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EBAY selling limits - why they happen, how to lift, what to do
 

I have been experiencing some crazy stuff lately. I opened a forum last week regarding selling limits, which was recently deleted. I listed app. 70 items of an average of $39 in a 24hr period with an account 2 months old at 47 feedback. Prior to that point I was doing 40-50 new listings a day no problem. I received a selling limit notice to link my account to a verified paypal account to remove it.

I waited 3 days, and it allowed me to list 20 before I got the same message and had a temp hold placed on new listings.

Now 2 hours later, eBay allowed me to list one more. It seems so random. At first it made sense that I would be limited to 20 listings per 24 hours, but do they have some running ratio that you cannot exceed X number listings per X frequency of time? Like 1 per hour or something??

Its really strange....anyone with experience with this? I will be testing it to try and find some rhyme or reason. Will keep everyone posted.

That's interesting. EBay like Paypal starting to limit accounts based on its usage. The more you have going on the more they want to know about you. It just shows you how advance eBay's system is becoming.

That is no advancement, that is less of an advancement.. Any one with a website can limit you when there is activity, but can you truly weed through the real sellers and bad ones without limiting the good ones.. I think most people leave buyers hanging when ebay suspend their account because they have no way to contact and sort through thier buyers and customers.

We'll I mean eBay is having more rules and polices each day. I don't mean they're advancing in commerce, though they are. The more information eBay asks for the harder it is to stay anonymous and keep your accounts going. Having ⊗⊗⊗⊗ information all the way is very hard to look valid to eBay. Either way eBay is advancing their security and fraud system each day.

yeah, but I dont think I would all what ebay is doing security and fruad advancement..I find what they are doing is a waste of money and time..lol Because that system is flawed very bad..They need to quit hiring them Russians to do their security system...

I found a loophole to get around the selling limtis..

I agree, eBay is doing more harm then good with their new system, but who are we to change that? We can only work with it and with each other.

Thats very true Modee. it's a shame that we as honest sellers have to do all this.. Really I think Ebay just want like the top big powersellers to sell on ebay and that is it..

Please let post what you know regarding this issue. Thanks

EBAY selling limits - why they happen, how to lift, what to do
 

i sell shoes on ebay and they limit you to 15 pairs a week when your a new member...is there a way to ligt the limit some how????or does it ift auto...when you gain feedback or become a longer member..any one know how there syste, works...:confused:

I just accqwuired a bunch of time sensitive items that will only be a big seller for the next couple of weeks. They will probably be inexpensive (less than $5). I have about 50 of them. I would like to maybe put one up for 3 or 5 days to determine a BIN price and then list the remainder of them BIN, but I am thinking that well send up a huge red flag to a week old account with no transactions yet.

I found the limit lifted at 10 feedback.

ebay listing limit
 

I listed only 5 pairs of shoes and i got a limit put on, ball ache i also would like some info on what we do next may as well be suspended

does your limit slowly rise up to the amount of pair to list at 10 feedback... has anyone experienced this problem when selling

I sell 1 X brand named item and I can't sell anymore until I am verified with Paypal. Should I verify with them? I mean I could just create an account but not use it right???

If you are going to verify it why not use it?

Are you sure you mean verify with PP and not EB?

I disagree, I dont think they will never reduce their revenues . there just so damn rich.. They can make a million dollars over night just off bank interest

I dont think they will reduce their revenues either, but its profits the board members care about. Another example is intel making 36 billion in a year, but profits were only 6 billion to board members. years before that they made less revenue, but the same profits.

Nike shoe huh

wonder if he/she is the one that hacked my old account to sell their shoes...

seller limits..this might work
 

I only tried this 1 time...but it worked the first time I tried it. Ok ..I have a old account that was limited with seller restrictions u know that same ebay B.S but today I was making a new account...so I did the normal change i.p address, delete cookies ect. But after I made the account I went to my old account for some odd reason, and tried to see if my limit had been lifted, I still have zero feedback and its only been 3 days since it was limited...but for some odd reason they let me post items on the account. That makes me think that the seller limit is just like anything else it runs off your i.p address & cookies, but once u get rid of them and change the i.p address it lets u by pass it. Now I could be wrong but that's what happen to me today.

Just what do you mean by limited?
What were the circumstances surrounding the action?

It has been well over a year since I received any disciplinary action from EB so I am a little rusty on their policy. My latest infraction which landed me here was due to the old "associated" bugaboo.

Limits go by account, not IP or anything else. You'll have to give more information about this seller limit, because I don't understand why an account would be limited with 0 feedback (that'd be a suspension if anything).

