Have ebay reduced selling limit to 25 a month from 100 ?

[mellyuk80]

Just tried to reg 2 new accounts and on both of them when I went to raise the selling limits from 10 to 100 a month they only increased to 25 items/£750 a month which is absolutely useless

Anyone else regging new accounts got this ?

[derbydave]

yeah, same here

[they_screwed_me_too]

i have it on good authority that this is the future

[Elijah]

Idiots. This is just going to make people create more stealth accounts.

[turboman]

£750 will do me thats my rent and bills sorted

[SimpleX]

I hate the sound of this.

Has anyone been getting 100 items/month straight away this week?

[bigbill]

yes 25/£750 too this week, not ideal!!

[GrannyT]

Yikes

I get the impression that Ebay want business accounts rather than personal accounts. Their problems come from small foo-foo merchants dumping loads of foo-foo contraband and so they are going to make life very difficult until they can see what you are about.

A lot more variables are about to come into play I believe - these will include but not limited to the use of free email addresses, certain bank accounts, 'Bricks and Clicks' type businesses, linking e.commerce sites to users - the potential list is endless.

One thing is for sure IMO - the cost of building and running successful stealth operations is going to increase and the amount of work involved is going to increase. This will certainly weed out some of the 'chancers' but should not unduly affect the honest traders

Interesting times ahead and one thing is certain - it isn't going to get easier

[Stigger]

Buiness seller and personal buyers.

Nothing certian, you should know that more than most.

i think ebay allow stealth accounts to a point to keep figures up, if they really wanted to put a stop to it they could very easy, in t u.k anyway.

[GrannyT]

Oh I do TZ. The point I am making is that Ebay are wanting to control more and more of the operations being done on their site. From their perspective a new seller shouldn't need more than 25 sales - as I say, from their perspective - if you need more call in and talk to them but your case is stregnthened if your email address is sales@widgetsRus.com as opposed to KnobbyKnobrot@gmail.com

Little things that we currently take for granted one by one are going to be rendered ineffective IMO

That's not to say that there will not be workarounds but look at the situation today compared with say - 2 years ago. It's a lot lot harder now - and it aint going to get any easier

[GreenBean]

And the more it gets moaned about, the less time is applied to do the workarounds.

[crafty1]

I've just had the 25/750 limits but I am happy with that instead of the 100.

Just rotate the accounts and keep it simple

[NoneOther]

Originally Posted by GrannyT

Yikes

I get the impression that Ebay want business accounts rather than personal accounts. Their problems come from small foo-foo merchants dumping loads of foo-foo contraband and so they are going to make life very difficult until they can see what you are about.

A lot more variables are about to come into play I believe - these will include but not limited to the use of free email addresses, certain bank accounts, 'Bricks and Clicks' type businesses, linking e.commerce sites to users - the potential list is endless.

One thing is for sure IMO - the cost of building and running successful stealth operations is going to increase and the amount of work involved is going to increase. This will certainly weed out some of the 'chancers' but should not unduly affect the honest traders

Interesting times ahead and one thing is certain - it isn't going to get easier

Exactly right GT

I have posted my thoughts before on how e/b are steadily working towards the eradication of private sellers and most likely small/medium business sellers too.

Every new change they implement makes it more and more difficult for these types of sellers.

Rocky road ahead for lots of people.

[SimpleX]

Do you guys really think using free email services like gmail etc is something they scrutinize?

What would be an alternative email service to use?

[GrannyT]

Originally Posted by NoneOther

Exactly right GT

I have posted my thoughts before on how e/b are steadily working towards the eradication of private sellers and most likely small/medium business sellers too.

Every new change they implement makes it more and more difficult for these types of sellers.

Rocky road ahead for lots of people.

Unfortunately it isn't something people want to read and so it's a bit like the Emporers New Clothes

IMO Ebay are heading towards being a huge online shopping mall with recognised and niche players.

Reducing selling limits enables them to monitor everyones progress

Who would have believed they would impose selling limits 2 years ago?

[GrannyT]

Originally Posted by SimpleX

Do you guys really think using free email services like gmail etc is something they scrutinize?

What would be an alternative email service to use?

No I don't think that - but look at the way things are going.

If you were a legitimate business would it not be reasonable in this day and age to expect you to have your own domain name? Thus Sales@ Bladdybladdydah as opposed to G.Mail or yahoo

Think about it - as I always say - think outside the box at what may be coming rather than what is

[NoneOther]

Originally Posted by SimpleX

Do you guys really think using free email services like gmail etc is something they scrutinize?

What would be an alternative email service to use?

Everything is assessed and scrutinised by their risk management people.

Alternative email: set up a domain that relates to your business name and have your own email address that corresponds to that domain.

[Elijah]

Originally Posted by turboman

£750 will do me thats my rent and bills sorted

My weekly rent is more than that, lol (I live in central London). But this won't affect me at all.

[NoneOther]

Originally Posted by GrannyT

Unfortunately it isn't something people want to read and so it's a bit like the Emporers New Clothes

IMO Ebay are heading towards being a huge online shopping mall with recognised and niche players.

Reducing selling limits enables them to monitor everyones progress

Who would have believed they would impose selling limits 2 years ago?

My opinion is that should they achieve their goal it will eventually bite them in the a**e. Amazon have that market sewn up and will not let it go without a huge fight.

Additionally there is also the rumour of Google starting an auction site that would see huge numbers of e/b sellers jump ship in a heartbeat.

Should those two things happen I can see e/b caught between a rock and a hard place. With the power and money of those two giants squeezing them into obscurity.

Bring it on I say.

[GrannyT]

No - I disagree

IF and it's a big if - Google ever do launch an auction site Ebay will adapt and change again.

A conglomerate of that size, with Paypal as well, is not going to go away - they will do what they have to do but they will not get burned.

Also be careful what you wish for - you might just get it

[NoneOther]

You may be right GT but what a fight it would be.

There are many huge companies that have lost their market leading status by taking the wrong direction and losing their core market and customer loyalty and I don't think the e/b organisation are immune from that.

They are where the are now because they have a virtual monopoly. If they drive out the private and small businesses someone is going to come along and cater for that market, its to big a chunk of profit for someone to ignore. We all know the consequences of not looking after your customers, when they've gone, they're gone for good usually.

[SimpleX]

Originally Posted by GrannyT

No - I disagree

IF and it's a big if - Google ever do launch an auction site Ebay will adapt and change again.

A conglomerate of that size, with Paypal as well, is not going to go away - they will do what they have to do but they will not get burned.

Also be careful what you wish for - you might just get it

I agree with ya..