Question about reduced selling limit/below standard account.

[Iron_chin]

Selling limit reduced to 10/1700 from 100/3500. My account is due to go back to above standard on the next review, do will my limits increase back automatically or will I have to request? If do should I call or click request higher allowance? Thanx.

[dan_ebay]

call I think. Just had this happen to mine, gone back above standard a couple of weeks ago but still won't let me click the 'request higher limits' button either

[Hotspur999]

They will almost certainly not increase automatically.

You can call them to ask but not recommended. Create new stealths and get selling on there too. Going below standard is really harmful to accounts, try your hardest to keep them atleast above standard.

[stuartalex]

Or stop offering sub standard goods or services or whatever it is you are doing to get limits reduced.
You must be getting bad feedback or ratings to have limits reduced

[wired]

Originally Posted by stuartalex

Or stop offering sub standard goods or services or whatever it is you are doing to get limits reduced.
You must be getting bad feedback or ratings to have limits reduced

Pathetic and completely unhelpful response.

It only takes very few scammers and bad customers to bring an account below standard. It can these days, have NO reflection on the seller at all. I have one account just about to come out of top rated because of scammers, and it has over 600 sales and 99.9 percent positive feedback.

Remember, everyone knows eBay is 3bay, and a certain amount use it to ensure they get goods for free. If you sell in a catagory that attracts low lifes, then this will happen.

[JamesNorth101]

Limits will in time increase again by themselves, but it could take months.

You need to work out what caused the limits to be reduced and work out how to cut that out to ensure it does not happen again

[ceebee]

Originally Posted by wired

Pathetic and completely unhelpful response.

It only takes very few scammers and bad customers to bring an account below standard. It can these days, have NO reflection on the seller at all. I have one account just about to come out of top rated because of scammers, and it has over 600 sales and 99.9 percent positive feedback.

Remember, everyone knows eBay is 3bay, and a certain amount use it to ensure they get goods for free. If you sell in a catagory that attracts low lifes, then this will happen.

I agree 100%

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by wired

Pathetic and completely unhelpful response.

It only takes very few scammers and bad customers to bring an account below standard. It can these days, have NO reflection on the seller at all. I have one account just about to come out of top rated because of scammers, and it has over 600 sales and 99.9 percent positive feedback.

Remember, everyone knows eBay is 3bay, and a certain amount use it to ensure they get goods for free. If you sell in a catagory that attracts low lifes, then this will happen.

If the truth is pathetic then so be it. Or do you really expect us to believe that all your negative comments come from "scammers"? And that you're blameless?

Not unhelpful at all. I've been on ebay for 13 years and never even been close to having limits reduced.

I would be interested to know about which categories attract low lifes.
And in the many thousands of transactions I've done I've been ripped off once by a Norwegian , causing me to stop selling internationally and only once by a career scammer .
It was a bit easier a few years ago to keep track of the activities of your buyers and I was able to discover that the guy ripping me off was doing the same to other sellers on both ebay and Amazon.
Shankland was his surname.
A threat to call his local police about obtaining goods by deception was enough to get him to cancel the £100+ refund he had gotten off me but it took a fair bit of persuasion from me and other sellers before Ebay actually banned him

What goods can be obtained for free?
Anything over a certain value I send by signed for so there's none of this "It didn't arrive" rubbish and for claims of faulty goods I get them to return the item.

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

You need to work out what caused the limits to be reduced and work out how to cut that out to ensure it does not happen again

Which is why my suggestion was 100% accurate.

And if all the complainants really are scammers then steps can be put in place to stop them.

Send using signed for, get "faulty" items returned , don't sell outside the UK (or use the GSP)


Ebay have some odd rules. One of the sellers I buy off has a huge amount of sales yet he has around 1000 negative or neutral feedback comments per month. Now that is a small enough percentage for him to remain a top rated seller yet shouldn't someone with 250 dissatisfied customers a week not be a top rated seller?

[wired]

Originally Posted by stuartalex

Which is why my suggestion was 100% accurate.

And if all the complainants really are scammers then steps can be put in place to stop them.

Send using signed for, get "faulty" items returned , don't sell outside the UK (or use the GSP)


Ebay have some odd rules. One of the sellers I buy off has a huge amount of sales yet he has around 1000 negative or neutral feedback comments per month. Now that is a small enough percentage for him to remain a top rated seller yet shouldn't someone with 250 dissatisfied customers a week not be a top rated seller?

Still completely incurrate as you are giving an example of a huge mega seller, which most of us are not. Yes go and sell 1000 bic biros a week for a 1p each, take a loss, spend forever wrapping and posting them and you may beat the defect system, but its just not practical.

