 Finally Here After Paypal Limited & Consecutive 30-day Ebay Restrictions
Hey all,
So I got the Amazon/Ebay guides a few months ago and have been putting off 'going stealth'. Things were going good, I had a few items here and there getting pulled, one 3 day restriction, etc. Then they decided to give me a 30 day restriction on one of my Ebay accounts in December, opened up in Jan, and 4 days later another one came down for two listings (one I probably should have given up on.. as they removed the item with a lesser quantity beforehand.) I had my main Amazon seller account nuked, which sucked, but at least I pulled some decent coin out of it before it went.
Just as my first 30 day was up, I got a love note for my Business Paypal account saying my account was permanently limited due to my site selling things against their TOU. This was on an account rolling through quite a bit of sales for a solid 4-5 months. They had me remove some items from my Ebay/Bz store, and said nothing about the site.. which I found odd. That should have been my signal to straighten things up a bit.
So basically where I'm at now is having swapped that PPal acc for my personal one that is over a decade old, converting it to business to keep my ebay/bonanza sales still rolling in while I figure out just what the hell to do. What makes it better is that I just spent quite a chunk on inventory, mainly to sell on the site in question ahead of the Chinese New Year month-long break.
The thing I'm most worried about is that both my Ebay accounts, and all three of my PP accounts are kind of tied together through my computer. So I'm not sure how long my secondary account replacement is going to work for my Ebay account, so long as I don't use it for the site in question.
I've been putting out feelers for high risk merchant accounts. I read about GSPay being scammers on here and a few other places. I know of another site selling similar items with Authorize.net as the gateway, no idea how to find out the merchant account provider however. (If anyone has a tip on how to do that, I'd gladly pay for a consult.)
Basically I just need to figure out how i'm gonna unload a good bit of inventory with all my stuff being on lock down right now. I'm searching for greener & more mainstream pastures.. but the temptation of the easy money sucked me in last year and now I'm in the shizz.
I'm gonna spend awhile combing over other threads to learn stuff. I'm not 100% clear on how the stealth thing works for multiple accounts from the same computer. I'm probably just going to have to drop some coin and play with an account to see whats what. Its hard to learn how to throw a baseball by just reading about how to do it, right?
Anyhow, that's my story. Dunno how many people read the new guy posts, but I figured I didn't have much to love by throwing it all out there. Like I said if anyone with experience dealing with this sort of thing consults to solve problems like these, I'm open to it. The restriction is losing me a fair bit of money in orders I'm not taking in daily.
Stay stealthy my friends...
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