Prolonged store holiday

[rocket2retro]

I have to put my store on holiday for a prolonged period as I'm moving house . As it has not enough space I need to build a storage unit before re-opening my store. It may be 3-4 months before I can sell again. I plan to keep my store open (ie keep paying monthly fees) but will have no listings visible.

I'm wondering how long you can be 'offline' before eBay treat you like a new seller (and impose listing limitations & the 21 day funds hold).

Do you think there would there be any point in premptively calling eBay to explain my situation (or would telling my cat get the same result in the long run?)

Thanks

[brerrabbit585]

I think the cat would give you a more intelligent answer. I doubt anyone would know this unless they've actually experienced it, but I can't see why you'd have any listing limitations when you re-open the store. After all, you'll still have listings all that time even if you don't actually sell anything.

As for the 21 day holding of funds, if that's going to happen it's going to happen. I can't see that it would but if it does you'll soon get past it, and you're better to stop selling while you get the rest of your life sorted.

[digital*ghost]

eBay look for a certain volume of successful sales in the last 90 days, but that's only after they do impose the limits so I can't say for sure if they would if a seller with your history took a few months break - I'm also inclined to think they wouldn't, but I have no real basis for that, other than the sellers who do talk about payment holds tend to have not sold for a year+ before starting up again. 

[rocket2retro]

Thanks for your replies. I had a friend who had been a reasonably high volume seller for a decade, who stopped selling & closed his store. After a period of time (not sure how long unfortunately) he started receiving warnings from eBay that if he didn't resume selling he MAY be subject to future volumes limitations & the 21 day hold. His situation is similar except he closed his store & ended all listings (whereas mine will still be running but not visible).

I suppose I'll finsd out one way or another in due course

[kopenhagen5]

I know there was a term of 12 months touted for a while for limits to be reimposed on normal accounts.

And perhaps warnings given at 6 months. ( I am guessing it also requires no log ins at all)

But if you are continually paying the monthly subscription fee I would think that is different to a standard account.

Have you considered leaving items visible and in holiday mode ?

That way buyers might put something on their watch list for purchase later.

[rocket2retro]

Thanks for the information. Yes I am going to leave my items visible.

[brerrabbit585]

If they're visible they can be purchased. You can't have it both ways - either they're visible and can be bought or they're invisible and can't be bought.

Both my IDs (only one is a store) were opened before there were any sort of listing limits or payment holds. On one ID I probably only sold about 10 items over a 12-month period, either last year or around that time, but I got no limits applied. That may be because I started that ID before the limits applied but I thought I'd mention it.