Scammers can destroy an account quite quickly, and yes every one has steps to beat them, but sometimes its just not possible. For example, you get the , 'email' where you know they want it for free and will leave neg if not, however they dont actually say that as not to alert ebay - they know what they are doing. 6 of them on a 500 sale account - out of TRS.And yes, it happens, especially if you sell in a field where low lifes troll.

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by wired

Still completely incurrate as you are giving an example of a huge mega seller, which most of us are not. Yes go and sell 1000 bic biros a week for a 1p each, take a loss, spend forever wrapping and posting them and you may beat the defect system, but its just not practical.

Scammers can destroy an account quite quickly, and yes every one has steps to beat them, but sometimes its just not possible. For example, you get the , 'email' where you know they want it for free and will leave neg if not, however they dont actually say that as not to alert ebay - they know what they are doing. 6 of them on a 500 sale account - out of TRS.And yes, it happens, especially if you sell in a field where low lifes troll.

Actually , the seller I was referring to sells tens of thousands of items a month. I would give an average price across the board of over £10 per item.

I'm still interested in knowing what "field" attracts low lifes.

[wired]

Originally Posted by stuartalex

Actually , the seller I was referring to sells tens of thousands of items a month. I would give an average price across the board of over £10 per item.

I'm still interested in knowing what "field" attracts low lifes.

YEs so its quite easy to stay out of the red with that volume so is kind of irrelevant to this conversation, the OP is a low /normal user, like most, who can be punished very quickly with scammers.

You can be interested all you want , but no one gives out their selling area secrets

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by wired

YEs so its quite easy to stay out of the red with that volume so is kind of irrelevant to this conversation, the OP is a low /normal user, like most, who can be punished very quickly with scammers.

You can be interested all you want , but no one gives out their selling area secrets

It should be easy to stay out of the red but my point was that he has 250 dissatisfied customers a week so he should not be top rated.

If you're not even prepared to say what type of goods you sell then you're complaints about scammers are irrelevant and meaningless.

Unless the type of goods you sell are the one and only product on ebay that attracts scammers your comment could be total fiction.

How about a selection of which types of goods attract scammers?

[wired]

Originally Posted by stuartalex

It should be easy to stay out of the red but my point was that he has 250 dissatisfied customers a week so he should not be top rated.

If you're not even prepared to say what type of goods you sell then you're complaints about scammers are irrelevant and meaningless.

Unless the type of goods you sell are the one and only product on ebay that attracts scammers your comment could be total fiction.

How about a selection of which types of goods attract scammers?

I know you have not been around a long time, so I will refrain from pointing a full obvious's out.

That seller you mention should not be top rated, this is another example of how the defect policy does not work, I don't think you understand it correctly at all.

You have also contradicted yourself quite heavily in your third and fourth paragraph.

Once you have been around a bit longer and understand the defect policy, then we can chat more, but no, I am not going to tell you an area I sell in, dont be daft now, you can call it fiction, I call it being sensible.Being that I have been selling on ebay for over fifteen years, I am perfectly experienced and educated in making an informed observational opinion, and passing it over as advice.

I like a giggle though, so thankyou.

Now, Back to Topic

[garry9061]

Originally Posted by wired

I know you have not been around a long time, so I will refrain from pointing a full obvious's out.

That seller you mention should not be top rated, this is another example of how the defect policy does not work, I don't think you understand it correctly at all.

You have also contradicted yourself quite heavily in your third and fourth paragraph.

Once you have been around a bit longer and understand the defect policy, then we can chat more, but no, I am not going to tell you an area I sell in, dont be daft now, you can call it fiction, I call it being sensible.Being that I have been selling on ebay for over fifteen years, I am perfect experienced and educated in making an informed observational opinion, and passing it over as advice.

I like a giggle though, so thankyou.

Now, Back to Topic

Wired is completley right here, i have lost 2 accounts due to low standard because i sell products which are cheap (£2). They are high quality and i send with standard post becuase they are simply to cheap to send with tracking, I know both of those accounts went down due to scammers and i even proved it to eBay but come on we all know ebay are wankers but they are our source of income.

[rsot]

Scammers will target the cheap products as well as pricey items that are not tracked :( sad to say but I hear you on the problems caused

[dan_ebay]

Originally Posted by stuartalex

If the truth is pathetic then so be it. Or do you really expect us to believe that all your negative comments come from "scammers"? And that you're blameless?

Not unhelpful at all. I've been on ebay for 13 years and never even been close to having limits reduced.

