proof that my business is legal? Will it be enough just my ID and proof of address?

By the way, account is registered in .co.uk

Thank you for your advice!

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

If you are just talking about ebay, then the answer is no, they don't require any documents.

You literally just click a button and your account changes. That's all there is to it.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Just upgrade it through eBay.

They wont ask for paperwork.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Thank you!!!

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

What country is the paypal attached to this account?

:spy:

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Also, if you are just stuck with same selling limits you could perhaps try to sell to the limits and see if they are going to bump it for you?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

I upgraded to business account easily and everything seemed okay.

Today I wanted to increase the quantity of one of my items and suddenly it says that my fees so far (for revising the listing) is 0.35 pound sterling (insertion fee)
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But I still have 18 FREE listings this months
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So, why do they still charge me?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

You should ask them...perhaps a glitch on their part

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

ebay have so many glitches.

Get on to them STAT.

:comp5:

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

so you agree that it should not be like this? so it's some kind of a bug?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

I called them and I found out that promotional offer of 20 FREE listings per month is only applicable to private sellers...
That's kinda ridiculous, because of that it's beneficial to stay as a private seller and not to upgrade to a business one.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Yes they do have glitches at times, once I was able to list products as much as I want though my limit was just 200. That was only for a day.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Each seller status has its perks :( sadly the nature of eB not to be ultra-clear...

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

What a con for you.

Typical ebay.

:tears:

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

is there anyway to downgrade the account back to private one?
And ofc, to have the same limits.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

any suggestions?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Downgrade? Never tried that - why not build new accounts?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

I am not that big seller that I would need many stealth accounts, I am fine with my main one. :)

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I had the same problem. I didn't understand why they charge even for revising an item. I wanted to downgrade. I called in. The rep kept me waiting for about 15 minutes. In the end he said a downgrade is possible but further investigation needed. It might take a few days for us to investigate your account. When it's done we will let you know.
It's been more than a month no one called me or emailed me back. I subscribed to a shop plan. It is like a personal account. You get free listings.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Yes, but you have to pay for a shop then... ;/
I am not that big seller so it would be beneficial for me to have a business account or even a shop subscription.

When I called them, I was told exactly the same - there will be an investigation of your account and we will let you know. It's been 5 days already - no answer from them, so I will call them again today.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Check your account status, just incase it's already done


I downgraded an account from business to personal, and the change was done without me knowing. They didn't send me any notification saying it was done.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

how long did it take for them to do that?

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We had a downgrade done within 48 hours on ebay UK.

That was middle of last year.

:comp5:

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Im not sure, probably within 48 hours.

I only noticed by chance. I was still waiting for an email from them.

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That's fine - still always worthy not to rely on JUST one account regardless of sales.

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I gave them a call again, they said they would escalate it to higer-ups so they could review the account (or do similar kind of ****) and they will call me back within 7 days.

What are the chances they will leave me with business account?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

I personally would not want this kind of attention on my account.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

why is that? I know that it may cause some problems, but is not it stupid to be afraid to call them and ask for assistance?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

How does things work with when you upgrade to business it asks do you want to make a separate business account or just upgrade your current. If you create separately does that mean the transaction history and everything just goes back to 0 and has limitation or is it linked still with the main?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

when you make a business account out of a private, you just upgrade your current private account to a business one.

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

So sorry , just being clear you would only have 1 PP account and it would be a business account after upgrade?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

you have to upgrade PP account separately

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they called me and said that they had been unable to downgrade the account

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

Can I make the same listing to .co.uk and .com ?

Re: upgrading to a business account
 

So, is not it prohibited to list exactly the same listing on ebay.co.uk and ebay.com ?