Requesting more items to be listed on the first month opening up the store - basic store

[erg-auto-electrical-wholesalers]

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.

[erg-auto-electrical-wholesalers]

Yes,

I want to sell a lot in each month.

I understand the limits.

I was hoping to get 500 listings and 500 sales.

So, I just need to call them every 30 days to ask for a limit increase.

But I wonder, if I go over the 200 free items for the month in the basic store as per limit increase, I need to move to the next store level when I get permission to increase my listings/sales.

Do any of you people have 500 listings or more and sell more than 100 items a week. How long did it take for you to convince ebay to increase your limits to this level? and what rating where you?

I really just want to sell on ebay.

I am trying to do a bit of planning

[erg-auto-electrical-wholesalers]

Actually I heard some really good advice.

When your limit is increased each month, just call ebay and ask them about it and also discuss it with them.

Seems like a smart idea, than randomly doing it at any epoch.

[lyndal1838]

The way things are on ebay at the moment you will be lucky if you sell 10 items in a month, let alone 100 when you first start selling.

Have you read the boards at all.....even the most experienced sellers are doing it tough these days.

[*tippy*toes*]

You may want to sell 100 items a week, but there's a high chance that won't happen. I'm not trying to burst your bubble, but it's a reality. You need to establish yourself and get people to trust you. Only time and sales can do that. There's not that many in the big scheme of things who can achieve that, especially in the early days. There are a lot of high volume, high feedback sellers who sell a lot each week, but they've worked hard to get there. They would have started off with 0 feedback and low listings limits and worked their way up.

I think you need to go back over your numerous threads and re read everyone's posts on listing limits because I still don't think you understand what people are trying to explain to you. While your limit is 100 items, you can't have 100 active listings and 100 sold items in a month. Everything you do can only add up to 100.

[*tippy*toes*]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

The way things are on ebay at the moment you will be lucky if you sell 10 items in a month, let alone 100 when you first start selling.

Have you read the boards at all.....even the most experienced sellers are doing it tough these days.

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When should the news be broken about the lights on lights off thing?

[erg-auto-electrical-wholesalers]

I understand the maths.

I just needed a quick way to get to at least 500 listings and 500 sales.

I was hoping to do that within 4 or 5 months.

How can people buy things without them being listed>

I sold ten items last week which is good for a new store that just opening with a rating of 4 - now 7, but I could really make some money.

I got to learn rheotoric and sweet talk.

[davewil1964]

I have 1300 listings, but I only sell about 50 per month. And a basic store (200 free pm)

I do reduce my fees by listing for 30 days and selecting the 3 free auto-relist option, which makes them 120 day listings, and I only pay for 500 per 4 months (at 5c).

I also have no listing limits on my main ID. 100 on this one and 160 on another one, but they only use the 40 free per month.

But your issue is with listing limits and not store freebies, at least for a little while.

Relax, go with the flow, stop stressing about things you have no control over. Spend your time writing up listings (I store mine in Notepad files), taking good quality pics, working out prices, setting up your accounting system to cope with your hoped for sales levels, getting an ABN and working out how to fill in a BAS....

[erg-auto-electrical-wholesalers]

I always thought if you are always going to list the item, good till cancelled would be the best option.

I have set items, they do not change. Nothing really new, or old coming in.

i will always sell the same item. People just need to find it, and if it is not listed well then..

How long did it take you get to the 1300 listings?

[davewil1964]

There you go.

You haven't been asking the right questions.

GTC is list and forget. I don't mind reducing my listing fees by clicking 'relist' on an average of <15 items per day. Especially when a bulk relist will take about a minute all up.

I sell books. Some sell in days, some in months, some years. But most sell, so GTC would be easier, except that I allocate any listing fees against the specific book, not globally, so I would still be doing as much work, just paying eBay more for the privilege.

[collect247]

The 1964 in daves ID says it all haha