I would be interested to know about which categories attract low lifes.
And in the many thousands of transactions I've done I've been ripped off once by a Norwegian , causing me to stop selling internationally and only once by a career scammer .
It was a bit easier a few years ago to keep track of the activities of your buyers and I was able to discover that the guy ripping me off was doing the same to other sellers on both ebay and Amazon.
Shankland was his surname.
A threat to call his local police about obtaining goods by deception was enough to get him to cancel the £100+ refund he had gotten off me but it took a fair bit of persuasion from me and other sellers before Ebay actually banned him

What goods can be obtained for free?
Anything over a certain value I send by signed for so there's none of this "It didn't arrive" rubbish and for claims of faulty goods I get them to return the item.

clothes,cheap electronics,cosmetics etc etc, very easy to go below standard with the defect system as people just open up a return if they don't like it. And about scammers, I posted in another thread that I get 3% lost on ebay and 0.5% on my website. Tried doing recorded for a lot more and suddenly I kept sending people the wrong items, funny that

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by wired

I know you have not been around a long time, so I will refrain from pointing a full obvious's out.

That seller you mention should not be top rated, this is another example of how the defect policy does not work, I don't think you understand it correctly at all.

You have also contradicted yourself quite heavily in your third and fourth paragraph.

Once you have been around a bit longer and understand the defect policy, then we can chat more, but no, I am not going to tell you an area I sell in, dont be daft now, you can call it fiction, I call it being sensible.Being that I have been selling on ebay for over fifteen years, I am perfectly experienced and educated in making an informed observational opinion, and passing it over as advice.

I like a giggle though, so thankyou.

Now, Back to Topic

I've been selling on ebay for almost 14 years so I don't see what difference it makes.

None in fact.

Information on what you claim to be types of product that attracts low lifes would actually be a useful contribution .
Your refusal to mention anything makes it sound as if you reckon the type of products you sell are the one and only type of product that would attract scammers which is clearly nonsense so all your complaints about scammers must be taken with a pinch of salt.

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by rsot

Scammers will target the cheap products as well as pricey items that are not tracked :( sad to say but I hear you on the problems caused

I don't mind saying that 99.9% of the items I sell are non trackable items so the theory that this automatically attracts scammers is questionable.

Anyone that sends pricey items without tracking is , quite frankly , an idiot

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by garry9061

Wired is completley right here, i have lost 2 accounts due to low standard because i sell products which are cheap (£2). They are high quality and i send with standard post becuase they are simply to cheap to send with tracking, I know both of those accounts went down due to scammers and i even proved it to eBay but come on we all know ebay are wankers but they are our source of income.

My products usually go for £4.99 so the fact that I don't use tracking would , according to you attract scammers.
I think I can say that in the last one thousand transactions I've replaced items maybe 3 or 4 times. Maybe those 3 or 4 were actually genuine claims but it does show that this business of non trackable stuff attracting scammers is not entirely accurate.
As I said above , "in your experience".

Would be interested to know how you not only knew the account issues were down to scammers but were actually able to prove it to ebay.

[wired]

Mate have you got some serious issues going on?

Why not take a valium, sit back in an easy chair, put some nice tunes on and stop arguing with all and sundry. It wont get you very far on the forum or in life, enjoy your £4.99 items, and be glad you don't get scammed. As the majority of this thread has shown the same census roundabout, but you feel as though, you, the minority, must be right?

You are starting to sound like an Ebay/PayPal plant - We have had them before, asking similar questions with a similar attitude or just a troll.

Anyways, enjoy your chilllax time, and let those brain cells have a rest tonight yo

[stuartalex]

Originally Posted by wired

Mate have you got some serious issues going on?

Why not take a valium, sit back in an easy chair, put some nice tunes on and stop arguing with all and sundry. It wont get you very far on the forum or in life, enjoy your £4.99 items, and be glad you don't get scammed. As the majority of this thread has shown the same census roundabout, but you feel as though, you, the minority, must be right?

You are starting to sound like an Ebay/PayPal plant - We have had them before, asking similar questions with a similar attitude or just a troll.

Anyways, enjoy your chilllax time, and let those brain cells have a rest tonight yo

Serious issues? A troll? Not at all.

Troll is the overused claim when there's nothing decent to counter a different opinion.

There must be a reason I don't get scammed as often yet you still can't come up with anything to explain why you do. I am genuinely interested.

Arguing? You mean disagreeing surely? Unfortunately my ebay experiences seem to be different to yours ( in this area at least) and I find no reason just to sit back and agree with you just because you don't seem to like an alternative view. (The majority census on this thread amounts to 4- not really a huge amount)

I'm sorry if my queries and opinions don't toe the party line or agree with those who think they know better but I didn't realise that was necessary.
I would think most users would find an alternative viewpoint useful specially when some of the information being given is at best over cautious.

Unless you expect me just to take you at your word I would still be interested in opinions as to why you ( and your mates) get scammed yet I don't ( not as often at any rate) and yet I would say 99% of the items I sent are not trackable . I only use tracking once multiple items get the total near £20.
One of paypals most unreasonable conditions is to expect sellers to use tracking on everything