Forum

Is my account legit or stealth
 

Basically when I got banned from eBay 6 months ago I made a new stealth account but i used an address from a street grew up on and lived there for 20 years, Whilst I lived at this address i never had anything to do with eBay or paypal, it was only after I moved from this street I started selling on eBay.

And the number i used for the street does not even exist and I changed some of my first name but kept last name the same, when I tried to confirm personal details to lift the £1900 limit on paypal it passed the public data check.

The account is now 6 month old with 79 positive feedback, bronze powerseller and just the other day qualified for trs,

My question is that is this classed as a stealth account? or if eBay looked at it would they be able to see I've passed the public data check on paypal and treat this account as a legit, just wondering as I know it's not recommended but I'm thinking of calling eBay up for a selling increase as I've already had one via online chat and passed the questions they asked me but now there insisting i ring them up for an increase, what questions will be asked does anyone know? Thanks

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Legit or not you are still better off not ringing eBay. eBay do not see accounts as 'stealth' or 'legit'.

If you need to sell more create more stealths.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Would suggest to not push boundaries here.

You have an ebay account that is under the radar and working fine.

This is where you bite the bullet and allow the account to continue to mature.

Avoid exposure to ebay

Good Luck

:mod:

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Yeh the point I was trying to get at is that I've heard they ask you personal info like what year was your father born or what car does your parents drive & other stuff, is this true? if so on a stealth account I would fail but with this account I would know the answers,

What would the worse thing that could happen if I ring up?

And does anyone have any experience on what questions they ask?

Guys i appreciate your advice and agree with you's 100% but I'm willing to risk this account as I have many others that are similar so would appreciate any advice from anyone about ringing up.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

This happens in the USA more.


Your account gets banned.

What do you sell, have you had selling experience, how fast do you dispatch items, do you have a shop ect.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

I can understand paypal asking questions to verify you as you would have added this as security info when you opened your account

if you are able to list and sell carry on

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

All went well got an increase to 300-£4000 questions were all simple ones, they asked me about the 2 violations I had a while back ago which I forgot about and I just said they were personal items and I was new to ebay and didn't know I could not list them, they was fine with it and said that they can see I've not tried to relist them again and it's good that I listened to the warning I got and gave me a number to ring up in future incase I'm unsure if I can list a certain product, so good day for me cheers for advice guys I will put the questions they asked below incase anyone else was wondering.

Q,How's your account going in General is it doing ok?
A, great I've got 100% feedback and just qualified for trs.

Q,What products to you sell?
A, ********

Q,What's the average value of each item sold?
A, ££££££££

Q,How much quantity of stock do you have and want to list the coming month?
A, I have over a thousand items I could list

Q, Is it branded?
A, yes it's branded but not a very popular brand it sell's ok though.

Q,Do you have a supplier?
A, yes

Q,Can I get there name?
A, no f**k off you nosy get!! answered this one in my head, then gave them a random name that sounded English and he said oh is that a uk supplier you have then and I answered yes.

Q,,If I were to purchase an item from you now when would you dispatch it?
A, today if you purchased it before 3pm

Q,Are you a LLT company or sole trader?
A, sole trader

Q,Does anyone help you with your account?
A, no everything is done by myself.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

well done to you, sell well and keep dsr's high and negatives low

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Great post with listed questions.

You done well. Pleased for you, whats your course of action regarding quantity, you going to max them out or still take it easy

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Thanks, I've already maxed it out i have done since first starting on it I've got 4 listing on good till canceled each listing has around 15 vairiations and 4-5 of each listed in stock now, so can just let that run see where it gets me and if there's no increase in 30 days will give them a call again.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

hopefully will increase automatically rather than having to draw attention to your account

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Yeh if I'm lucky, don't like to draw attention to my accounts and wouldn't usually ring up but just needed a few extra sales and decided to take a chance on it and try and push it abit, big risk as it's my only trs account at the moment thankfully it paid off.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Do not do further calls and get attention to your account

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

I've called up to get selling limits increased over 40 times in the past 12 months. Twice I've been declined because I had only made 1 or 2 transactions, and only 3 occasion's have I been asked to send in invoices, and similar documents paypal get sent. I did, and 48-72 hours later my selling limits were increased.

Now you've passed the initial "review" as they call it, I'd not hesitate to call them again so long as your selling what you told them you sell when you initially spoke to them, feedback is good, no VERO violations etc. The next calls are even more robotic and scripted than than 1st.

If you've now branched out to Ugg Boots, GHD's and Beats, then I'd not be so confident calling.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Is this on a stealth account(s) of yours or real?

So hard to know what to do in my situation given that the one time I called up for an increase it went perfectly but now I'm very paranoid about doing it again because everyone on here says not to do it.

Also the fact that it's still not confirmed whether or not ebay actually give automatic raises on business accounts any more makes it all the more tempting to call them.

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

Dont be led by temptation - a good way to do this is to make 5 accounts (example)

Re: Is my account legit or stealth
 

You played with a hot stove when you were kid didn't you?

Enjoy the pain of burning your fingers?

Resist the temptation to call in....I'm not up to have a thread of sadness when accounts get limited after making phone calls.

To help, I make business accounts from scratch for the UK. I enjoy higher limits.

:deadhorse: