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NEW eBay Selling Limit - PP Bank Verified did not Raise Limit
 

The other day I tried to raise my eBay selling limits. Usually all you have to do is click on the eBay raise limit link, and if you are PP bank verified it will give you an increase to £3500.

Not this time...

First time I have ever seen it. eBay said you need to confirm your address in the postal system. They said they would send out a letter to my address with a PIN and then I have to enter that to up the limits.

From eBay:

"Request higher selling allowances
To sell more on eBay, confirm your address through the postal service.
Here's how it works:
Review your name and address.
We'll mail a letter with a confirmation code to your address.
When you receive the letter, you go to the selling allowances section in My eBay to complete the confirmation."

Question is, has anyone else seen this problem and if so, what would you do?

(The eBay and PP account is in mint condition, never used before previously or linked.)

Was this a business account or a personal one?

I had a business account which wouldn't raise automatically last week, but just had to call.

It was a personal account. It did not say anything about calling them, just this letter thing. Have you ever seen the letter requested to raise limits before?

maybe this is the new process:mad2: lets hope not

Raised limits last week using the normal link and it was fine as the p/p was fully verified.

Is your address genuine or a variation on a genuine one i.e. adding an apartment number or similar?

I would hazard a guess that there is something not quite right about it and it has been possibly linked/flagged because of this.

Double check everything before you set up new accts and most importantly make sure you have access to the address.

I recall a few years ago that when setting up an Ebay business account instead of having to add a debit / credit card they would verify you by sending out a letter to your business address with a PIN code printed in the letter which you then had to input on a page on your ebay account to verify your business was at the address. It sounds similar to that.

As long as you have access to the address where the letter is going to be sent to I dont see how its a major problem, it actually sounds a lot simpler than some of the other verification requests that ebay / paypal make.

Let us know how it goes though as if its some new development its something we'll all need to be prepared for.

I just got my limits lifted without any problems. I agree with NoneOther on this one. It seems a red flag has been sprung somewhere and they just want to double check.

If you havnt got access to the address i would let the account cool off for a couple of months and go back to it at a later date and see how it stands.

Yes, that makes sense. I will take it easy on that account and check back later on.

I have never seen it like that before, so just wondering also if anyone else has ever seen it like that.

Just thought it may have been some new system in place. Hopefully not!

23 days ago this started to happen. You are now the 5th UK person.:ballchain:

I got this too, good job its the mother in laws address that it will be sent to!

Jeez......

To sell more on eBay, confirm your address through the postal service.

Here's how it works:
Review your name and address.
We'll mail a letter with a confirmation code to your address.
When you receive the letter, you go to the selling allowances section in My eBay to complete the confirmation.

First lesson learnt. I registered with an address I don't have access to as I wasn't planning on using it for buying.

anyone else had this issue?

please post if you have and let us know if you have any idea if you have been flagged in anyway

vero...address alteration...disputes....vcc added....let us know please

I would bet a £ to a pinch of s**t it has something to do with name/address variations, more so address. Can't see why else this would be. If the address comes up on public records the all is good, no need for them to check any further. If not then sending something in the mail t verify most makes sense.

We need clarification on whether these were real or variation addresses.

To start us off, my recent experience of raising limits was on a genuine address.

so it was genuine address but different name

Yes genuine address although name would not appear on public records but limits raised no problem

okay thanks bro

so address was genuine and you had no issues

Thats correct.

Geeze. How about a BIG flag blathering everywhere what is happening. :doh:

If my hunch is correct then it would appear that e/b don't trust p/p's AVS check when verifying p/p accounts. I wonder then if p/p have something new up their sleeves of checking addresses on new accounts.

Got to keep an eye out for any strange goings on over at p/p now I reckon.

definitely something different going on as I just verified my account through pp but im still limited to only selling 10 items a month, this used to jump upto 100! :(

Have you clicked on the "raise limits" link on e/b?

