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Increase the selling limit eBay places on new accounts.
 

Hello,

First of all thanks to everyone on the forum that has helped me in the past.

I've had a stealth account for 93 days now and it is all running fine. PayPal is linked to eBay. PayPal is verified and funds have been added and withdrawn from the account. eBay account has 65 100% Positive feedback and the account has had 0 cases in the resolution centre. In total I have sold 87 items in the past 93 days.

I currently have a selling restriction of 50 items per month or a sterling figure of something like £650.

Ideally I would like the account to be free from any restriction so that I can list around a 1000 items. What is the best way to go about this?

Should I ring eBay to try and negotiate the limit since my account is now over 90 days and has had no negative feedback or buyer protection cases. Or should I wait a while longer.

Thanks in advance!:typing:

If you ring you could slip up and having your account banned as its a stealth account, I personal would rather carry on the way you are doing and wait for at least 3 months and look at all your options. maybe then ring them and show you have the feedback to cover your sales

hope that helps :)

Sounds like you have a solid business model. Rather than upscale you existing ebay account, open up more ebay accounts in proportion to the desired increase in sales.

How did you establish that you had a selling restriction of 50 items or £650 equivalent?

The reason i ask is cos i also have a listing restriction (not selling restriction) on one of my account but it doesnt tell me the exact limit. It only says i have reached my limit.
The msg i get comes up when i try to list and says i have reached my listing limit..

hi if you're not bank verified then you will have a selling limit of ten items a month... if you're not registered as a business seller then you can only sell 50 a month; hope this helps!

"you're not bank verified"

I am Business seller but not bank verified. What ebay will ask you to do to get bank verified on your account?
Is it like Paypal that they will debit money from your bank account and you have to tell them the 2 digit number? something like that? or more complicated?

I was under the impression that if you linked a fully verified paypal account to your ebay account, then all will be well and no selling limits would exist.
I have now seen that i have a selling allowance of 100 items a month courtesy of a new msg that came up when trying to list. The msg obviously give a number to call if you wish to do so and there is also a link labelled 'selling allowance'. When u click on this, it confuses you further by stating if you become verified, limits can be removed. The verification illustration given confuses paypal and ebay cos as far i understand, it amounts to duplication and may not even be possible (someone correct me if i am wrong).
It talks about entering your 2 small deposits from your bank statement onto paypal and then onto ebay.??

More stealth accounts>one big account

I've figured this out now and all my limits are going to be lifted in the next few days.

It isn't really sustainable to have several eBay accounts. You miss out on the reputation you would gain from having just one account and since I have an eBay shop you miss out on many discounts (listing fees, FVF's, PayPal charges etc)

You will have a selling allowance if you are listing high risk items such as mobile phones, expensive electronics etc. You will also have a selling allowance if your account is less than 90 days old.

Once your account:

- is fully verified (PayPal and eBay)
- is over 90 days old
- has an exceptional seller dashboard with all fees paid upto date
- has over 100 items sold with no Buyer Protection Cases opened
- has DSR's over an average of 4.8

...then your selling restriction will be removed.

By the way, I rang eBay to find out all this information and it took about 20 minutes of question after question for them to tell me.

:cheer:

ok, so how exactly are we supposed to get 100 items sold at a rate of 10 items per 30 days?

Selling Limitation
 

Ooowww...it can takes 10 months? Isn't it?

Could anyone explain?

How much your selling limit in first month
 

Just curious: how much your selling limit in the first month you start selling?

Business ebay sellers can sell 100 items every 30 days. As long as your verified. if not its only 10 items every 30 days (personal)

I have many new business acc's and can't get past the 10 items per month.

its probably different here in the UK. and also depends on what items you sell!

I set up a new account and could sell 100 items straight away. (vintage clothing)

what did you use to verify yourself if you didnt use bank account? how can you sell on it if not bank verified? is this possible??

Solution to increase limit from 10 items to 100
 

Please go to my account then click on Link Paypal account button and follow the steps to link the paypal account to your ebay and you will be able to sell 100 if that paypal is verified one

i have a few personal accounts with 100 selling limits, so i think it varies

Main problem in eBay is how to get rid of 100 items limit
 

I had one ebay ccount when it reached 100 items limit i went to the second account and then my both ebay suspended? is it good idea to leave one account with 98 items sold without touching the 100 items limits and getting flaged and move to next account ??? how to spread to multiple accounts to increase selling limits?

Please help me if you tried this
 

I had one ebay ccount when it reached 100 items limit i went to the second account and then my both ebay suspended? is it good idea to leave one account with 98 items sold without touching the 100 items limits and getting flaged and move to next account ??? how to spread to multiple accounts to increase selling limits?

could you update that the limits sucessfully lifted?

This is anecdotal

Limits are when they cannot find you on public records (most stealth I would think.) My reason for saying this is that my daughter has a brand new account, all set up with real information and she is on equifax and the electoral role. No limits at all. 42 items listed all starting at 0.99p. Not even a hint of anything

On business accounts Limited companies with bank accounts etc. do not get limits. This I know from something I did last week and now the person I organised it for has just listed 50 assorted items. No limits.

