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Can Buying cheap ebooks for feedback can get you suspended?
i bought 7 ebooks for a very low price for pos feedback, in about 2 days.
and i started selling 2 items ? the first one i put 2 days ago and every thing was fine, today i decided to put another one , and after 2 hours i got suspended,
can you tell me a tip for next time on how to open account without instant suspention?
THX:redface:

Suspended as a buyer, nope. As a seller guaranteed, unless you post in the classifieds. My guess is you did something wrong is the registration/stealth process, but you arent giving much information, so it is pretty hard to help you out.

Yea I need more information

THats A #1 NO NO NO NO...never rather used things

Huge mistake.

Why are people so crazy about getting fb?

I have not lost an account in a long, long time and never have the need to get fb.

I will get my fb the old fashioned way by selling items and shipping quick.


Please enlighten me on why are so many people wanting to build fb so quick?

Fully agree!

Quick shipping is really important aswell i think - I love it when customers give me FB asap due to fast shipping alone.

It's not a good idea buying cheap FB at all - E/B ain't completely stupid they will see it if they review your account.

£/$0.99 items that are useful may fly once in a while, but don't go crazy buying tons.

here is more information about what i did :
early this week , i bought a pre paid visa card, then i registered on paypal and ebay , everything went as it should be , i invented a good name and gave a legit street adress from a town i know,after i opend the ebay account , i bought 2 ebooks for feedback , and then i set up immidiately 3 listings , 1 for 100$ , second one fro 85$ , and third one for 100$ also, 5 min past by i got a suspention message.
then a day after that, i bought another prepaid card,
set up new accounts once again and pretty much did the same thing , buying cheap ebooks, but i tried to sell only 2 things, one for 100$ and the other for 85 $ , and later on another suspention message came to me and i was very angry at that,
Please let me learn some more on how to do it the right way this time .
THanks

One reason for feedback on a new account would be to use 24 hour auction..Got to have 10fbs

Hello,

It seems you are rushing the whole stealth process, good you have a name/adresss setup and ready to go.

Don't buy the feedback on a brand new account like that.

And same goes for listing, it seems your listing items too fast, i think you just need to slow things down.

Heres an example of what you could do:

Once the account is setup

1.List an item of Day 3 of the new account, maybe list a used items in your house which you don't need.

2.Day 7 list a new item - but not a high risk like a iphone :nono:

3. Day 10 list 2 new items again not a high risk item.

4. Second month of your account you maybe able to try listing a higher risk item if you want.


Keep it slow, act new my friend :thumb:

Don't try buy cheap ebooks for easy feedback maybe later on but never that early :rip:

Getting to be old news this thread - if you need to buy low end crap, sparse it out. Don`t look mechanical to eB - look as if you are a true user enjoying the system.

Understand Stealth and move accordingly.

Thankful your post is good but be wary =)

Thank you very much

Totally agree - good post Sandy - as always

Yeah the amount of threads I have seen on this forum regarding "getting quick feedback" beggars belief. Just sell some cheap items you have lying around the house, you will have feedback in a few days

As a buyer a bought over 50 e-Books and wallpapers to build feedbacks and nothing went wrong, I guess some people are lucky, whilst others get a ban hammer.

You are a buyer you can buy whatever you want. but if you were to buy 50 ebooks in a few days and try to sell on that account that i a whole different story.

good info in here. I have been using penny/free ship auctions to build up about 10 feedback first before selling anything... but I was also going to wait 30 days to sell.

so people in here are selling on new accounts on the 3rd day it was opened? without buying ANYTHING? nice. this will change my strategy.

i have 10 stealth accounts brewing... two of which have 100 item/5k selling limits :)

Why are you buying stuff to build feedback?, should you be selling?

Maybe so that potential buyers will assume that he's legit, not sure though.

I sell on accounts as soon as i open them, some without even attaching a paypal.

cmbhuy - what kind of problems have you had with eb while doing this? Not even a verified pp?

that seems pretty reckless. lol. is it working for you? can you explain the usual sequence of events that follow? limits raised at 30 days? 90? unlimited by 180?

