15 Year Platinum Ebay Powerseller Dumped Yesterday

[newjerseymax]

Welcome! Yes it is possible depending on your TIME, which is always an issue....

If you have the patience and willingness to open many ebay/paypal accounts, keep them organized and safe then anything is possible

Personally I prefer 2-3 Large accounts and work on smaller accounts in meantime. Seems like they all go down eventually if aggressive.

[markflood]

You also got wait for the account limits, you can start with 10 per month, and 90 days they increase ,Yes it takes time, I had account limit start with 100 items per month, and work my way up to 1000 item per month and $30,000 in month(never get near that since I spread sales accounts).
Its important that you reach those limits every month, like lets say they give 100 per month, you reach, so they give you reason to increase it. (increase are automatic, no need to call to ask)
I never reach my new limit but do what sandyD says spread your sales across accounts.
Key is to sucess
1. Never link yourself, being 100% means 100% stealth
2. Start slow
3. Spread Sales
4. Grow the account slow, takes time to increase limits
5. Ship fast, no bull, never be greedy, being lazy not even one time!, few negatives, or low shipping marks = warning one month then possible ban after 3 months.
6. If account lost, like selling restriction, never ask for it back, because it could link your other accounts. That why you have stealth, so losing one didn't give you a heart attack.
7. Ebay don't care if you 10 items seller or million dollar seller, they treat everyone the same, you screw up, bye bye.
8. Don't sell vero, you may get one copyright warning, never sell that item again the rest of life, if so, ban.
9. Customer is always 1000% right, If seller complains about item, like damage, or bent in little ways, always offer big discount or replacement free of charge, why, he can leave a negative, or low experience on feedback, this can make $20 item causing $1000s in damages the next month, like below standard, and causing you can list per month reduced, account can go bye bye, On ebay you have to be 100% perfectionist. Means answer every question, shipping fast, reasonable shipping cost, and good commutation.
10. Repeat all the steps, everyday, every week, every month.

I learned from here from 2 years ago, Its more than just stealth to learn. If you want to last years. I have lost one account, and still have many 2 year old accounts. (I still learn things today on this forum)
THANKS
also another tip: have a back up account for the back up.

[joew8989]

First of all let me say there are a few members on this forum that are pretty arrogant. You just met a few of them.
Second to answer your question ( I hate it when I ask a question, and get a response totally unrelated to what I asked. Its like I'm talking to a government official) yes you can do 750k a year on a stealth account. It will take about 2 years to do that on one account.
You are going to have to open many accounts early, and whittle them down over time.

Last Id like to say there are plenty of helpful people and sellers on this forum. Don't give up because you met a few pompus ones. Also the stealth guide is worth the time and money. I'm not a shill for this aspkin guy, (ive never talked or IM'd him. Im just an honest forum member who feels indebted to this forum, and I feel empathy for sellers lke yourself.

[markflood]

Originally Posted by joew8989

First of all let me say there are a few members on this forum that are pretty arrogant. You just met a few of them.
Second to answer your question ( I hate it when I ask a question, and get a response totally unrelated to what I asked. Its like I'm talking to a government official) yes you can do 750k a year on a stealth account. It will take about 2 years to do that on one account.
You are going to have to open many accounts early, and whittle them down over time.

Last Id like to say there are plenty of helpful people and sellers on this forum. Don't give up because you met a few pompus ones. Also the stealth guide is worth the time and money. I'm not a shill for this aspkin guy, (ive never talked or IM'd him. Im just an honest forum member who feels indebted to this forum, and I feel empathy for sellers lke yourself.

Yes its possible, have many stealth account you can do it in a year, but for one account, Its gong take long time for it to get from 10 items per month to 100, then to 1000, in my experience it took less than a year to get 1000 items per month, but having more than one stealth you can get there faster,spreading sales for example. incase the main stealth goes down, you dont have to start over, but don't know what your 2 employees going to say..

[rsot]

It will take time to get back to the high level of sales OP...just the nature of the game

[ebayyounexttuesday]

Originally Posted by rsot

@OP, is your Amazon account with the 6k in it still able to be logged in? So just waiting out the suspension period?

Yes that's correct

[BigCJ]

Originally Posted by joew8989

First of all let me say there are a few members on this forum that are pretty arrogant. You just met a few of them.
Second to answer your question ( I hate it when I ask a question, and get a response totally unrelated to what I asked. Its like I'm talking to a government official) yes you can do 750k a year on a stealth account. It will take about 2 years to do that on one account.
You are going to have to open many accounts early, and whittle them down over time.

