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erg-auto-electrical-wholesalers · ‎22-02-2016

Hi, I have reached the 100 item limit. I have 4 positive feedbacks and I have sold 3 more items. I want to request another 100 items the same month I opened - this month. I want to list them this weekend.

Now this is the thing I am confused about. I paid $20 a month for 200 listings, if I request another 100 will those listings be free as I would have a total of 200 listings which is advertised as free on Ebay for a store each month.

Thanks.

clarry100 · ‎23-02-2016

Ummm!!!

At the moment I can see that you have 84 active listings.

Assuming that every one of those listings lists only a single item (ie no multiples or variations) then that will use up 84 of your 100 item monthly limit. Therefore you have potentially 16 available to list. But if you have 16 sold items this month then you actually have ZERO available. This means you cannot list anything else this month no matter what.

So although you may have a store allowance of 200 free listings you cannot use those 200 because you have already hit your listing limit of 100 items. The 200 is only free listings which if you could list them all then after you exceed 200 you have to start paying listing fees.

So whilst upping your store to the next level will increase your FREE allowance (to whatever it is??? more than 200) you will still be unable to make any use of them becasue your monthly limit is still 100.

There is simply no way ebay will allow you to exceed this 100 limit until you have satisfied them that you qualify for them to increase your limit. You can only request a limit increase once every 30 calendar days. Bottom line is there is NO WAY you can exceed your monthly selling limit of 100 in your case.

Also remember that GTC listings that have a qty=1 will automatically end when someone buys that 1 item and will then be on your sold list still counting against your monthly selling limit.. Unless you have the out-of-stock option turned on in which case it will stay active but will not be visible to buyers. GTC listings will auto relist each month as long as the qty = 1 or more (or zero if you have the out-of-stock option ON). When they auto relist they use up 1 of your 200 free allocations from your basic store. And they follow the selling limit rules as well. So if you have reached your monthly limit then it will not auto relist.

So like the rest of us on here you have no choice but to continue selling as best you can within the imposed limits, hoping that your buyers leave positive feedback. Once you reach a score of 50 or so then try calling ebay to see if they will approve an increase in your monthly selling limit. Its just a slow hard slog to begin with. But we all had to do it early on.

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clarry100 · ‎24-02-2016

You could open another store under a different userID.

But you are going to have the very same limit problems you are experiencing now.

But you would have (perhaps) a selling limit of 100 on that one as well.

A couple of things to keep in mind in doing this...

a). it is against ebay policy to open another ID to circumvent ebay limits/restrictions. They could ping you for doing this and you could lose both stores without warning. Caution here!

b.) you cannot list duplicate items on another ID. That is also against ebay policy. But if you have enough different items so that there will be no duplicates on the other ID then no problems with this part of it.

When we opened our second store our original one was already well established with no restrictions. This helped us get our limits raised reasonably quickly.

So be careful how you tread doing this.

Bottom line is don't try to run before you can walk.

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clarry100 · ‎24-02-2016

You can try after the initial 45-days. It won't hurt your record.

They will pretty quickly tell you if/not they will grant any limit increase.

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But having done that you would then have to wait another 30-days before you can call them about it again. The count starts from your last call.

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harley_babes_hoard · ‎22-02-2016

i very much doubt you will be given more listings with so few feedback. You have to prove your capabilities as a seller. Just because you opened a store does not mean they are going to allow you more listings you really should have waited.

imastawka · ‎22-02-2016

Please try and understand. I have told you before, more than once.

You will not get more listings until you have a fb of 50 as a seller.

It doesn't matter that you paid for a store. Dem's da rules

You were lucky to get your listings upped to 100 without linking it

to another high selling id

And I also mentioned that you should have done your research

and waited for that fb to get higher

Oh, and you know the bit that really stinks?

Not everybody gives you feeback

chameleon54 · ‎22-02-2016

Paying $20 for a store with 200 free listings per month does not over ride the selling restriction of 100 listings you currently have as a new seller. To be honest, you are fortunate to have a limit of 100, as many new sellers have a lot less than this. Do you have another selling account linked to this new one ?

The selling restrictions for new sellers are designed to prevent fraudulant activity where people set up selling accounts, list and sell a large number of high value items and then simply dissapear without sending the items to buyers.

The main ways to increase selling limits are -

* Adding a credit card to your account details

* linking an existing, established selling account with high feedback numbers to your new selling account

* Selling enough items over time to get your feedback scores up to a level that ebay accept as proof of your bona fides as a seller. I dont know what this feedback figure is but some forum posters have suggested this is around 50 positive feedbacks as a seller.

The best thing may be to contact customer service about what you will need to do to raise your selling limit. There is a seperate department that is responsible for this, but this department is reached in the first instance through customer service.

edit - beat me to the punch lines stawka

imastawka · ‎22-02-2016

The main ways to increase selling limits are -

* Adding a credit card to your account details

* linking an existing, established selling account with high feedback numbers to your new selling account

I did both of those and they still wouldn't up the limits.

Supervisor patiently said no and no and no and no - ad infinitum

Other account had over 1000 fb

If OP gets his 200, I'll ~~scream blue murder~~ not be happy

He will, I won't

*tippy*toes* · ‎23-02-2016

I had well over 1,000fb on my main account when I opened my second. Linking them and doing all the above lifted my limit from 10 to 30. I now have 164 fb on that account and still have a limit of 100. I'd be very surprised if the OP got an increase to 100 in their first month, whether they would get another increase in the first month, especially as you can only request a limit increase once a month.

I haven't actually requested an increase on my second account, I've just let it increase on its own. I might get on and request one soon though.

kopenhagen5 · ‎23-02-2016

In this new design, is there somewhere it shows what an accounts selling limit is ?

(Apart from reaching it and being notified)

*tippy*toes* · ‎23-02-2016

On mine, in the My eBay All Selling page, between active items and sold items there is a box that tells you what your limit is, how many you've sold that month and what your $$ limit is.

pennyforum14 · ‎23-02-2016

Yes, at the top of your MyeBay page there is a panel that lists your limit, how many sales and active listings you have for the current month and how many you can still add.

It is worth mentioning as well that multiple quantity listings, while they only count as one for the free listings, will count as multiples for the listing limits. So if you create one listing with a quantity of 10 it uses one free listing from your monthly allowance but counts as 10 listings off your listing limit.

eBay do not generally entertain limit increases more than once a month and after a few increases, you may find they start to grant them without you needing to ask.

Cheers,

Penny

erg-auto-electrical-wholesalers · ‎23-02-2016

I should say in the month. You can't put things on a month.

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