How to Avoid Suspension - My Experience!!

goldenkey · #1 11-29-2010

Hey everyone,

So here is a little contribution on how to avoid limitations/suspension from ebay from my experience.

IF YOU DONT WANNA READ THE HISTORY JUST SCROLL DOWN TO LESSON LEARNED

**This may be applicable to paypal as well**

I had this account since 2005 both ebay and paypal but low feedback and limited activity until I got into ebay selling before finding this forum a few weeks ago

Started selling everything went well for about 15 transactions (my items were in the range of 120 - 250 electronics). So anyways got stupid put some up and sold some vero items which is not the reason I got limited but I will get to it later.

Overnight sold for about 1.5k legit and non legit. Few hours later got suspended. I refund last 5 transaction (legit + non legit) to avoid cases opening when they dont see the listing). Few days later paypal limited.

I sent them documents ebay got restored paypal not.

NOW HERE IS WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM EBAY

Even if your account has been in activity since 99 Ebay new prevention measure I guess will limit your account at one point or another for wtv reason even if you legit or not as most of you already know.

Now the punch line. When I have received my welcoming back letter from ebay they told me they have set a limitation of 2000$ monthly/renewable every month sales and that if I wish to raise the limit to please contact them.

Additionally what I realized is before I made my last 5 sales which got me suspended my total monthly sales were almost 2000$ like 1923$

LESSON TO LEARN

If you have never went above 2000$ in monthly sales and want to avoid getting a suspension out of nowhere call ebay or email with a plan of expansion and be ready to provide what ever they will ask for.

You will obviously need to provide information to show them you are not a jokeroo so at the very least expect

-id (driver license, statements of cc or bank, etc)

- supplier information (IMPORTANT if you sell many items only 2-3 products necessary)

This last bit of info saved me honestly many people overlook this fact. Show them 1-2 legit suppliers no need to send them 100 invoices.

Anyways this will help raise your limit beyond 2000$ and avoid you immediate or early suspension. I'm sure they will come back down the road but this is a start for any one getting into the biz.

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