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So has anyone just made more accounts recently and just started selling cheap stuff right away? I know thats not the best way, but it leaves some of us with no choice if we want to keep selling with these limits. I just made like 4 accounts last week and Im super anxious to start selling again, lol.

I'm going to be making more account and more sleeper accounts because aside from these limits you also have to keep in mind of the 20k paypal ssn requirment.

If you start selling immediately then you will loose the account hands down.

You have to let account age at least 30 days and then build at least five feedbacks in 3-4 weeks then you can start selling. This way the account will stay up longer.

I kind of like the new limit actually, it makes it easier to run more accounts and you've got a whole month to figure out how to get $500 out of all those accounts.

I hate this new limit. When each one of your items cost $200-300 dollars the limit is nothing to break.

Selling 100+ expensive items with this limit is not possible.

The phone verification went away after Christmas too, because I remember I phone verified the last accounts around December 22nd last year, then in January I was able to email verify.

It could be because of Christmas indeed. They introduced the 10/100 limits in early October ...which makes January the 90 days. It could be here to stay, though ...but I guess not as strict as 10 items every 30 days for 3 months. Possibly for the 1st month, but eBay can't afford this in the long run, and they can't possibly manually review every single account that has sold 10 items. It's impossible. They're already swamped now.

I seem to have no limits, opened a new stealth one month ago, listed more than ten items.

Touchwood

I still have limits on my accts, depends on category.

Yeah the categories mentioned seem to be mostly high-risk items. I usually dropship so I can sell other stuff no problem.

The limits are different with certain items, categories, and the way it is set up.... selling limits are always there for items that are considered high risk. If they didnt have these limits, you would sell too much and get kicked off anyway.

I've noticed this too. In the beginning, when I tried to list in the "Buddhist Amulets" section, for example, I got hit with a 10 limit for new accounts. Now I'm able to list even with a quantity of 45 without getting hit with a limit of 10, while in Clothing I can still only list 10 items. It seems that eBay is loosening up the restrictions.

All you gotta do is open more ebays per paypal with same info, I just opened 4 today linked to 1 paypal, thats 40 items per month or $2000, I'm gonna open another 4 over the next week for a total of 80 per month or $4000, since paypal lets you add up to 8 emails.

That increases the risk of MC010, though.

I've never gotten an mc010 on an ebay acc. with same info. On ebay accs. w/ same info I list an item right from the start w/ 0 fb and haven't had any problems.

Good to know jbluntz, so everything is the same?

Phone number, etc. You don't even need another VCC or bank, because it's the same PayPal. It's just the exact same info, but on 2+ eBay usernames, right?

Do you also use the same IP for the "batch" of same eBays?

Yeah everything is the same, just a different email and username. Same IP and user account for the 2 accounts.

Thanks for the info.

Why doesn't eBay know this is happening (assuming they don't) and wouldn't they declare this as a violation of some policy. I mean, this pretty much circumnavigates their 10 limit policy per seller, if each seller is allowed to use the SAME information to create multiple accounts.

Either way, I'm trying it later today =].

thanks for spilling the beans to the masses again.....

This is what the non stealth ebayers do already ,ebay let's you, it's no secret.

People have been doing that for years yes. ebay even states you can have multiple accounts

But telling all of these new desperate people to do so is just going to make things harder in the long run

That could be but with all the millions of ebay accs. out there I kinda doubt it.

Except these strategies they've put in place weren't caused by millions of users

China new seller 5 per month. Hong Kong 10 per month

Are you positive they double the limit with 2 accounts? Someone in a recent post (I think it was this thread, not sure) said it doesn't work like that. For example, if you're already at the 10 items limit on one account, if you add another ebay acct, that account will be maxed out as well. I'm not saying your wrong, just saying someone was saying otherwise.

I'm gonna test it myself and see what happens.

The only question I have: is this gonna be a seasonal thing like last year, or is ebay sticking with this policy year round? I pray it's not the latter.

Nobody knows, really. At least not until January comes.

If it helps anything, I found a seller that first started selling in August 2010, then got a selling limit of 10 items per month in October 2010, but 3 months after his first sale was able to list over 600 items since. So it does seem like it's lifted quite a bit after 3 months of active selling.

I agree with you!



Donot sell too much.. in a short time!

I noticed eBay updated their help pages when they introduced the selling limits. This part here explains a lot:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/new-seller-limits.html

Automatically removed, awesome.

I will open more accts only when the main/first one has decent feedback.

Imjustme, you da' man!

Dude you just made my Christmas!

Thank you for sharing these valuable pieces of information.

So after three months your home free!

He didn't post the golden ticket to success here guys.... this does not mean that ebay will grant you the ability to sell more. they could still shut you down if they choose to

You have to maintain good feedback and customer service and just stay under the radar for three months and then they'll remove the limit and that comes straight from ebay.

Ebay has always had the power to shut down your account, but it's our job to stay under the radar and keep the account for as long as possible.

The good thing is that at least we can sell as much as we want after the 90 days. We also have to take account of the IRS problem with paypal but that can be solved with more accounts.

So these limits were only placed due to Christmas.

Imjustme, thank you again for pointing out the change on ebay's site.

I think the 3 months limit period will stay after Christmas too. And in a way, it's a good thing. It'll help you start building up the account slowly. Still after 3 months you shouldn't sell too much. Maybe 20-30 items, then wait for more FB.

Maybe not an increase ASAP, but after like around 20 feedback...you should be good. Increased usually to 100, but it seems they can actually give your CUSTO limits.

Thanks to ebay's new limits I've got about 40 accounts lined up so far, if it wasn't for the new limits I probably would have stayed around 5-10 like many others. So now instead of ebay having to worry about millions of accounts now they're gonna have to start worrying about billions of accounts, what a smart strategy lol...

Same here. I used to sell on the same around 30 accounts for nearly 2 years, although I have almost 100 backup accounts. In the last almost 3 months, I made over 40 more accounts and each of them have already over 10 feedback from selling.

Im about to go make 10 now, lol.

Thank god for the holidays...i making atleast 3 accounts a day..Bought myself a netbook to make more user accounts.

Ahhh, it's the 1st of the month so you guys know what that means, time to list another 10 items @ $50 a pc on 40 accts. lol. I'm liking these limits just can't wait till the 90 days is up, just imagine 40 established seller accts. with out the new limits, THANK YOU EBAY!!!!!!!