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How long should I wait until selling for new Ebay account?
 

Followed the Stealth guide to a T, like usual. Created the account I believe Sunday afternoon. I have been searching, watching, just doing other bull stuff. How long do you think before I can list two or three DVD's for sale? Everything is confirmed on Paypal and such too.

I am going to start out slow obviously, I am probably going to sell 20 or so used DVD's so I can get the seller rating to 20 and get rid of the stupid 21 day hold, but I was just wondering how long you should age Ebay accounts before jumping in and selling. Really don't want to get popped for the ID verify or anything.

I usually start selling within the first week:)

CaptainJack

Be careful with used DVDs. Do a mixture of items if you can.

Really? You think they would think they were bootleg? I have new ones I could sell as well, I was just hoping to get some feedback up. I don't like selling used ones either too because I make it clear I do not accept refunds because people buy them, copy them, and then return them. But they will make up an excuse like Oh there is a scratch on it and file a claim and I have to give them their money back. That has happened like 3 times. Used items a bitch to sell in anything.

Not really in anything.... If you are selling authentic designer items, many times it is better to sell used than new ones. Gets under less scrutiny because why would somebody be selling brand new shoes or purse that cost them hundreds or thousands?..and for less than they bought? It's Ebay..

Just start slow, but do get started.

As soon as my account is classified as a seller account, I begin.

Also on one account, I listed about 6-7 bluray movies (my own) from the get go and once those sold, listed 5 more and then moved on to other things. No problems experienced.

Good luck, just act as a new seller would. Dont try to move $6000 through there your first week like you see some posts on here questioning why they are limited or have to provide numerous documents.

Sounds like you and I do about the same thing. I have a wholesale place I get Blu Rays from I have like 7 Star Trek Blu Rays I need to list for sale. First though I would like to get rid of the 21 day hold though before I start selling any major items. I was just initially wondering if maybe I should wait for a little bit before selling.

It's not always how long you wait, but sometimes what your selling. I personally would not start off selling DVDs on a new account. Just sell random stuff around the house or buy a large lot of items and sell individually. I personally don't list until my accounts are 3-4 months old, but I have about 10 accounts made and aging as we speak.

Aged accounts:
 

I am new and curious...

Aking, Are the aged accounts you refer to "Seller accounts" or "Buyer" accounts?

The accounts I have aging are buyers accounts. I have done nothing with these accounts but create them. By the time I get ready to use them, they will be almost a year old. By then, ebay will not look twice at these accounts when I make them a seller account.

Planning ahead and being patient is the only way to be successful on eBay.

Exactly! Plan for long term, dont move too quick and pay attention too simple mistakes you could easily make and avoid them.

It will work ;)

I wait 30 days before selling but start buying straight away.

I just listed 5 items for sale, 3 used DVDs and a couple books. I am going to wait till they sell, ship, and get feedback before I list anymore I think. I just need to get this thing up and running fast I have a big lot of Blu Rays I need to start listing!

One of the problems with my business it that it has become too reliant on another companies website. If your goal is to sell your merchandise, don't forget about other online marketplaces.

Usually with a new ebay account I have a right rummage through the house and find 100 bits of "tat".

IE: calculators, used shoes, CD's the odd DVD, a broken watch etc etc.

Now these things are not worth a whole lot, but when I list them I acheive 2 things. 1) I get rid of any household clutter ( I am a vigourous de-clutterer)

2) You build trust in your ebay account, and when you sell low value things you dont often get any paypal holds or any problems.

If you can hit the magic number of at least 50 feedback or even better 100, then you can start selling better stuff in the account.

I do this often. It's good advice.


However, keep in mind, you will get limited. It's just a matter of time.

Yup, at this point in my life I figure to keep an Ebay account about 2 months at the longest. Sell to the 20 feedback, get the hold removed, sell the stuff that depreciates in value then start selling the bigger stuff. As the payments come in I quickly print shipping and withrdraw the money. Once I sell a certain amount the limitation will come in, but I say eff it and just create another account. Ebay and paypal have stole thousands from me so I figure to just screw them out of their fees as much as possible.

Well i don't know what you selling or doing to get limited that quickly, i hardly ever get any of my accounts limited and even if one does i usually get it straight back anyway.

AND you stop getting paypal holds :amen:

Yes thats right no annoying PP holds.

First what do you mean that you will get limited its just a matter of time?

Do you mean when you start selling Vero stuff?

