Seller Survival Tactics For Ebay & Amazon – Increase Limits, Suspensions, Protect Account

Various Tactics For Online Sellers:

1. How do deal with a suspension on Ebay and Amazon.
A. How to contact, what to say, analyzing the situation, how to act, etc.
B. Create a couple Ebay stealth accounts as backups (Main, Testing, Backup Account).

2. Legitimate Ebay and Amazon Stealth Accounts
A. You have a different tax ID for each account (only required for 200 or $20,000 sales in a year’s time).
B. Some common sense regarding stealth accounts (separate IP address & PC user per each account, etc).

3. Protecting your Ebay and Amazon Accounts
A. Avoid “spikes” or “peaks” with sales, with new listings, new items, etc.
B. Ebay and Amazon do not manually monitor, but rather use automated scripts based on “risk assessment” principles.
C. When there is a “spike” they are alerted and then check out your account. Otherwise, they only check every once in a while (ever couple months, etc).

4. Fastest Ways To Increase Limits on Ebay
A. Sell the same type of item (maybe variations of colors or very similar models from the same brand or related brands).
B. Because of Ebay’s “risk assessment” approach, this works the best. Because they can look at your history and see you are selling the same basic thing and just “scaling up”. Which means, they can trust your expansion.
C. I have seen this work in real world application and you can very quickly increase your limits using this type of methodology.
D. This concept is to sell and increase in a steady manner as you are scaling up very related products.