Do You Know Your eBay Selling Limits?

by: Another Coin

Still can't find the Monthly Selling Limits Section. Found All Selling but not that section.

by: Susan T

@Another Coin : I totally agree. I too looked all over couldn't find any seller limit sections.

Personally I think that this seller limit BS is nothing more than limiting how much the small sellers list. Has nothing to do with fighting fraud.

Luckily, there are other sites that are so much better to list on. Where sellers actually help each other out.  

by: Bill

I did not find anything at all about selling limits in my selling manager. I clicked on all selling and found nothing at all about selling limits. I do not know what this is all about. I have never heard of such a thing nor have seen anything about that since I started on eBay in the 13 years we have been on here. If it ever came up it would not matter though since we have many other places to sell.

Bill

by: Anonymous Annie

eBay: ''List for free! --- 100 free listings! --- 1000 free listings! --- Fifty thousand FREE listings!''

Seller: Great! Thanks!

eBay: ''Whoa! Hold on there, Cowboy! You're listing too much!''

by: basset

No listing limits found here. Are listing limits only on new items?

by: sassy

i cant find it anywhere...sell/all sell/ebay mgr/..???

by: sassy

lol...@ AA...

by: Duke

That eBay page is wrong.  I've followed it to a T multiple times and there are never any limits shown.

Finally, I called eBay and talked to a rep who said that I have no limits (and he did seem to really be trying to find out the information).

Who knows?

by: Roger Rabbit

Nothing shown about limits.
Another eBay lie.

by: unknown

ebay is, as always, clear as mud. I think what they are calling 'selling limits' is the number of free auctions per month that non-store owners get - at least, when I didn't have a store, they did keep track of how many 'free' auctions I had listed that month and it showed up on that page.

Now, there's nothing there just like everyone else said.  

by: flyingdutchman

The problem with this logic is what if say I inherit a $50,000.00 pair or earrings?  I can certainly handle listing them correctly, and shipping them since they are so small and just one item and would take about 2 minutes to ship tops.  So by this logic, Ebay thinks that I couldn't possibly add and handle the extra load of one $50K pair of earrings to my sales processing?  

What about auctions?  What if someone wants to bid my stuff up to $2MIL?  Do the auctions vanish or become capped once the limit is reached?...
Back in the day when I got busy on Ebay I would simply call some friends up on a Friday night and we would have shipping parties.  I even hired people to help full time.  Being busy is good!

There has been an on going theory that there is a 120 day sales total cap on all sellers and I for one can attest that my 120 is always fixed and a virtual barrier that I can not break through no matter what special, promotions or sales I run.  When it drops down sales pick right back up.  When it's reached, sales completely stop!  Messages too!  Furthermore my 30 day is exactly my 120 divided by 4, and my 7 day is my 30 divided by 4.  Why?  Is there a cap on how much dollar volume you can sell each day?  Do you go to a reserve server somewhere once this number is reached and become basically invisible on Ebay?  Seems likely.  I have never had a $10,000.00 day on Ebay despite having thousands of items listed for well over a couple MIL in value.  Why not?

Why would Ebay do this?  Why would they cap a seller?  Well, if you were a seller and had the best descriptions, photos, and lowest prices, other sellers wouldn't be able to compete.  They would list on Ebay and fail and then leave Ebay feeling like it was a fruitless effort since none of their items sold and only one other seller's did.  This of course is how the real World works, but not on Ebay.  By allowing every seller to have some sales, this keeps the hook baited and people listing on Ebay.  That's why.

Prior to Best Match, and stores in core, we had a far higher sell through rate of about 85% and we had the least expensive prices for our categories.  We still have the least expensive prices and now have about an 8% sell through rate.  Is this due to a cap?  Best Match?  What changed?

by: flyingdutchman

One other note; I'm also a buyer and use my Ebay sales' funds to BUY, so if I am capped, my ability to BUY on Ebay is also capped...(shoot in foot)

by: JackieBlue

No limits on mine either.

by: ebayjim

@flyingdutchman

I have the same suspicions as you do. The amount of sales & customer messages we receive revolve around a certain monthly dollar volume also. If we fall below the amount, suddenly sales happen, even on items that we don't normally sell. Then everything falls off until we fall below a certain sales threshold. It's like clockwork. I would encourage EcommerceBytes to ask their readers for comments on this topic & then depending on the response question eBay management about it.

