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From my understanding every new account is 10 items or $500 per month whichever comes first (which is nothing for those of us selling authentic luxury items). I am trying to figure out my course of action.
I had a long talk with ebay about this. I even argued with the guy and told him he must be crazy because my account is 2 years old. it doesnt matter how old the account is. You are basically under 90 day review period that starts after your first sale then they will determine if you can sell more if there is no issues. I asked what to do with a garage full of merchandise I bought and the clown at ebay told me "ebay didnt tell you to go buy all that stuff"
You have to always keep in mind that ebay/paypal are very ruthless people and you have to deal with them in ruthless ways.

Moral of the story? Keep making accounts ><

So much for Stealth accounts when you have 300 active listings. :) Ebay will fall on their face, just watch & see.

Basically, I don't see the big deal, like imjustme said, if your complaining about making more accts, eBay just isn't for you lol. I made 5 accounts last week. My problem is all the VPNs and PASSWORDS I gotta remember ^_^

i always write everything done on paper so you got it on the computer and in a draw just in case

Hello imjustme,
I have a question:
My shipping delay like yours (2-3 weeks).
At that time downloads paypal money?
Greetings.

I also got 10 item limit i am from Thailand. I am new to Ebay.

I have a question that while traveling can we ship items from other country, as i have made some accounts and will wait for seller limit to restore. But i use to travel in different Asian countries and i just want to confirm that for e.g I have account in Thailand and list few items and it sold, but until that time i move to Philippines, so can i ship the item from Philippines, do i need to mention in description that item will be send through Philippines post, and while doing so do we violate any Ebay policy.


Regards.
Sam

How about if we has 3 accounts on one Paypal account, then or even 6 or 8 ebay accounts since paypal allows it, so that nearly 60 items per month and if you have over 30 accounts then i guess it would be profitable.

I open a new account. My limit: I can sell 10 items in any 30 day period, or $500.00 which ever comes first. I'm in the US

Just hit the same thing. Account is 9 months old and I just the $500 limit.

I'll spread it out but come on already.

i opened 2 accounts in the last couple weeks,both with the exact same listings but under different but somewhat similar categories.Automotive related,one got hit with the limit and one didnt,itleast not yet.Both have a couple hundred active listings.Im screwed on one because i assume im going to have to eat the listing fees for all my listings but i will sell 10 before all my auctions are finished.So i wont even break even if i actually paid my ebay fees,which based on this model there is no way to do unless i come out of pocket

Don't try to list in wrong categories, your account will be block if Ebay notice it.

What is price of your item? may be i can help you here.
PM me.

pm sent,my listings are typically between 20-30 dollars each

In that limitation message they ask like 3 times to call them and discuss business practices and supplier info, so I guess if you can assure them you are a big legit seller, they will lift the limit right away. I'm going to contact them and ask to remove the limit. We'll see what happens.

10 item limit
 

You're right; I got hit with the 10 item limit too. This is for all new accounts. Ebay is killing us.

Did my post get deleted on the how to list more than 10 items? I just want to make sure i'm not seeing things... Damn, there's more info in the subscribers forum isn't there? Only reason anyone delete my how to... well and ebay finds out . I just thought up how to exploit it to list tons of more items. Gotta be quick though

I listed a "test auction" under everything else for a new account. Hit with 10 item limit

Then all of a sudden it changes to 100 items COMPLETED or $5,000 in 30 days.
ebay/paypal is really playing games here. There is something strategic about what they are doing we just dont know what it is. im SURE they know exactly what they are doing.
Its all to screw us up before the holidays and limit what we can do. Lets keep chopping it up guys so we can get through the holidays and start the year off right and making lots of money.
I have listed over 100 items on a new account with the 10 item limit. sold over 50 in a little over a week. most around $14.99 range some over $39.99 and a few range from $150 and up. total sales of $1200 in 2 weeks. have withdrawn about half of it. waiting on delivery confirmation for the others. no issues.

It said I had 10 item limit. I have listed over 100-sold over 50
 

They gave me a 10 item limit. I went on a listing spree and listed about 100 items just to see what happens. have sold about 50 items and I can still list. I also have gotten some feedback so maybe that makes a difference. no problems.
They are really trying to screw us for holidays. stay diligent.

You guys really need to take it easy. You create an account after being suspended, and list hundreds of items as a new seller, then you complain why you got suspended. Follow the limit, list few items until you get some feedback, then slowly increase the number of items.

good tip for you guys

Are these selling limits here to stay, or will they disappear after Christmas??

i thought that was part of the 90 day thing

'am selling toys here. I phoned eBay for one of my 60-days old accounts and pushed the limit to $3000 + 300 (active+sold for both total value and quantity) cap. Noted that all my accounts are being linked. I tried to create more than 3 linked seller accounts but eBay told me that "You are selling in different (too many) eBay IDs, please decide and email us which account you want to use (close)" lol

The guys at new seller limits hotline told me to contact them on the 1st of every month, they will then review my performance and revise my selling limits base on account performance.

All I can do is to end listings that sold fast and relist. Pretty troublesome as I cannot find any auto-relist feature for Store listings.

It also sucks for high value products. (some of my toys are being sold for $150 so I can only put up 20 listings even at 1pc/listing, if they are slow moving then I don't think I can get enough feedbacks to push the selling limits)

For the ID and address proof problem, are you using different names in PayPal as well?

All accounts in the last week for me are on the limited to 10. I can get 14 listed by exploiting..but that is

i had a limit of 10 but it let me sell 18,i got my auctions taken down and got a message saying to call to verify identity.Throwing that one away and will have items back up by tonight on another name

You guys are trying to get around the limits left and right and are then complaining that you're getting suspended. You don't get around the limits, you sell 10 items per month per account for 3 months and then you're good to go. The only secrets is more seller accounts. That's all.

The only way with no limit is to sell on EbayMotors..

I would have to agree. If you're just spamming your max allotment on you are asking for trouble. 10 items is nothing, list 2-3 a week for a month, just make additional accounts.


Now, that being said.I am going to try and hit my 10 cap on the 2 new accounts i made this week. I wonder how it works if you list an item in November and it ends in December.Which month does it count towards?

As far as I know, the 10 cap is a concurrent selling limit, that means you can end the listing at anytime to free those slots for new listings. Am I right?

I'm just wondering if it is more related to the big sellers they bring on, as with this sort of thing and their tweaking of the search results, it does seem to point toward that. The only people that will benefit is those big sellers that ebay want so much.

Think about it, if you give a big company free listings, then you do not make any money until they sell their goods. So you would do what you could to make their items sell. They all so want those big companies to stick around, so if your stuff is getting in their way then you will have problems.

The rest of us pay for it if it sells or not.

Easy way to work that one out I suppose. Ask anyone getting this done to them or having their listings hidden to look and see if they have a big company as competition?

the 10 items start deducting as soon as someone wins the auction or when someone uses buy it now..

You can end listings and start as many as you need,

Remember the person dont have to pay but it will still count against you.

Example = if you are selling 10 baby can reads at 50.00 buy it now..

i can say **** this guy and buy all 10 of them and never pay you..

At that point you are screwed for that account until you file for unpaid item against me..

hope that helps

:surrender:

1 lap to go?

I'm still convinced this is due to the Christmas season. Remember that they started this in October, and giving new sellers a 90 days (3 months) period when they can't list too much. 3 months from October is ...? Right, January. Holiday season over.

Dose this limit apply to this category?



* Health & Beauty >
* Make-Up & Tools >

The problem with that theory is it is not hitting every body in every category.

You could argue that they are picking on problematic categories, in which case we could work out what categories need to be avoided for setting up new accounts.

I wonder what happens if they begin to sell another item or start off selling one item and then switch to the offending items?

I am actually about to start doing that, so I'll update you guys.

Have multiple stealths, all selling the same VERO item in 1 category. Each stealth has 10/$500 limit.

Going to be opening up 5 more stealths this week.

On a few of them I'll be selling random stuff not in that category. On a few of them I'll be selling from that category, but not the actual VERO item.

My hope is that I can start off selling in the same category, reach the limit, call someone on eBay, then slowly start sifting in the VERO items.

We'll see I guess.

They are doing this for the masses...new rules rollin in before the NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

Get ready for changes....

They make it harder every Christmas. At least that's how I see it. Back in 2009, 3 months before Christmas they started verifying phone numbers before listing items if you didn't log in from a recognized computer. After Christmas, they let you verify either with the eMail PIN or the phone call. It always gets easier after Christmas. This year it's the selling limit. I'm quite sure they will start dropping the selling limits again after Christmas. Or at least increase them to 100 per month for new sellers. 10 is way too low for eBay to survive. They're suspending existing sellers at a faster rate than they allow new sellers to grow.