Selling Limits

[pierrelebel]

"A Platinum PowerSeller who has been listing on eBay since the late 1990's recently stumbled upon the fact that eBay had placed limits on his account without his knowing. While many sellers are aware of eBay seller limits, it seems eBay only displays such limits on some, not all sellers' dashboards, leaving a gaping hole in some sellers' knowledge base."

Worth reading:

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y13/m12/i10/s02

[pierrelebel]

Comments from eBay users on this blog:

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2013/12/1386641256.html

[mr.elmwood]

I discount everything Ina says. I consider Ina to be a paid employee of eBay.

A platinum seller heading for titanium and their business plan is "I didn't know"? Horse hockey.

There is an expression in law "Know or ought to have known". You cannot say "I didn't know".

[tobyshitzu]

Id discount anything ina says, but I sure wouldnt consider her a paid employee of ebay?!  Most of what she writes is trying come up "conspiracy theory" type things against ebay

That said there are enough credible posts on the com ps board on the limit thing.  A worrying one for those of us who have found multiple ids advantageous too

[mr.elmwood]

I have never read anything of Ina's that could in any way be investigative. Ina's articles kinda, sorta, maybe taht something mighta happened toan un-named seller. Ina then goes on to say that eBay maybe, shoulda, woulda, coulda done something a little different.

Every article is a definite possibility of a firm maybe. Totally unwilling to take an eBay seller to task. Totally unwilling to take eBay to task.

The article in post 1 said nothing, other than a seller has a limit. Well stop the presses and put out a special edition.

[pjcdn2005]

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@mr.elmwood wrote:

I discount everything Ina says. I consider Ina to be a paid employee of eBay.

A platinum seller heading for titanium and their business plan is "I didn't know"? Horse hockey.

There is an expression in law "Know or ought to have known". You cannot say "I didn't know".

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So you know what your limit is?

I don't know what mine is.

I guess you are special. 🙂

[pjcdn2005]

I agree that Ina seems very anti ebay and some of the responders to the posts there are even more so.

There are tons of posts about this on the different message boards but only a small percentage of sellers do read the boards. I think that for many established sellers would be surprised if they suddenly were given a selling limit.

[rose-dee]

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@pjcdn2005 wrote:

I think that for many established sellers would be surprised if they suddenly were given a selling limit.

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I agree.  Not only that, but I have real difficulty understanding why such limits, if imposed, wouldn't automatically be displayed for the seller to see.  It seems absurd not to inform the seller.  

What on earth is the point of having a limit if you don't find it until you bump up against it, perhaps with an important listing that gets removed?  It's like saying you can drive your car as much as you like, but we're going to take away the gas gauge.  You'll find out when you run out. 

Just by-the-by (for Mr. E.) -- the legal principle of "knew or ought to have known" applies to circumstances where a level of care, responsibility (such as by a licensed driver of a car) or fiduciary duty, etc. is implicit in one's actions, not to ordinary everyday facts.

[pjcdn2005]

It seems absurd not to inform the seller. 

So true!

It's like saying you can drive your car as much as you like, but we're going to take away the gas gauge.  You'll find out when you run out.

LOL. Great analogy.

[recped]

If you have started a new selling account in the last 2 years then you will have selling limits shown in My eBay.

Only selling accounts started in 2011 or before do not show the limits. I suspect it's because they don't really have limits in place but rather the 'bots monitor and if they detect something (a huge increase in listings) then they are flagged to have actual limits applied.

[pierrelebel]

eBay clarifies its selling limits:

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y13/m12/i11/s01

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@pierrelebel wrote:

eBay clarifies its selling limits:

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y13/m12/i11/s01

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That should read.......

Ina Steiner claims to clarify something but actually clarifies nothing as she merely repeats what eBay's talking head repeats from what is in the help section.

Such brilliant journalism....NOT!