Otherwise once you are established there is no reason that you should be limited as long as you keep nice high DSR's and offer excellent customer service?

Vigil you mean you just get to the point when you can sell like the devil and then not pay the ebay fees?

Volume is indeed a problem. I have had limitations on all my main accounts within the first 2 months of major selling.... usually comes once I pass the £2000 point.

If I was doing that over a year it probably wouldn't be an issue but the number of accounts I would need to create and manage would be prohibitive.

Far easier to spend a bit of time creating the necessary docs to get past limitations.

CaptainJack

With legitimate volume selling they still limit you? What reason do they give?

Suspicious use?

Once you provide the docs you can continue selling like you were but with no similar problem, or you are just prepared to submit the same docs again?

Yes no VERO :)

Only been limited the once so far on each account.

Guess they just want to make sure I don't sell a ton of stuff and then do one....

CaptainJack

just start slowly until you get some + feedback . ask your buyers to leave feedback as soon as possible. and if you are selling with many accounts try to organize your work and create windows user account for each one . the IP issue is not big problem unless some of them got suspended .

I mean I just get to the point where I have 30 or so positive feedback, the hold is gone, then I just sell like crazy. I sell Blu-Rays, DVDs, Video games and computer software. I also sell high end software like Windows 7 and whatnot, so they sell for up to $200.00 a piece. Once it gets to a certain point of sales totals they WILL limit the account, there is NO way to get around this. Before Christmas I had over 120 positive feedback, never had a dispute, and was selling software and sold over $4,000 in about 2 1/2 months and boom, got limited. I don't purposefully sell to rip Ebay off really, but once I get to the point where they can't hold my money anymore I withdraw it. I continue to sell high end items and if a limitation comes in I just abandon the account and create a new one, so in other words I'm off the hook for the $200 or so worth of Ebay fees.

Things are getting tighter and tighter and it seems to be getting harder and harder for even the most dedicated of sellers to be able to sell consistantly.

When I am selling I am striving for the highest customer service always with DSR's to the max, I just like to light up all the stars as I figure that this will entice more people to bid. I dont sell anything that could potentially link to vero, I sell a wide range of UK retail products including electricals, cosmetics etc etc.

The amount of times I have got nailed for no reason is just madness, I dread to think where ebay is a year or even 5 years from now. Will we still be able to sell? Will it be worth it or just too much hassle?

Hopefully there will be some other good options in the future and I dont mean like some of the other useless websites that exist. Something to come close to matching ebay, and the only such company that sticks in my mind is google, I would love to see it.

Vigil when you are doing your selling thing and you get to the point where they limit you what reason do they give? and do they lift the limit again or just stop you totally dead in your tracks?

I am not sure if they do that in the UK, the only reason I have been stopped from selling is if my credit card is declined and I have hit approx £250 in selling fees.

Any ideas on this?

From what I've notice with alot of different people with different problems is that they create only 1 stealth account and use just 1 and have $6k go into the account and wonder why they get limited. But just think use the stealth book secrets to create 10 accounts which will build the accounts up and make them last longer because it will only have $600 go through the account. If you did this on a monthly basis then it would take about 10 months to have $6k run through the each of the accounts. Juggling 10 accounts by no means is easy but it beats the hassle of focusing on 1 account and then it goes bye bye then back to the drawing board. This PayPal/ebay game is silmilar to roulette, you gotta spread the risk to gain some rewards.

They normally just limit me and say we need to verify all your information. Identification, invoices, the works. If I cared about the account or had that much money locked in it I might try to make ⊗⊗⊗⊗ stuff and send it in, but in reality I don't really care anymore. Fact is, if there is no money left in it besides the hassel of making a new account I don't have to pay Ebay fees on the items. Like I said I sell high priced software so its just a matter of time before I get popped. The $6,000 mark isnt true, I sold just a hair over $3000 when I got popped. I guess it just depends on what you are selling.

There really isn't a specific money limit you reach. It's a matter of when they decide to do it. I've had accounts get limited with 100 dollars received, and 100000 dollars received. There's no reason behind it. There are things you can do to delay it.

But it's inevitabre arec barwin.

Agreed, you are delaying the inevitable with a Stealth Account. Its like death, there's no way you can escape it. Eventually whether its 100 feedback or 1,000 feedback, your going to get popped, and the game ends there if you can't provide a bunch of bull**** forms. But like I said, I have no problem sticking it to Ebay for the fees, saves me some money!