New selling limit, 10 items allowed only

[First Edition]

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

[keeon]

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

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Originally Posted by Jbluntz

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.

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.

[acewondersx]

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.

[imjustme]

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

[imjustme]

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.

[incniu]

I agree with you!



Donot sell too much.. in a short time!

Originally Posted by imjustme

Yes. The limit is 10 items, SOLD and ACTIVE, not ended. So you can have:

3 Sold + 7 Active
1 Sold + 9 Active
8 Sold + 2 Active

etc.

In my opinion, this is how an eBay account should be run anyways. Sell 10 items, then let the feedback come in, then sell more. Nothing wrong with that. If you sell 100 items on a brand new account, you're bound to get suspended quite fast. This limit will actually help eBay sellers, trust me.

[imjustme]

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

If your eBay account is less than 90 days old, there may be limits on the number of items you can sell. Most items on eBay don't have limits, but when listing certain items, as a new seller you'll only be able to list a few at a time.

Once you've been a seller for over 90 days and have a proven track record of providing excellent customer service and following eBay's rules and policies, these limits will be removed from your account. Since the limits are automatically removed, you don't need to do anything else.

[lagoonclub]

Automatically removed, awesome.

[incniu]

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

Originally Posted by Jbluntz

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.

[jerry]

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!

[First Edition]

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

[jerry]

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.

[imjustme]

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.

[holymoly]

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.

[jbluntz]

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...

[imjustme]

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.

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Im about to go make 10 now, lol.

[eternity4u]

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

[jbluntz]

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!!!!!!!

[First Edition]

It's a rolling 30 days....

[jbluntz]

Not when I just checked it wasn't, under "all selling activity" it shows my Jan. limits have been renewed and just sold 10 items a week ago, haven't checked the other 39 yet but w/ 40+ accts. who cares anyway lol