Best set-up when selling volume

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by Overdone

Just when I thought I knew what I was going to do.

So, to recap......

I need to be logged onto all active accounts regularly through the day to provide decent customer service.

I need to sell over £1000 and 100 items a day.

Some are high risk items but I try to limit these.

Don't mind buying separate computers.

and in my dream scenario I want to do it all tomorrow

I need Liverpool to win Barclays Premier League too.

I want Liverpool to win.

What I want, and what I need very often do not match.

Relate that scenario to your new eBay Stealth career.

You need to refine your dream(s).

Trust me, I love paypal.

[Overdone]

Originally Posted by GreenBean

I need Liverpool to win Barclays Premier League too.

I want Liverpool to win.

What I want, and what I need very often do not match.

Relate that scenario to your new eBay Stealth career.

You need to refine your dream(s).

Trust me, I love paypal.

So could I just not get a few current selling accounts from people I know where decent limits are in place. It would be like you picking a decent team to support that are going well instead of Liverpool

I know of various sellers moaning about ebay and ready to quit as the seller has all the power (the usual moans). I am sure I could buy out a couple of accounts and integrate my stuff over. Is that not a good way if I know a fair bit of history on what that seller has been doing?

[JamesNorth101]

Are they also going to be givng you access to their bank account and their PayPals?

As I said before, buying from anyone who is not Aspkin approved is generally not going to end well as they are not purpose created stealth accounts. It will just lead to issues.

[Overdone]

I do understand what you are saying. Just trying to workout both a long term and short term strategy. I plan to build on Amazon further which will help the losses on building stealth accounts on ebay as all is fully legit on there. No problems thus far and playing it safer on there. It's missing my Xmas sales which I am going to struggle to let go on. If I need to burn a bank/paypal/ebay account then that would be okay if I get the expected turnover. The other side of Xmas I can build slowly.

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by Overdone

So could I just not get a few current selling accounts from people I know where decent limits are in place. It would be like you picking a decent team to support that are going well instead of Liverpool

I know of various sellers moaning about ebay and ready to quit as the seller has all the power (the usual moans). I am sure I could buy out a couple of accounts and integrate my stuff over. Is that not a good way if I know a fair bit of history on what that seller has been doing?

Yes, but I know my Liverpool.

You appear to not be grasping what to do with ebay and running stealth accounts.

There's no easy fix, regardless of the amount of money you want to make.

An account being used by another person will raise big flags with paypal/ebay.

IP differences, access to addresses, bank accounts are but a few of the issues.

[GhostWhoWalks]

If I was OP I wouldn't deal with a VPS. I had 45 of these and got rid of them this month. When a problem comes it's crappy, at times down for 3 to 12 hours. With as much money as you making OP I would not invest in a dongle either or tethering with a phone. It's time consuming at times to load pages, at times faster etc. Also if you want a newer IP just turn off the modem for 30 seconds+ or reset it and voila good to go with another IP. But keep it simple try not to rely on cheap things. Just my advice. Like I said for the money your making on one account don't go cheap on it. Or get an expensive VPS 30 pounds per month or 20 at least. And not the top companies in the search results that are known and flagged by others.

I would just call up the Internet provider you have and get a 2nd line, or get another company with another line and a cheap laptop 15 inch screen for dirt cheap brand new these days. Just use it to print postage, or answering emails. Keep it clean no other websites to log in just ebay and paypal. NOTHING ELSE! Maybe Auctiva as a 3rd site, and the one you use to upload your pictures online for hosting. THATS IT! keep it virus clean.

And put Thunderbird on one computer you run daily when online so you know when you got questions and orders up to the minute without opening up each laptop.

VPS - when they are slow or down it's terrible. When you got orders to process, or open cases, or questions it can be very stressful etc. Can result in so slow that it will take you half hour to do a simple 10 second task at times.

Don't go cheap with the amount of money you make, plus you don't want to risk these accounts with reused IP that might be flagged already and take a big risk.

So pay for another line mate.

This is based on 3 accounts you wanted to do.

Or turn on and off the router modem to get a newer IP used firefox portable on a memory stick. Probably cheaper way to go. But if I had figures like yours and the account was used by someone else and has so many red flags don't add on to it.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by Overdone

Some are high risk items but I try to limit these.

Follow tips of the other posters on your account setup. As for your selling of high risk items....that could be the kicker that will do you in

[GhostWhoWalks]

Some are high risk items but I try to limit these.

Try to limit these? Why not get rid of it for another stealth account don't risk your 30k to 45k a month bro, not worth it! Unless this is 60% of your income on the account then you got a HUGE problem cause once it goes down you'll need 20 to 40 accounts just to make up for it and a lot of work. Since you are from the UK.

[Dini]

At the level the OP is trading he should be considering the use of selling tools that works via API

I am sure Linnworks should sort out the OP's problem

Open a number of Stealth accounts and manage them using Linnworks.

Linnworks could be used for Order Management, Shipping Management and Inventory Management across all the stealth accounts.

Then you can use Reply Manager or Xsellco Unity to manage customer service / queries.

You rarely have to log into the stealth accounts if you have such a set up in place.

[GreenBean]

@ Dini

Nice one.

Sound advice which is so practical.

[rsot]

XSellco Unity is a wonderful utility. The steps you have described dini may not last long for OP if he sells high risk

[Play]

@Overdone - Been reading all your posts and my advice to you is this... forget this holiday season, start preparing for the next!

You rush into this one, you could create a catastrophe.

Be patient, stealth takes time, start building your knowledge on stealth, and start preparing slowly for next year.

A successful stealth account(s) requires patience and perseverance.