Last Id like to say there are plenty of helpful people and sellers on this forum. Don't give up because you met a few pompus ones. Also the stealth guide is worth the time and money. I'm not a shill for this aspkin guy, (ive never talked or IM'd him. Im just an honest forum member who feels indebted to this forum, and I feel empathy for sellers lke yourself.

Not really a matter of being arrogant. People come to the forum, that is mostly free, and expect to be served like kings and queens.
We are not ex ebay employees, we do not get paid for our time and around 99% of the people that come here ask the same questions over and over again expecting an answer that will suite them when all they need to do is read around.

If someone asks you 20 times if they can make money on ebay, would you not get annoyed?

And the senior members here was merely telling the OP that he MIGHT want to rethink his strategy in the way he runs his business. At the end of the day, its up to the OP to either follow the advice, or toss it to the sea. We have had our share of both.

A simple fact is this: 99% of the time WE (the account owners) cause the links that bring us down.

The advice members give here is trying to get those in need to break down their tactics and come at ebay another way.

[ebayyounexttuesday]

Originally Posted by unkown5454

Donate all you want. You totally missed my point and don't care to listen much. Contradict what we recommend with VPS, that's your choice. You seem to be in a rush, so imminent failure is upon you to say the least.

Like I said, huge learning curve waits in the wings for you. If you don't listen, it only gets worse. You seem comfortable with 1% profit margins, so you shouldn't have any issues with frivolous spending and minuscule to nil results.

Your argument about ridiculously tiny margins is silly. You are comparing yourself to companies who make tens of billions of dollars in revenue selling low profit margin products. You pulled in $750K...which you more than likely rounded up. You lost two huge accounts on the biggest e-commerce sites in the world within just a few months time frame. Your arrogance with the st/ealth ways is childish.

? I introduced myself and provided a clear picture of my situation. I have no clue what your talking about contradicting vps I'm assuming this is a deflection but here is a verbatim breakdown of your reply to my introduction:


1) "First, no offense," -ie I'm about to offend you (Wow, quite the inviting first words to an introduction huh?)

2) "but %1-10 profit on $750K is absurd" Ok, so it begins with mocking my business model and insulting my business sense.

3) "I would never work for such small profit" -demeaning, mocking, condescending

4) There are people on here killing what you made on $750K and only selling $100-$150K. -demeaning, condescending

5) So, it's time to really rethink your business altogether in my opinion. -criticizing, demeaning

(Kind of shocking huh? Nevermind being civil or god forbid polite or even friendly, but 5 statements into one reply and literally every single word and statement is a direct insult.)

6) Donations on EB are a complete joke -(Wow, really? In response to my mention of animal welfare donations?) -mocking, criticizing, demeaning

I simply don't have time to waste debating nonsense so I just wont dignify future comments from you with a reply but best of luck to you unkown5454

[GreenBean]

TIME OUT............

move onwards.

Intro was made.

Comments made that were OTT.....

Go onwards doing eBay Stealth which is the name of the forum game.

Good Luck to ALL

[ebayyounexttuesday]

Originally Posted by Sandy D

I did not say I did better numbers. And no one really cares about your numbers.


What stands out is the fact you lost both platforms in a short period of time and something you did caused it.

What I said was I have been selling on ebay and amazon and never lost an ebay and an amazon back to back ever. In fact, never lost an amazon account and have not lost an ebay account for more then 3 years.

I did not say you were doing anything wrong with profit margins either. I said whatever you did caused both platforms to go down so something you did caused this to happen. I merely was telling you whatever you did to cause this issue needs to be thought out before you attempt a go at it again. Why do all the work and end up back at the same place?

If they are totally unrelated what many of us is trying to tell you is whatever caused this issue needs to be addressed.

If you are not here to learn then what are you here for as we ALL learn from each other and grow.

No one is slamming you here and none of these posters feel any competitive issues with you at all.

Just because someone pointed out those low profit margins does not mean they meant it as an attack.

Chill a bit, we cannot help you if you tell us only half of what the issue that caused both platforms to go down are.

Thanks Sandy. I actually did explain exactly why in my introduction. Here's what you said that I think may have unintentionally come across the wrong way..

"So you lost your Amazon and Ebay accounts both close to the same time period? Re think what you are doing because that is a rarity to loose both of those so close to each other." -I suppose if you didn't read my post with the details of why I got banned this could be construed as constructive criticism. But the next one ...