??

eBay lets you make your first sale without even creating a paypal, you can create the paypal after your received your first transaction, you can list your first non risky item just by choosing to pay your fees with a credit card.
Most of the time i create paypals before i sell on the account, but the days where i feel like making multiple accounts i just sell right when i create the account and then after the sell is done, I create the Paypal to receive the money wait a few days for the money to clear after you shipped your item than continue listing but not too much.

I don't think it is reckless at all? As long as your item isn't a risky item, ebay will not give you no problem on your first sale.
Limits seem to raise after 90 days because that's usually the grace period and i start all my accounts pretty slow regardless of how it was created, i don't hit the limits every month on new accounts. But after 90 days in my experience, you can push your accounts a little bit more and your limits should double every month after that.

@rsot it might be because i have us accounts and it might be different for Canada they might be looked at more strictly.

Really cmbhuy? You have seen your limits go up? I have a friend who also sells on ebay who does not push the limits either but so far the limits stay the same.....and no they are not high risk items. I have only a couple accounts so far and none of them have a change in the limits either. I'm not trying to question what has happened on your accounts but I am wonderingwhat we can do to get the same results. :ranger:

I set up two eB accounts (with verified PP accounts) last fall (one in August and one in September) and after waiting about two weeks on each account I listed two articles of clothing and within 24 hours the items were removed by eB. I called eB and could not answer the questions and they requested documents to be faxed to them. Because I wasn't sure how to create the documents they requested I gave up. I hate that I burned two bank accounts with these two eB/PP accounts. I have purchased the stealth guide and have four eB/verified PP accounts "peculating" and will start with one account and list a non-name brand household item at a low price (under $5.00 with reasonable shipping) and see what happens. Here's hoping I don't lose these accounts!

yep done the same things years ago, they got me right away :(

So conclusion is for buyer account, buying ebooks is fine right?

i wouldn't think they would ban you for buying stuff (though i'm sure someone is going to come along in a minute and say "you're wrong. they ban buyer accounts if they catch you buying stuff").

on my last 3 or 4 accounts i used to set up, get the seller account, link to PP then buy a load of cheap tat (ebooks, batteries, single blank cds) to get the feedback up to 10 so i could ship internationally. all of them got shutdown within a week. i'm not sure if it was the buying cheap sh!t that caused it, or them linking those accounts to previously banned ones.

i have a question though. what if you were to set up an account as just a buyer, buy cheap crap just to get the feedback, leave it a few weeks then change to seller? would it still be highly likely you'd get booted?

If your buying only..you should be fine. If your buying for feedback for a seller account, not good idea.

I'm sure if you buy a lot of ebooks like right now and maybe in a month or two decide to sell on that account...it MIGHT be ok but who knows? :noidea:

Why not just but cheap stuff under a pound/dollar and sell them, and you should get some feedback. The loss on the items sold will be very little thou. I would say thats better than buying ebooks thou...

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What does "never rather used things" mean, ass? :confused:

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pretty sure ass meant "never. I'd rather buy used things" or "never. Id rather sell used things"

both work

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I don't think so.

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thank you.. great tips, but i was buy ebook. its ok?

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Stay away from ebooks, recipes, and all that digital crap. Buying feedback is really worthless for a selling account. You can have hundreds of buying feedback but if you don't even have a minimum of 10 selling feedbacks you won't get the 21 day holds lifted.

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Buying feedback is good for making yourself look more trusted on ebay. All these people are scaremongering, buy the feedback.

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agreed, i bought 800 feedbacks (all separate items-simcards,recipes,pictures etc) for one account and not one thing happened to it and that was 2 years ago i bought all the feedback and comparitevly the prices i got on that account outstriped similar accounts with little feedback
why would you get suspended for buying thats just stupid, just pay for the items you buy and you will be grand

don't sell that stuff 4 feedback though that gets you a mec notice