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Do all new seller accounts have selling limits.
 

I have a new seller account, with no feedback. Had listed items sales totalling $1300 but now when I have started receiving feedback for items shipped (3 feedback till now) eBay has seller limits on my account $500 per 30 days.

Listed items on eBay US.

Does ebay have this limit on all new seller accounts or do they go if the seller account is a month or more old?

Many new seller accounts do. When you search the forum, you will see that these limits tend to go away in 90 days.

I did research but did not know if all go through this and also do the 90 days start when the first item was listed?

So after 90 days from the time I listed the first item , I should be able to list from this account and till then create new accounts with new names to be able to list?

If I get 10+ positive feedback on this account, should I be able to list

Is this right.

Get more accounts avoid the limits...

I have an account that is 110 days into selling, 700.00 or 20 items limit? other new accounts I make get 20 items or 2000.00? :doh:

I agree with newjerseymax. The more accounts you have, you won't have to worry about this. Not all your accounts will have selling limits, which will help you.

Ebay letting the limits random , between 500 to 2000$ and 10 to 20 items.After 90 days My account is allowed 20 item for 700$ now.and another 2000$ with 20 as well.

No they don't. The problem with ste alth is that the ways they can check on you are very limited. A very good friend of mine who deals in second hand farm equipment signed up last week on PP and EB. All of his info is good and he placed his VAT number with EB and PP for cheaper fees. He is also on the electoral role and has his own website that has been running for some years. He currently has 105 listings that are all over £50. He has not been asked for photo id at all and there are no limits on his account.:pop2:

I recently created a second account using the info off the first account which had a 10 item $500 limit.
I listed a home improvement book in the home & garden section to test the waters. To my surprise, there was no limit on the amount of listings I could post, at least that I was aware of.
I have failed several times since then, when trying to duplicate it though.

Just to let people know I never had any selling limits placed on any of my accounts until recently.

I found a niche product and I am doing extremely well with it, selling anywhere from 25-40 per day everyday for about 2 weeks.

Then here comes an actual nice ebay message about how well I have done with very good performance, shipping etc and they are going to place a 500 item 12,000 limit on my account so they can monitor to see if I can actually handle that much business and still maintain these standards.

Congrats. That's an amazing limit. Is this account s t e a l t h?

Yes it is stealth.

I believe it comes down to the products, category etc you are listing in.

I am finding out the more I play with it some will get limits, some wont, some get small and some get larger. Never a constant thing.

Like others above said the trick to to make accounts in massive numbers to avoid any issues if you have the products to sell.

I see that everyone telling selling limit of first month depends on what you've listed.
But as i observed the selling limit is placed just after you registered as a ebay seller and before a listing.So how could it be possible it depends on listing spesification? can someone explain.Or Are they lifting on second month due to listings?

They have limits in place for all new accounts made after october of 2010, if you want limits lifted you have to call or verify your info so you must have some luck or your full of hot air. I have created over 100 items this past year in numerous catagorys which no such luck, just some sellers accounts I have pre 10/10 that have no limits at all.

Most new accounts get 10 items and 2000.00 in sales. Only other limits I have seen are 500.00 or 10 items, or an increase in items by 10 and 700.00 a month or 20 and 2000.00 etc..

I have a 6 month old buyers account I turned into a sellers account that I'm using to sell a few books. I'm currently on a 10 item limit of $1000. This must be a very risky category :)

e-books are fun :)

^^^ Haha...pwned.

Used books.

Yes I am aware of that the point of my post was to let the other poster know that I am have no limits on any account old or new until this account and the limits are extremely high and good.

As of this account I have not received a single limit on any account old or new for some reason.

I just did very well with this account mentioned and they hit me with a limit I think we could all love to see on a newer account.

How can i check what my selling limit is?

Click ALL Selling button left of the page on My E bay if you are registered as a seller member.

With a niche item you say, interesting.

when you sell second hand stuffs, they are less risk than the new ones. So it's easy to understand.

Try to deliver ontime, treat buyer very well and your limit will be gone after 90 days

I have 5.0 rating and sold over 60 items after 90 days. But selling limits just increased 10 more :)

I just created a new stealth account and I got an instant limit upon creating the account for $1,000/10 items per month.

That is an awesome limit... for 2009 or 2010.

Seems rather pointless to have it in 2011 when they're going to nail you for SSN after $19k.

My last 4 a ccounts Ive created havent had any limits on them. There must be something to the process. All are v erified

To this point I havent had the 10/500 limit on any account.

My latest has a 10/2000 and the one before has 10/500 The one with 10/2000 I started higher priced items and the 10/500 listed cheaper items....

I have a question. If attempting to lift limits using questionnaire, does anyone know what happens if you answer incorrect? Is it no harm no foul or are you now on the radar?

The questionnaire goes away as an option for about 2 weeks. I recently passed mine on the 5th try.

What questionaire are you speaking of here?

did u get unlimited to 20 items within 90 days? I still have limited and its been over 90 days. on one account he says im making less than $100 a month, i was trying to start slow but now i think i think it has to do w money rather than the fb. i have 20+ fbs for all accounts.

Everyone who has their limits lifted, what do you sell, and whats your average earnings? Im beginning to think more and more has to do with the sales than fbs..all my 5 accounts has been 90+ days w around $100 each account and none has been lifted yet. And ive called for 1 account. He says im not making enough up to $500 is the problem. He lifted one account to 20 items..im not about to ask the other ones

You need to force limits in order to show you need to have more limit. After you can call them to explain your situation. I had an account with 20 item limits and when reached 20 have called them for lifting and done.

I heard limits automatically raise from 500/10 items a month ) if you link your paypal directly to your eBay account to collect it's fees. At least this is what some people are reporting

Did Yall just read what cruiserdaddy wrote?
How can s/he have no limits on any accounts created?

Hi

it depends greatly on what you are selling i think.

i very recently opened a new eb & pp verified seller acc someone before i was punished by eb and even heard about stealth.
The eb acc allowed me initially 100 items p/m - but i didnt know about the ebook rule and listed one :doh: - so they limited this account to 10 p/m for 3 months.

If that's the case, then it would be worth it, for us all to figure out what we should sell, on a new account, to avoid such limits, and then gradually slide in our desired items.

BTW, I'm over 90 days on a new legit account, and it still has a 10 item limit. I'm in the Lumber category....how on earth that can be high risk, is beyond me.

it's going to be trial and error - thats why the filling spreadsheets with all activities will help in the long run.

Brand name clothing - not just high-end, chain stores too like Top Shop & River Island I think, branded shoes, bags etc.
High-end cosmetics & branded fragrances.
ebooks that are incorrectly placed - ie inserted into the wrong category.
Software, electronics, phones etc
expensive items - that may cost pp money.
Jewellery of course - don't know about costume jewellery.


There must be many many more.


Lumber category?? What is the average cost of the items? If it's over God knows?... £50 maybe - perhaps pp would rather err on the side of caution.

I'm sure it's about how you present. If when you sign up they look at you and can see you've been in business a long time and you are just adding EB as another string to your bow they have no need to place limits.

If you are a new account with nothing on public record they will put the knowledge they get from reading forums such as this with what they know from their trends and place a limit.

IMO they know a lot more about stealth than we give them credit for and there is probably some little spotty faced nerd sitting in a windowless office that smells of BO and rotten feet that spends his whole day thinking up ways to frustrate us.
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