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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Where do the numbers come from?

We have a saying here in the South. When you don't want to hurt someone's feelings you just say "bless their hearts". A way to be polite and not offend.

Well ebay has struck again.

I was checking my dashboard yesterday and saw that they had raised my selling limit. Not long ago they raised my selling limit to $595,000. I laughed at that for several days.

Now I will be laughing for a week.

They raised my selling limits to $2,932,819.78. That's over 75 times what I have listed at this very minute. Where do the numbers come from? Random generated numbers? A dart board in the break room?

If I listed everything I have ever owned in my lifetime and everything I have in my stash to list now I could never reach that impossible number.

Way back when I was a newbie seller there were no limits. They just wanted you to list your stuff because everything sold and they wanted those fees. Now everything is regulated and I feel for new ebay sellers when they have to beg ebay to raise their limits. But these numbers are so totally out of reach that it's funny.

Bless their hearts....

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  1. Wow. The expectations would keep me up at night ;)

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    1. I guess you could look at it thinking that ebay has confidence in your sales ability, but somehow I don't see it that way. With a whopping $12 in sales for the month of December I may just need that huge listing window to make a living ;)

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  3. Okay, I'm stumped. Where do you see that number? I love random - how funny.

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    1. Its on the pro manager page scroll down towards the bottom and you will see your sales total for the month, how much $$ inventory you have and what your limits are. I use it to check my sales daily to see if I am in line with where I need to be. Its just funny how some sellers can't get ebay to raise their limits and how crazy high mine are. Of course I have been on ebay since 1999 so I guess age has its privilege.

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    2. Under which heading? I've looked up and down the pro manager page on my account a bunch of times and darned if I see that section. Maybe I'm just losing it. But now I am really curious what my limit is!

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  4. mines a nice $65,625. Way more even than yours :D I wish they auto raised but its not worth calling in again for me. Even that (which is nothing compared to yours is $55k more than I have listed. \

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