Product change

[Elisek]

Have a a good stealth, no negs, nothing outstanding (apart from fees).

Was selling a particular product quite happily up until a month ago when my listings got pulled for Trademark Violation (to be honest, I think it may have been a competitor. The warning wasn't VERO related).

I'm not suspended but I was told not to relist these items. I left well alone.

I want to completely drop what I was selling and change the product to something totally different (and safe!). This new product may actually prove more profitable.

But I know how eBay/PayPal are - or used to be - when you change your product line and instead of earning ££ per transaction, you're now potentially earning £££ per transaction. Account gets suspended because your not selling what you used to, or you're suddenly earning more than you used to. (So, of course, you must be laundering money!)

I want to change asap. Is this going to be a problem?

[JamesNorth101]

Changing products is fine

It your going from selling £20 items to selling £300 items is where you often have issues.

[Elisek]

Thanks. It'll be going from roughly £10-£50 per item to possibly £50-£100 per item.

What issues could pop up? Just so I'm prepared!

[wired]

Originally Posted by Elisek

Thanks. It'll be going from roughly £10-£50 per item to possibly £50-£100 per item.

What issues could pop up? Just so I'm prepared!

Same old issues facing any Stealth really. It may flag up but if the account has aged and had some good dollar go through it, it may be ok...but once you start clearing more and more, and PayPal Account Review team will eventually have a nose. Try to keep sales below the VAT threshold...I know thats what partly could of burned my last account by going over 100k in a year.

[realdeals]

All stealth should show a kind of 'natural evolution', rather than sudden drastic jumps and changes, for this is what will set off the alarm bells and flags.

[JamesNorth101]

I would add in a few of the £50/100 items slowly overtime. The slowly you add in the higher priced items the better your long term results will be

[Haidukken]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

I would add in a few of the £50/100 items slowly overtime. The slowly you add in the higher priced items the better your long term results will be

This has always worked well with my accounts. I haven't noticed big differences between going from £10-20 items to £50-70 items, but as soon as I try to sell a £100+ item the payment will be held by Paypal.

Whats more annoying than anything is when a customer purchases multiple items and I combine the invoice for him. He then makes a payment of £100 and it gets held by the Paypal monkey squad.

Pretty annoying, but just something that you need to be aware of. After certain amount of time payments will not be held anyway, so just ease your account into it. Babysteps.

[andyf777]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

I would add in a few of the £50/100 items slowly overtime. The slowly you add in the higher priced items the better your long term results will be

James and Haidukken are right, slowly build up. Don't just jump in and list the £100 items, start gradually moving up with prices, adding tracking info also.

Slowly slowly catches the monkey. Treat it similarly to how you would a new stealth and over a few weeks PP probably wont even notice the slight price hike and wont red flag you.

[Elisek]

Thanks for all the replies. I would be starting the auctions below around £15 each by the way, in the anticipation/hope that they will hit the £50+ range by the end of the auctions run.

These aren't BIN's for around £100. If that makes a difference :/

[andyf777]

In my opinion auctions would be a good move and better for pp for see as there is no set, same amount going in for every transaction. As we all (including paypal) auctions very rarely sell for the same price.

Slow and steady on the product change/transaction value and you should be perfectly fine.

[JamesNorth101]

Auctions are a very good way to start Then add in a few well prices BINs in a months time