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Everyone has limits. With eBay, it is called "Managing your listings". I got fairly adept at listing, de-listing, re-listing.
You get higher limits by selling, not listing. Work hard and you will get what you want. SELL for three months, not just list, and then give them another call.
By the by, they keep track of how often you call. I know, I asked.
How do you get your limit increased to $15K?
Behave yourself and apply every thirty days for an increase. Have a reasonable reason why you need the increase and stick with that story each time you call (they make notes in your file).
I started a secondary selling ID last year and faced the same situation in spite of a long history on this id. Every thirty days I clicked the link to increase my limit and each time the limit was increased. It's now at a level that exceeds what I need.
If you are wondering why this policy is in effect, just be aware that the days of new sellers coming and listing a million dollars worth of goods and then vanishing are OVER. This was a serious problem a few years ago.
Rose, I believe some IDs which were in place and in a trusted state before Ebay implemented this still have no visible limits on them. My other ID is like yours.
This is correct. Additionally ALL sellers have limits but older accounts don't display the limit until you hit it for the first time. If you want to find out what it is try listing (during a free listing promo) 10,000 $1000 items (or 1,000,000 $10 items)......you'll quickly find out what your limit is.
The limits are the total of what you have sold (during the month) and what you have listed at any given point in time.
If you have a $50,000 limit and have sold $5,000 you can list $45,000 worth of items.
Keep in mind, if you list a Fixed Price item with a single quantity of $10, that's $10 to your limit, if you list a $10 item as multi-quantity of 100 units that's $1000 afgainst your limit.
You reach your limit based on quantity OR value so the mix of quantities/values is something to consider if you are reaching you limit.
(I have no idea how much I have running in terms of $$$ value only the count of different items)
Have a look at the Seller Limits section of My eBay, it's all tracked there so you can see exactly where you stand at any given moment.
I'm also assuming then that the GTC items count as they roll over each time too right?
Nothing to do with rolling over, the count is based on ACTIVE listings.
I know someone who hit their limit when they listed a multi-quantity high value item but made an error and tried to list a quantity of 1000 instead of 10.
If I recall correctly their limit turned out to be $250,000, an amount they would normally never come anywhere close to.
@rose-dee wrote:One last question -- do limits somehow automatically accumulate and accrue over the years on these older accounts like mine, or do you know if they were set higher to begin with and are now just "grandfathered" in?
I can only guess......
When limits were started 2 or 3 years ago eBay probably ran a program to examine every sellers past history and place a limit based on that history. The limits are actually pretty generous. If historically for a number of years you ran 500 listings worth $50,000 you limit may have been set at 5,000 items and $250,000.
No doubt other factors such as the type of products you sell, claims history etc are all data points used to set the limits.
On that new account I opened it took me about 5 months to get the limit up to a level where I stopped bothering to ask for increases, based on how they were increasing them in the first 5 months I expect if I'd continued to ask it would now be at level far in excess of what I would ever need.
They certainly did ask lots of questions about why I wanted the increase, once when my story changed slightly the csr said "last month you said...." and then quoted verbatim what I had said the month before. That's why I said to keep your "story" straight.
In my case I said I had a different product line that I didn't want to mix with my regular account and that I had essentially unlimited stock to list if they would let me. Since I was talking about low value items I kept mentioning that I needed an item increase more than a value increase but it seems as if they would only give me both!
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