I'm afraid your sarcasm fell flat. I was just concluding my thread by repeating the advice a more helpful correspondent had given.

There you go, stawks and/or tippy -

Providing facts and asking for clarification is unhelpful.

More hel[pful?    They were a bit late to the party.

I told you about the linking accounts in the second post and gave you the link to sort yourself out.

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/multiple-accounts.html

I'm all upset and stuff now      

Taking my ball and going home      

I included your point in my post to reinforce it because it was also relevant to my post (I think from memory I wrote "as already mentioned.......). I was about to post how to link the accounts, but as my post seemed to fall into irrelevance, I'm not going to bother. The OP can work it out for themselves.

*sigh*  I wonder why we bother sometimes.

Fair go, people!  All I did was explain a little more fully in a way the OP understood (they'd obviously read it wrong originally and needed it explained in detail), then the OP said they understood now and they would take all YOUR advice- so they were acknowledging your contributions!

Thanks everybody. I followed advice onhow to request an increase in selling limits which took me to a page in which I had to enter details relating to my other account (Account Name, Phone No. and Postcode). The problem I now have is that my phone number is not accepted. I have tried entering it in just about every possible format, putting the country code in the first box (61) and the area code and phone number in the second box, etc. etc. but no format works. There is another thread on this very problem dating back years but it seems that different formats apply to different countries. I live in Australia, by the way.

I may appear to be not the smartest person on the planet, but I am not alone in my confusion on this particular question.

Majority of the people on the Australian boards live in Australia.

Try removing the zero from the area code or your mobile number, e.g +61 2 12345678 or +61 428 123456. Although from memory, I don't think I needed to put the country code in. If it just has 2 boxes to put the number in, you shouldn't need the country code, but you will need the zeros, e.g 0212 345678 for a landline, 0428 123456 for a mobile. I'm pretty sure I put 4 numbers in the first box.

I tried your suggestions without success. I can't imagine any combination that I haven't tried but I'll keep working on it.

Click on Help & Contact at the top of the page.

Follow the links and get them to call you back.

It's a lot easier if they call you back - and quicker