As for the selling limits info I cannot find it in Selling Manager either.

by: TrentDep

The lack of being able to locate selling limits for most of us suggests that it is not site wide, but obviously a targeted thing...

@ Dutch - very good point sir - I have also experienced similar fluctuations in sales, but have yet to whittle it down to sales per period etc...

Guessing many of us have experienced the same without really locking onto what is going on?...

INA !!  Give Dutch the coveted ~ Blue Ribbon Of Discovery ~ award, and see if Ebay will comment further on his remarks, as well as the fact that none of us can find any limit info ( Really?  Yet another obvious lie from the official Ebay Spokes Mouth?  Shocking !! )

by: woohoo

This is an eBay lie.

I too followed the directions on the so-called Help Page last year around May when I first got hit with the selling limit.  I called Customer (Dis)Service and the CSR said let me check your account and said my account was in good standing and that if I just follow the instructions on the Help Page, I will see when I am about to reach my selling limit.  I said ummmm I tried to no avail and to please walk me through it.  He tried and when we landed on the page and the selling limits were nowhere to be found he said hold on maybe there was a system issue...he kept me on hold for a long time (i had him on speaker so no biggie) and I finally hung up.  I called again and the next person immediately said there was a system issue and hung up on me.  The next person listened to my issue and disconnected.

As to the limits, my experience had been not $ sales related but rather what categories and/or brands I had listed within the last 30 days.  Although I had never been able to figure out the pattern, I was limited after listing 5 or so perfume-related items (regardless of brand), but when I listed the same brand of perfume, I was stopped on the 3rd listing.  For cosmetics, I think I was able to list around 10 before I got limited.

Ina - You should challenge eBay to provide you a screen shot and very clear numbered step by step instructions on where we can get to this phantom page with selling limits.

by: dans parts

Chalk me up as yet another that can't find that section on my Selling Manager page.  Been on eBay since 1999.  Have never seen one of those warnings, thank goodness.

by: blaumann

More complete insanity from ebay. I had a rep on the phone a while back tell m EVERY seller had limits. I was complaining about the limits not coming off anew account. I got a song and dance about how I had to wait longer even though I knew ebay's rules said they should have been lifted. Suddenly next sale they were lifted. This jerk was telling me how long he was with ebay and what an expert he was.  

by: comet

I have an old (12 yrs) account on ebay used for both buying and selling.  I do NOT see any seller limits there altho there is a dismal sell thru rate.  For about the past 2 years.

On my "new" account---to take advantage of the Free 50---I see a screen EVERY time that tells me I can list so many items up to a certain limit.  

Now heres the thing!

Under what Ina is telling us this means that I COULD in theory be SHUT DOWN if I got BIDS up over that limit!  I find it hard to fathom this as the items I sell are scattered thru the used clothing (in several categories) household,  motorcycle parts,  etc.  And I have never come CLOSE to listing the DOLLAR amount on items as the sum of opening bids or BIN's.

So HOW are these limits DETERMINED?  

Is it what amounts I LIST?  OR the amounts I take in SELLING?

Now all of this is a moot point as selling is at an all time looooow.

I have gotten "flurries" where I sell 3-4 items in a day or so and then---nada.  And these sales don't come anywheres NEAR any selling limits---the amounts rarely go over a few hundred on ALL items sold if that.

So what gives????

If this were NOT ebay one would think that the FVF's would be enticing to the hosting company.  But seemingly once again ebay is BLIND DEAF AND DUMB to the idea that people really DO know how to manages their OWN business.  

Big Brother ain't got nuthin' on Ole FleeceBay

by: Oh, For Goodness Sake

I have not encountered any listing limits whatsoever, and I sell in multiple categories and item values. Can't find a limit anywhere on my account. It is possible that it depends on whether the account is designated as personal or business.

I did encounter a problem at one point several years back, when I had a much higher sales amount than was typical for my account -- and discovered that every seller has a credit limit, even with a credit card on file for automatic payments. I made a payment to my eBay fees, and sales resumed.