topic 10 items per month? in Selling

10 items per month?

deadlyblade21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 04:51:08 GMT

I'm only allowed to sell 10 items per month? Is eBay serious!?!?!1/!?!? Is there a way to increase this?

Btw, it's 10 items per month... I thought it was 10 listings per month. So I am only allowed to sell 10 of the same bracelet under one listing in an entire month?! This is absurd

Re: 10 items per month?

clarry100 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 05:04:02 GMT

Until you establish yourself as a reliable seller you will be restricted like this on new selling accounts.

You can attach a credit card to your ebay account. This normally gives you an automatic instant increase to 100.

After that you need to call them monthly (every 30-days) and plead your case for an increase.

We all had to start out this way. Unless you have had the selling account from 10-years ago when these restrictions did not exist.

We have just had one of our selling accounts that started out the same way lifted to 500,000 items per month without even having to ask them. For us that is essentially unlimited. It just takes some time. Took us 3-years to reach this level.

Re: 10 items per month?

deadlyblade21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 05:10:30 GMT

Okay, thanks for the quick reply. I've attached my paypal to my ebay. Is that the same as attaching my credit card, if not, how do I attach my credit card?

Re: 10 items per month?

clarry100 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 05:29:32 GMT

Try this help page link...

Credit Card Add/Edit

Re: 10 items per month?

deadlyblade21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 05:35:45 GMT

There is no "credit card" section to "edit." Maybe it's because I've attached my paypal?

Re: 10 items per month?

twyngwyn — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 06:27:08 GMT

To Paypal you can either 'attach': 1) a credit card or 2) a bank a/c

Re: 10 items per month?

2106greencat — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:13:48 GMT

A credit card attached will assist you in increasing your selling limits, a bank account will not.

Also - if you are new to all of this you need to be aware that paypal can withold funds from buyers for up to 21 days before releasing to your account (paypal account).

Visit this site to see what is involved and how it is all working at the moment and what is being done to try and stop this (alleged) illegal action by paypal:

http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Selling/21-DAY-HOLD-FINANCIAL-SERVICE-OMBUDSMAN-WANTS-TO-HEAR-FROM-YOU/td-p/1649917/jump-to/first-unread-message

Re: 10 items per month?

deadlyblade21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:13:09 GMT

I have a credit card attached to my paypal. It's still 10 per month.

Re: 10 items per month?

cherry*135 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:02:34 GMT

@deadlyblade21 wrote:
I'm only allowed to sell 10 items per month? Is eBay serious!?!?!1/!?!? Is there a way to increase this?
Btw, it's 10 items per month... I thought it was 10 listings per month. So I am only allowed to sell 10 of the same bracelet under one listing in an entire month?! This is absurd

Is this your first eBay id/account? If you have another one that you have sold on recently you can link the two and that may give you a higher limit per month.

If you are brand new to eBay then the limits will apply.

Re: 10 items per month?

deadlyblade21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:35:10 GMT

Sadly, I am brand new. Would penalties apply if I link my cousin's account to mine? He's a long-term ebay seller.

Re: 10 items per month?

ourphonecase — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:06:46 GMT

If I recall I think you need to be linked by the same owner. Since you do not own it then it probably wont allow. If somehow it is allowed, then you need to becareful. If you screw up your account (ie: pernament suspensions), his account is gone too and vice versa.

So personally, I wouldn't bother with messing around with linking yourself to your cousin since you would be putting your cousin and yourself at risk.

Just attach a credit card to automatically increase your limit to 100 or what ever and then call up every month.

Re: 10 items per month?

deadlyblade21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:37:37 GMT

I don't understand what you mean by attach your credit card. I've already attached my paypal to my account, and my paypal has my credit card attached to it. Is there something else I need to do?

Re: 10 items per month?

cherry*135 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:20:52 GMT

@deadlyblade21 wrote:
Sadly, I am brand new. Would penalties apply if I link my cousin's account to mine? He's a long-term ebay seller.

No, that wouldn't work. It would have to be an account in your name, with you as the person who did the selling.

Ebay would be able to see it isn't one of your accounts and there would be penalties for trying to mislead them.

You just have to work with what you got... 10 sales etc and build up to more by being a good & reliable seller.

Unfortunately in the past there have been some new sellers who were scammers.. opened a new account, sold TV's, mobile phones etc thatthey didn't even have, then they disappear with buyers money. eBay is trying to prevent that happening.

Re: 10 items per month?

cq_tech — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:10:14 GMT

To attach your credit card, use this link... https://arbd.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SetupCCPayment&v2redirectpage=955&guest=1

Re: 10 items per month?

deadlyblade21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:04:19 GMT

Thanks for the link

I've filled it in and It's still 10 items...

Re: 10 items per month?

van_werkhoven — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:14:00 GMT

@clarry100 wrote:
Until you establish yourself as a reliable seller you will be restricted like this on new selling accounts.
You can attach a credit card to your ebay account. This normally gives you an automatic instant increase to 100.

After that you need to call them monthly (every 30-days) and plead your case for an increase.

We all had to start out this way. Unless you have had the selling account from 10-years ago when these restrictions did not exist.
We have just had one of our selling accounts that started out the same way lifted to 500,000 items per month without even having to ask them. For us that is essentially unlimited. It just takes some time. Took us 3-years to reach this level.

Has it really been 10 years since they introduced the restrictions? I'm so glad I had an account, which I sold an item or two on, from when I was a teenager! I didn't have to deal with restrictions until I opened a new account this year. I thought they were a recent thing!

Re: 10 items per month?

clarry100 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:24:39 GMT

I'm unsure exactly when they introduced selling limits.

But this posting ID I've had since July 2004 and its never had any kind of selling limits.

The oldest other ID we have is now 3-years old and it started out with the monthly limit of 10.

We have built it up from there by calling in monthly to have the limit increased. They never once refused an increase.

Then about a month back suddenly we get an email from them out of the blue that says your selling limts have been increased to 500,000.

For us that's esentially unlimited.

Re: 10 items per month?

clarry100 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:28:46 GMT

I'd say give ebay a call and discuss this.

Here is the number we have always used to ask for selling limit increases.

1-800-427-403

Re: 10 items per month?

cq_tech — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:39:17 GMT

@deadlyblade21 wrote:
Thanks for the link
I've filled it in and It's still 10 items...

That should have automatically increased your limit to 100 items and between a $5,000 and $7,500 sales limit.

Perhaps there's a delay before it becomes functional, but I think it might be time to give eBay a ring and ask them.

Re: 10 items per month?

i-love-my-sheep — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 07:55:07 GMT

My mates new account started with a limit of 10. He linked it to his existing account, linked it to the same PayPal account (with both credit card and bank account) and his limit was only increased to 30.