"If you are not willing to listen to those here who have been successful then your road is going to be flooded real quick -I'm not sure what gave you the impression I'm not willing to listen so this eludes me but I felt it was a terrible insult to my character and simply baseless.

And then the last comment, again after just introducing myself with one post explaining the reason I was banned,

"Losing both platforms together tells me you did something very wrong."

I think I just felt a little less than welcomed especially after the 'warm welcome' I received from the first members reply, and the sentiment I took away from your reply was "Greetings, welcome to the forum. It's your fault your here, you don't listen, and I don't believe the post you just wrote explaining the reason for the ban."

You seem like a nice person and maybe your post just came across differently than you intended. Hopefully we can move forward in a positive direction.

[markflood]

Okay, when are you going make your first stealth account? because i can be time consuming ...

[ebayyounexttuesday]

Originally Posted by markflood

Okay, when are you going make your first stealth account? because i can be time consuming ...

Well I bought a 100/5000 account created in my area from a trusted source who uses VPS and says using the VPS eliminates the need for all the cloaking by user name changing and cookies, etc. etc. I did notice that only VPN is mentioned in the guides here so I'm a bit unsure being new to stealth. But the way its explained to me the vps seems like a no brainer. Someone else mentions that vps gets banned a lot in the us but im not sure how they'd figure that out if the vps ip is within 50 miles of the account address. I'm waiting to receive this account and was assured that I don't need to be concerned about any cloaking with vps so I'm not really sure yet what I'm in for in terms of set up time ahead of me. I hope this person is right!

I hear vps is more expensive but then I see it can be had for $10 a month and also is offered free with some accounts like this first one I bought. I really want to set up 10 amazon and 10 ebay accounts as a foundation but not sure if Ill need a different vps for each account (I assume so?)

You know you get one person who is experienced telling you one thing and another person who's experienced telling you something else, all with good intentions and you become unsure whats right.

PS: I'm interested in getting some aged accounts w feedback if anyone can offer a solid in my area in the US -pm me.

And I'm sorry sandy and unknown for snapping back at your comments I'm just naturally on edge after all this. I invested all my money into upgrading my shipping operation thinking I'd have plenty more next week and now barely have enough money to pay next months rent and literally nothing else coming in.

[JamesNorth101]

A VPS that costs just $10 a month is also very unlikely to be good enough I'm afraid. When it comes to VPS the more expensive the better.

In the US you have much much better option. Using a dongle is far easier and a lot cheaper. Keeping cookies separate is also very simple, it just a case of changing user accounts on your computer and takes about 20 seconds. Keeping track of IP address is also simply and takes 10 seconds.

Your time would be well spent taking a few days to read as much as you can in the forum. When it comes to stealth knowledge is power.

[GreenBean]

LOL $10 a month. Good grief

[ebayyounexttuesday]

sound advice. I'm sure I will have plenty of questions so I really do value all your opinions and help.

[ebayyounexttuesday]

Originally Posted by Greenie

LOL $10 a month. Good grief

The one --- offers he says comes with the vps and because amazon free tier offers it free he passes it along to buyers free. Whats the deal with cheap vps? Poor bandwidth /connections/low ram etc?

[JamesNorth101]

Originally Posted by ebayyounexttuesday

The one --- offers he says comes with the vps and because amazon free tier offers it free he passes it along to buyers free. Whats the deal with cheap vps? Poor bandwidth /connections/low ram etc?

You really need to re-evaluate who you are buying your account from. Misinformation is being given.

[ebayyounexttuesday]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

You really need to re-evaluate who you are buying your account from. Misinformation is being given.

Oye vey. Give me the dirt.

[GreenBean]

He just did.

Re-read what was written.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by ebayyounexttuesday

Oye vey. Give me the dirt.

Takes time but you will get there

[tmastermind]

Welcome to the forum, there's alot of posts here so I'm not going to go into all of it...

All I will say is I feel your pain but stealth can be a good means of protecting your business in the future. It will take time however and you certainly wont be able to quickly reach the kind of selling volumes either quantity or financially due to the fact that all new accounts now come with limits that need to be grown over time. However the beauty of stealth once you have mastered the basics of it is that you can create multiple accounts to help with those intiall restrictive limits.

You have already brought the guides which is good and gives all the bare bone basics but alot of info may not be prevalent any more hence this forum helps keep things up to date and provides the real meat to stealth mastery.

Read though the guides and if there is anything your stuck or need more details on specifically, feel free to ask away in this forum.

Good Luck!