eBay Weekly Sales Limit?

spacktrack · January 25, 2004 9:20AM

Anyone familiar with this new policy? I went to the eBay main page and to the announcements section. Scanned back to November and saw no mentions. I have never received a message like this before.

<<Based on your activity this week, you have reached one or more limits on selling activity.

To protect your account and the community from misuse, we limit the amount of business sellers can do on eBay. However, you can easily increase your selling limit by providing us with additional verification information.

Your account will be reviewed in the next 24 hours by a member of the eBay customer support team. You may also be contacted via email or phone to provide additional information during the review. You will be notified via email on the status of your account.

Please remember, an eBay employee will never ask for your password.>>

Any help here? I have more stuff to list this week and can't for the life of me figure why eBay would want to limit sales. I thought at first it was a hoax but they aren't even prompting for personal info like a scammer would. I am at a loss.

2323 · January 25, 2004 9:24AM

I've never seen anything on ebay about a limit on waht you can sell, thats stupid. That would mean less money for them!

spacktrack · January 25, 2004 9:31AM

Exactly why I am so confused about this. I have had upwards of 200 auctions listed at once and no problems. Not sure about now.

2323 · January 25, 2004 9:34AM

DSL usually runs a lot more than that, can you contact ebay directly and ask them? Or maybe check the sell page. Never heard that one before though.

habs71 · January 25, 2004 9:38AM

SCAM! forward it to eBay.

spacktrack · January 25, 2004 9:41AM

Habs:

That was my initial thought, but this was not from an email or something like that. It was on the eBay site when I tried to sell. Same site I use all the time.

habs71 · January 25, 2004 9:56AM

<< <i>That was my initial thought, but this was not from an email or something like that. It was on the eBay site when I tried to sell. Same site I use all the time. >>

spacktrack it may be related to your PayPal account then....read this thread..

PayPal Announcement

spacktrack · January 25, 2004 10:05AM

I noticed that thread and went back to check what I have received so far this month. It's less than $300 so I don't know what it could be. Also, how could eBay limit my sales by assuming that I would accept paypal for all my items? I only accept paypal on certain items.

1420sports · January 25, 2004 10:07AM

spoof@ebay.com - I think.

That is a bogus email.

BigKidAtHeart · January 25, 2004 10:09AM

it HAS TO BE a scam.

1) no one else has ever gotten this or heard of it...

2) there is NOTHING on ebay's annoucment boards
about it at all.

3) Ebay is actually INCREASING the ease of selling accounts
(based on what HAS been posted to there announcement
boards as of late...)

4) You are right, they are going to do NOTHING that slows
down sales since that is the way they make their money!

5) they could care less how much you sell or what you sell for!!

I would IMMEDIATELY send the message to ebay ASAP
and let them investigate.
~jeff

habs71 · January 25, 2004 10:22AM

spacktrack..try the eBay Live Help and see what they have to say about it.

Skip

SKINSFAN · January 25, 2004 10:46AM

i think i saw somewthing a couple months ago about there would be a limit on reg accounts but you can upgrade to a buiss account with no limits.know there was something of that nature i read about.

glmueller · January 25, 2004 12:41PM

This is a 100% SCAM! Send to spoof@ebay.com.

pandrews · January 25, 2004 1:09PM

ive had up to 300 items on at once, and I always have over 100 items on.. ive never heard of any limits..

Snowball · January 25, 2004 3:02PM

sounds like spoof. You can ask live support. Go to sell item (like when listing an auction), click on the live help and ask.

JackAMT · January 26, 2004 3:29AM

I highly doubt this is a scam from what was mentioned in your first post. What you need to realize is that you have done absolutely nothing wrong, but did trigger one of eBay's security checks. My guess is your account has mid to high feedback, has not listed much over the past few months until this burst you listed, and has just recently listed many auctions with possibly some for high amounts of money. If this is the case, this is exactly the pattern highjacked accounts display. I'm sure eBay will contact you shortly to verify you are who you really are and you'll be able to list as many auctions as you wish on eBay. However, for now, they think your account could have been taken over and want to protect you and other eBay users.

spacktrack · January 26, 2004 4:22AM

I have been a regular seller for some time now, listing about 10-15 auctions a week @ average of $6 per auction. Small stuff, but I don't do eBay anywhere near full time.

Everyone is screaming scam and spoof, but I repeat again that this DID NOT come in the form of an e-mail, this was from the eBay home page, and they did not prompt for any personal info like most scams are set up to accomplish.

I have emailed eBay and will see what their take is.

BigKidAtHeart · January 26, 2004 4:47AM

<< <i>I have emailed eBay and will see what their take is. >>

KEEP US INFORMED on what you Find out!

eBay Weekly Sales Limit?

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