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My *new* ebay account is still up and running after 2 weekends, I'll find out saturday morning if it is still alive for the 3rd week.

This time, I am only listing about 2-3 items per week. I did not open an "ebay store" like I did before and I'm not using paypal with it.

I also opened a another paypal account, but have not used it yet.

I've sold a couple of things through ebay on the new accounts. I did NOT link ebay at all. It has survived the weekend again.

I'm trying to be real slow. No ebay store, just listing 1-2 items a day, all auction style, very expensive to list, and shipping quickly.

However, I noticed, when I listed a couple of items today, the option to receive payment via VISA/MC is gone. The last couple of items I listed, I have linked to the paypal account. Now time will tell if that will be the demise of it. I have never received a paypal payment directly for any of the auctions, and the account is staying open.

$800 in an account is suggestive of an item that might upset paypal because of the amount :peace: If that happens it's high risk....which in your case it was because you got limited:spy:

onlineseller, how did you do that? im looking to do exactly what your doing...

do what?

I'm not out of the woods yet. I just made a new account, and have been working on it SLOWLY.

Patience seems to be the key, as proven by some of the more experienced users here.

You know what might help? If you are sure you can trust the supplier, don't use paypal. Use Western Union. They will get the money in about 1 day and it only costs $10.00. If you have to send a payment of $1000.00 or more, send 2 payments because WU is required to report all transactions of $1000.00 or more.

Meh it's all relative, it's all about risk with paypal. If they think something is shady, they'll limit it. Even if it's not.

10+ accounts, go slow. List 2-3 items PER WEEK on each. End auctions early even if profits look high. I ended an auction at xx amount today. Why? Because it still had 3 days to go and the price was enough profit for me, and the sale gets completed... hopefully heh

I've survived another saturday. The slow listing and lack of paypal seems to be the key. After this week, it's time to start working another account, and start a rotation like many experienced members have done.

I just made an ebay account (i think I gave an incrrect address on file from the address it asked at the card page to make a sellers)

I was listing a genuine used TV which I took photos of.

ebay gave me MC010

then they suspended me...

saying "there was a discrepency with my registration information"

:S

how can I just use an ebay sellers account and just sell

I'm not sure about that one, with all of the ebay accounts I have been through, I have never had to do that.

I just open the account, add a phone number, verify the PIN, and make a listing (only 1).

I'm getting close to the 30 day mark and nothing has happened yet, so I think I will be OK as long as I keep listing slowly and not sell any high dollar items.

Are you in UK? There could be a different set of rules there.


update: I have accepted my first ebay payment through paypal directly. I also used that same paypal account to pay my first ebay invoice. So we will see what paypal thinks about this.

Happy Monday!

This new paypal account now has a 21 day hold policy. This is after receiving my first payment 2nd payment through ebay. I'm not sure if it had to do with ebay or not.

Made it through another Saturday. It's funny how ebay is not suspending my account when they are making about $10 out of every auction.

$200 of the $400 funds that were on hold were released today. I sent the $200 to a friend of mine who needed some money.

We will see what paypal thinks about this "activity" monday morning.

Survived another paypal monday. The sending out of $200 did not seem to trip the trigger.

I checked, and I'm about $850 received on this new account without an issue. I think that I should really try not to go over $1000.


Keep in mind that my old VERIFIED account, received only $600 and was instantly limited. But it was only open for a few days. So, as many have said 100x, slow and steady is the key here. This account is still not verified and has received more in total funds.

There's a $500 recieving limit on new accounts also they don't like dropshipers, you need to pay your supplier from another account. Also its better to start off selling at least 20-30 lower priced non branded items to get the account ready.

Dude, a Week!!! WAAAAAY To Fast, I personally sheepdip (Prepare) my accounts for 3 Months before I attempt a single sale, and when I do start to sell, I make the Sale, collect the money, ship the Item, beg for feedback, get the feedback, wait for the Paypal hold to drop, Withdraw MOST, Not ALL of the money, and start again.

By the end of the third month from when I started selling I may have 3, TOPS, items that I will sell in a week. By the end of that accounts First year I MAY have 15-20 items selling in a week.

I'm only selling used items that I have on hand. A couple of more sales and then this account is going on the shelf to age like a fine wine.

I think I just screwed myself up.

I added another address (a real one, not mine). The original address was ⊗⊗⊗⊗. It was never an issue before.

So today I login from a new IP, and it's asking me to verify the CC # on the account. It was a prepaid card and I threw it away a long time ago. I never figured on having to keep that around after it was empty.

There is about $300 in there and the account was perfect! I should not have added that address without thinking first. CRAP!

Is there any way to force my internet BACK to the IP I used yesterday? I wrote it down. I'm using AT&T dsl. I don't know if it will help but it's worth a shot.

looks like to me you are going to have to provide the credit card info or it just may get suspended... - call them

Get a new gift card and set it up with the new address. Then go to PP and add the new CC then verify it.

I can't do that, because I can't login.

As soon as I try to login, it asks to verify the original CC # which I threw away.

nearly $400 lost

Read #41. If you can't do it online, call them and tell them you left the old card in a taxi when you were out partying. So now you have the re-issued card and need to update your PP...

Think outside the box just a teensy tiny bit.

Before I call, I want to make sure that I can't find the old card. So far I haven't found it.

I did start a spreadsheet for all the new accounts that I have made. This way I can keep track of all of these "sleeper" accounts.

It was my fault, I did not verify the account with a checking account. I should have done that. Stick to the rules guys!