I had to do this the other day and it then switched to p/p for login and after that it was fine and the limit increased.

Also is the address on the account genuine or a variation of the real address?

Yea it done it automatically as soon as i logged in to verify bank through paypal which I did.

It wouldn't let me sell anything at all till I verified account now it is only letting me sell 10 items

Perhaps it will reset later. I did have one where it did not increase until the start of the next month, so maybe the case on this one.

What about the address?

Are you listing items for sale for the first time or have you sold anything on it before asking for the limits to be raised?

I had bought and sold a couple of items before I asked for the raise. Perhaps something in that?

but it was strange that it wouldnt let me sell anything at all till i verified account normally you can start out selling 10 till bank is verified which then goes upto 100

Had you bought anything through the account?

the address is a real one but with ⊗⊗⊗⊗ name
on this account it wouldnt let me sell anything till i verified bank which is a first as I said it normally allows you to sell 10 items

no ive never bought anything before when setting up accounts and ive set up a few as i said this was a first, things must be changing :(

Ok thanks.

So it's not an address issue like the OP possibly has, so not sure if it's maybe a one off in your case.

Personally I always buy a few bits here and there before starting to sell very slowly. Once I get a few f/b in I then look to raise the limits because I figure it's probably how a normal newbie on e/b would do it and so far so good no issues with raising limits.

If the letter thing is going on as a new procedure folks will have to be very careful on how their new accounts are being set up.

Where I use an address variation I always test it first before registering to make sure RM deliver to it ok. I then buy a few bits and ask the seller to send recorded and add the tracking info to e/b. May be overkill but as far as e/b are concerned stuff I'm buying is being delivered to that address without any problems so shouldn't raise any flags.

guess will have to see how it goes :(

And the 'enemy' now know they have us all rattled - as GB says - how about we all wave a big flag
:argue:

I just started a new account.
It has a selling limit of 10 items and 1,000 USD.
It also has a button where that i can request higher limits.

Is this normal for a new account?

Everthing is verified and the address is a real house, But i have no access to this address in any way.

This is the UK we are talking about.

Your limits seem pretty standard for the US though.

I've got this issues as well, here is my story.

I've opened up a pp account after my original account with real info on it got shut downed(both pp and eb).

This new pp account was used with my gf's name and with the address variation of that used in the one that got suspended (eg. 1 xx road and 1a xx road).

The eb account was a few months old which was created by my gf herself and got 0 feedback on it.

pp verified all ok with real cc and ban details match the name and info on the pp acc.
so is the eb acc.

eb seller limit is 10item/gbp650 per month with this pp account (all limits lifted)
than I request an increased seller limit and they send me a letter to verify my address.
got that mail few days ago and verified my eb acc and now 100 item/gbp3500 permonth.

the thing is that this eb/pp acc was doen with out any stealth in mind because it was all done before i found out this forum and the ULTIMATE STEAHTH BOOK that was sooooo useful for me.

I think this account is considered infected but I still do small amount of selling on this acc currently. (with all the stealth measurement in mind to quarantine this infected acc with other new stealth acc i created/got)

Still waiting for my new bank acc and details to arrive, and will try to get my other stealth pp acc limit lifted and see if i will still got this letter verification thing.

I've got two accounts with this stranglehold on it at the moment. Both with bank accounts added and verified on paypal but still 10 items only and letter request when I try and up the limits.

Both are genuine addresses (I don't have access to - doh!) with ⊗⊗⊗⊗ names.

Made a new seller account this weekend. private account about 4/6 weeks old, verified p/p attached and NO LISTING LIMITS imposed.

Go figure:dance:

You guys are best off staying within the selling limits without asking for an increase and let eBay increase them automatically as you get feedback.

I think I'm with you on that one imjustme ;)

imjustme makes a valid point - juggling several accounts

The last thing you want to have is eBay taking a close look at your account, which is exactly what they do when you call or send documents to raise limits.