Seller limits are usually for big/high volume sellers. So say you're selling $100k worth of goods a month and you've started getting an abnormal amount of feedback complaints. eBay can say alright, we're going to limit your account by 25% of your normal volume / month until you fix your feedback. So the next month you can only sell 75% of your normal amount, then the month after 50%, until 4 months have passed in which case you either get suspended or permanently banned from selling.

But I'm guessing you have a different type of restriction :)

ok let me explain more...when u list shoes on ebay such as nike, on my account they let me list like 12 pair then they give me this message that says ...to provide a safe trading place inside the ebay market your account has a limit place on it yada yada yada yada. Im sure everybody who sell shoes have seen this, and they don't let u list that certain item because of that limit.

Oooooooooooh I gotcha. It could just mean that they've limited the # of auctions of nike shoes you can list, or put a ceiling on the $ of listings you can put up.

They also usually ask you to provide proof of authenticity to have the limit removed...so provide that and list unrestricted! :)

the limits i had at one time were only restricted on a weekly basis, that means that i could only do like a dozen in a week of that type.

"Selling Limits" what's this?
 

I just had this message pop up when I tried to list an item:

I admit, I listed and sold about 40 items in the first 14 days of a new account. Will they automatically lift this limit after feedback starts coming in from people that receive their items? Or is the account perma-screwed? :o

By the way, I have about $95 in fees on my account from those sales. Is it possible it's limited until I pay that invoice? I don't want to pay the invoice and still have the account limited, of course :D

do a search , this topic has been discussed many many times

Yeah, I searched for it. I saw some people mentioning that a linked PayPal account will get them their limits lifted, though I have a PayPal account linked to it since the first day already.

Just wondering if I need to contact them or just wait a few days. I noticed some eBay users are receiving notices, similar to mine, asking them to contact T&S. But mine says nothing about that, so I'm assuming it's not so severe ...

it usually gets removed within a few days until feedback gets up..


and never never ever contact ebay for anything

Thanks. Yeah, I was afraid of contacting them. My phone number is real, but the rest is not. I sold about 25 items and got 2 positive feedbacks so far. Listed 4 more items today, then tried to list another 3 a few hours later and got that message. I sold stuff for $2000+ though, maybe that's why I got limited too. we'll see if they lift it. :rolleyes:

This happens to my accounts for using certian brand names. For instance. I can only have 12 auctions going with the word "Microsoft" in them. If I try to list the 13th concurrent auction, that same error message pops up. I can list "MS" and it's fine. Even if the only word in the title is Microsoft Ebay will stop me from listing it, if it's the 13th one. I've contacted Ebay about it (sorry Chris) and they said I have not been a seller long enough to lift the restriction. At the time I was at about 3 weeks since I opened the selling account. The Ebay account was over 30 days though. I'm going to wait about a week or two and contact them again about removing the limitation. I don't have a problem contacting Ebay. I'm just some normal seller with questions and expectations. The items I sell are not a big threat, nor high dollar. So my rules may differ from some.

pay the fees and everything will be back to normal.. the new accounts have strict controls.. my personal advice donot go mad listing items start slowly and pick up

You know they actually caught the dude and know who did it but never arrested him. I saw a special on it on the history channel. He is old as hell know and fly planes but it look just like his ass.

he paid his eBay fees :D

i guess i can afford to lose $90. that's what the fees are up to right now. it could be they limited me because of that.

i would recommend laying off a little with that account. their attention has been drawn to that account. probably because of the brand names i agree/

I just tried to list on the account again and it seems they only limited me from selling one specific item. Any other items I can list without problems. I did list this specific item a few days ago under my store as multiple items (10 pieces), so it's possible this counts as one listing each, 10 total and that's why I can't sell more? I'm wondering if I remove the store listings it will let me auction again...

try this:

list them at 7 day auction (or buy it now, just 7 days). do not list in the correct category, don't use the correct photos, description or title.

at the last 3 days edit the listings. change the title, photo and description. ie: if you are selling a handbag, list it as a backpack, don't even add a photo. then change it to "women's purse blah blah blah" change the photo and description. DO NOT CHANGE THE CATEGORY. most people search by title anyway. price it too high for a bid, you can change the opening bid later.

might work. i have SEEN this done before. all depends on how closely they are watching you.



store listings: as long as they are not on to you, you should be able to list as many as you want. try to auction them first then relist as store inventory, that should take those item numbers under the radar.

I might give that a try. On another update, they just allowed me to list one of the items. When I tried to list one more, again I got the seller limit message. I guess it's 1 per day for these now. All other items list without problems.

STOP MESSING WITH IT UNLESS YOU ARE READY TO RIGHT OFF THAT ACCOUNT. or try what i mentioned earlier. i think they might be on to you pretty tuff though, but as long as they let you list something it's not 100% yet