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Stealth help
 

Hello, can someone help me with the following please:

1. When do I link a new stealth account to paypal? Do I attach it straight after opening the account or do I wait until I am ready to list an item?

2. Increasing selling limit from 10/25, recently it's been taking me to page to verify my name & address, I follow the process & it loads for a few seconds & comes back telling me to have a letter/pin sent to my address! Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong as stealth accounts I opened months ago didn't have this issue when requesting a higher seller allow ance.

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I link the PP to the EB as soon as I make it

To get the increase from 10 to 25 you usually just need to link your PP with a bank account and verify it.

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Thank you for the response. I always make the ebay after the PP is fully verified. Any ideas why I can't get the increase? Does eb do a credit check like PP?

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Neither EB or PP do a credit check. They do a check on the electoral roll, this only has a baring on lifting the EU £1900 limit though.

There is a fault on the EB site atm, which means its not always coming up with the 'link to veriffied PP' options. Give it a few days and try agian

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Had the letter sent to a few of my accounts but they have been doing that for a while, I think it was after google started it a couple of years ago.
The letter comes to the address and you just add the pin to your account and most of them have jumped from 10 to 100.

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This depends what type of ebay account you create. The letter with PIN is the "norm" on business accounts. On personal accounts, it happens about 1 in every 100 accounts (well that's the ratio I have experienced).

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Never opened a business account so I must just be unlucky.

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I have a theory that it may be postcode related. Were all your accounts created under a similar postcode?

The last time I got a letter / PIN when requesting higher limits, I created a completely different stealth account at a similar postcode and it got the same letter / PIN request.

I'd be interested to hear what your experience is.

Cheers

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yeah I always stay in my own area, so the post code could be the link.

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Cheers for that.

These types of thing are never random so it would make sense that certain postcode groups are selected for the PIN / letter.

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Interesting, not ever noticed this, but its been a very long time since I have had a PIN needing to be sent to the address

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The accounts are personal & spread around a large geographical area. Do I request a higher limit soon as I've listed the first item or do I list all 10 then try?

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Your best off (IMO) only reguesting higher seller limits when you have got the bank account verified on PP and you have been selling for at least a month

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I only ever make an EB account once the PP has a bank account attached & a VCC. If it helps I usually list the first item after 2 weeks of browsing/bidding/messaging. I will try requesting a month after the first sale.