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the limit is for more than 100 items 42 items is not a problem

Give her time

Just stay below the 100 it will go away eventually, one day you will get an email.

Spreading on multiple accounts
 

Actually my question is that if i got Account A and i do not touch the 100 items limit and i sell 95 items and then move to 2nd one and sell 95 and so on .... it is safe? Any one tried this? as once i touched 100 iitems in first account and moved to second and my both accounts suspended ... so i am looking for a safe way to spread on multiple accounts safely without suspension as heppened to me last time ... as i think when you touch this 100 items limit, ebay flags it and do nto let you to sell on next one ...

You talking about two accounts linked to the same paypal or two accounts that are separate identities?

The best way is creating as many separate identities as you need to build all accounts gradually, without pushing any limits. You can have second accounts opened that are linked to the same paypal but make sure they do not sell the same stuff, as any switching back and fourth on linked accounts with limits seems to set off flags with ebay, unless you have left the first account alone for long enough for your DSRs scores to clear. Good or Bad

If you are in one of those categories that cause problems for sellers and have a lot of problem buyers or problem competitors then you need to have enough accounts so that you can move from any account and leave it alone for at least a year without it causing problems for your income.

hi mate, why was ur account suspended? i thought limits are per account per month and not per person per month.
what reason they gave for suspension.
also , i have a business ebay account and it doesnt let me list over 50 items per month , even though a verified paypal is attached .
but i have two ebay accounts, does it mean that ebay distributes selling limits amongst the number of accounts you have.. forexample, 100items per month / 2 accounts = 50 items /month/account ?
or its something else?

Multiple accounts linked to same paypal
 

I had multiple accounts linked to same paypal.

Ouch - don't do that again:nono:

You can use the same user accounts and many do on here but only if you have enough alias accounts to use to jump back and fourth between them.

There is one other thing that others could answer but may be something else to think about, which was in one of ebays changes they said if you get a complaint through ebay or paypal then it will show up on your ebay account.
What happens if you have two accounts linked to one paypal and you get a buyer complaint through paypal has anyone checked to see if both ebay accounts connected to that paypal get the hit?

Or those selling off ebay with websites or alternatives, if you get a complaint off ebay through paypal does it hit the connected ebay account?

But it does indicate that the link between ebay and paypal is growing if this is the case.

Why do I need prepaid card for paypal account? Thanks

any success so far?
 

As i know the selling limits or quota is assigned 1st of each month. If you registered your selling account in middle of month then yo have to wait about 2 weeks more until next month 1st comes ... could you please tell me it worked for next month start? were selling limits lifted?

I have a private EB selling account and sold 155 items in December , nothing has happened yet :juggle:

Hello. This may be a bit late to post but every bit of info helps. I too had the 650 limit. My limit is now 100 items/ something like £3,000. All I did was do what they suggested.... Do you not see a link to lift limits? The link is something like add paypal to your ebay etc.... I know you say you have linked them but I thought I had too, but hadn't. The next step for me is to raise from 100.... I now have no option but to call them and I'm in no rush too. I want to keep it steady.

BTW, the selling limit is placed in 3 ways, category based, selling limit in general and 1 other way or its something similar like that but they is a small way around it, think of it as a tip. Say you have 4 buy it now auctions, selling 25 each making that your 100 a month total. You can't list more but what you can do is... revise your ad and lessen the number for sale, say to 20.... you now have more items you can list.

So what I mean is.... while you cant actually raise the limits, you can still edit and sell more items so long as you don't list the maximum 100 items for example.

I know that may sound confusing but it is hard to explain.

I thought I would revisit this thread.

Can anybody verify that its 90 days good dsrs etc to get limits lifted on new accounts.

Has anybody called to get the limits removed say the 100 items with $5000 limit, what was asked in the telephone interview.

No, Thats seems to all have changed. There is no specific time period involved from what now appears to be happening. It seems to be based on what you sell and how well you fit the performance standards.

There have been reports of accounts that previously had no limits suddenly having them imposed again.

I have business accounts with 100 and 200 p.m. limits but I also have personal accounts with 100 and 200 limits.

There is no real pattern to it right now.

I tend to let them grow organically rather than request increases as I think it helps keep you under the radar. I reckon e/b start to take a closer look at what you're doing if you request increases to early.

DING!!!DING!!!DING!!!DING!!!

Today's winner.:cheer:

Minimize account scrutiny where possible.

all my accounts are the same and a few hopefully being lifted soon :)

Also, once your bank verified you can go into ebay request higher limits and will raise to 100/£3500... get a few accounts that can sell at that rate your in the money :)

Hi - Do you think its the best bet to just wait until ebay automatically increases limits?

I have a limit of 100 listings and a monetry value of 3500. Its the 100 listins I need more of.

I've sold 60 things over the last 2 months and ive had the account for several years but only made it a business account in janurary. The feedback score is at 90.

When do you think I could get the limit increased?