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Ebay seller Limits

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Beginner eBay seller limits in the beginner selling series

When starting an eBay seller account, the first month it limits you to 10 listings or $1000 worth of products, whichever comes first. Once you hit the limit, it won’t let you list another item.

The limits are increased as you do good selling on the eBay platform. Every 30 days it’s reevaluated and your limits can increase or decrease based on your performance. Tracy encourages you to contact customer service at eBay to request your limits to be increased. Call on the 31^st day to request it. Ebay will ask you questions when you request the increase. For example: what types of products do you intend to sell, where do you get your inventory from, what are your plans. They ask these questions so they can try to cater to what you are requiring to see what fits with your goals. Tracy reminds you to be kind to the eBay representative as your fate is in their hands and they are not the ones that made the rules. Says things like “I want to double my limits”, “I have inventory that I’m acquiring through wholesale, drop shipping or however you are getting inventory to resell”. Say how much you plan to sell on eBay.

In the video, Tracy goes on to explain why she has multiple eBay accounts, which eBay doesn’t like people having multiple account. Her reasoning is to have an account that looks professional and another for the garage sale type items that she sells. She wants to keep it separate to maintain a professional appearance and not have garage sale type items mixed in with better items.

Tracy’s tip is to be a good seller, work hard to achieve 100% good feedback. Establish a good record of shipping your items fast and offer great customer service to your buyers when there are problems with products.

Something to keep in mind with eBay seller limits is that Amazon doesn’t have limits for sellers. So you may want to consider listing on both platforms while you are building the eBay business to increase the seller limits.

You can sell using Amazon FBA, which is fulfillment by Amazon. It’s Amazons program that allows sellers to send in their inventory to the Amazon warehouses and when their product sells, Amazon fulfills the order for the seller. In other words Amazon finds the product, package it up and ships it to your customer which is why it’s called fulfillment by Amazon. They handle the customer service and return requests. It’s a great option and perhaps the best one to use so all you have to do is buy the product and ship it to Amazon, so you don’t have to deal with the individual orders that comes in and you have to stop what you are doing and package it up and ship it to the customer. Amazon handles it so you can be out retail arbitraging looking for more product to sell. Amazon FBA helps sellers be able to scale their business since Amazon handles the order fulfillment which would otherwise take a lot of time or man power to package, ship and handle customer service if you had to deal with each individual item.

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