SwiftCat

2 minutes ago, stl_ben said:

No you haven't.  Again post link to your active ebay account if you have nothing to hide.  I mean are you afraid someone may click on it and buy something?

As the kids say pics or didn't happen.

I've posted two pics now in this thread,

One confirming I was active on VC two weeks before this thread when you said I haven't been on: this was Dec 10. And I made the thread on Dec 27.

Direct link: https://i.postimg.cc/CKsTSxmT/

My sales for last year to verify my amount of money I mentioned I make on one of my active main account:

Direct link: https://postimg.cc/sGzCJckV

I have no reason to lie.

It's not a scheme lol

As for what I sell on it and wanting my user id... No ty I don't share that deep of info 

1 hour ago, stl_ben said:

You will not be auto suspended.  But if you let me know your suspended account I can look into real  quick.  Again I talk to my account rep weekly.  But unlike me gladly sharing my info you don't want to share your account.

And yes I run all three of the accounts I posted and opened them all myself, along with several other ebay accounts for other ventures over the years.  My day job (Goodwill) I sold over 5 Million online last year on accounts I fully manage.  I my personal accounts I sold over $60k last year (sorry the last few months are lower as I am in the middle of renovating my basement to have a larger home  office).

But yeah please feel free to share even one link or your account to support anything you have said....Ill be quietly waiting till then.

I posted one screen shot already to validate my truths.

I haven't posted my suspended accs because I don't even care to access it. Why would I?  I don't want them back 

I'm also not asking for help on that .

If you read the thread I was just wanting a couple people to buy an item from my eBay and after they get it leave feedback. Super Simple. 

Was never asking to show people my suspended accounts or help on it.

Also porkdad validated /vouched for this process it's in the thread. I sent him the $10 immediately after purchase 

I've got 2 accounts I use that are very strong.  

And Im making more accounts as back ups and to sell in random categories.

What are you wanting from me?

I know for a fact eBay suspends accounts on creation and at the beginning of sales. Why does it matter to argue with me on it?  

What do you think is sketchy about me? We have diff selling strategies, so what?  here is my current main acc. Sales:

I also don't need a eBay rep.

Why are you so into flaming a thread with non sense about eBay and interrupting ?

I'm just giving people  10 bucks for buying something that is literally $4 on eBay.

That all it is and all it ever was.

Nothing unusual to cause fear,uncertainty or doubt.

That  extra $5 can go towards paying for shipping on another record for them or hamburger &fries at McDonalds.

It's like helping the VC community with a rebate opportunity 

1 hour ago, stl_ben said:

Wrong  on both points.

They do not suspend your account, they do put limits on how much you can sell the first month, then once your orders ship, you receive positive feedback and you show you are not a scam they raise your limits.  It's so you grow your accounts.  So if you had an account that was limited last month, it's the beginning of a new month now and you can now list more stuff of on it!  Here is that info for anyone who want's it:

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/selling-limits?id=4107

If you are account was suspended/banned that is something completely different...and if you show me a link to your account I can gladly look into that for you.

 

And if you didn't get that get rich scheme was a joke....Ill try a different sarcasm font next time.  But most likely after this thread dies out you will disappear for a few years till your account gets banned again and you need to start another (hence the large gap since the last time you posted here before this).

Dude just stop that's bull shit. I'm tired of proving you wrong. Those are selling limits when you create accounts it'll auto assign you an amount you are allowed to sell, But if you do exactly what I said you'll be suspended even if you stay in the amounts. It doesn't matter.  I appreciate the links but the ai system that runs ebay is different. 

Also 2 accs got suspended in the past a long time ago, my account creation methods are great now.  I only need the new accounts  so I can avoid ebay's managed payment system. Hence why I make accounts smart and I make a slow selling history for 2-3 months and then go bigger.

I make extra accounts in case it happens again and to sell in diff categories. I prefer having backups that way if something happens I don't have to care. Feedback isn't that important on eBay, it's the selling history of successful sales.

The limits link is correct but it doesn't apply to account suspensions. and I don't know why you enjoy this , you probably didn't make that huge eBay acc for goodwill, which means you made one account and with that one account you are a mediocre seller maybe 12k a year at best and know barely anything about creating accounts when I've made over 15 selling accounts. As for your comment about large gap since I've posted,  it was a whole 15 days ago... it ain't my fault people like you harassing people is contributing to it's decline in activity.

Also your sarcasm on calling it scheme  was you ruining the reputation of my thread with your shitty remarks that lack knowledge. Please stay away from my future threads, and posts.  My last post before this thread was a gap of 15 days and the gap before this is bc I read, see a vinyl I like and I buy from website or dm to buy. Simple and you wonder why I think you are a whiny liberal. Even if you aren't 

December 10th I made a post, I wonder if you are able to see when I made the thread.

Can you please stop. I don't need any more replies.   Thank you.

3 hours ago, porkdad said:

Chiming in to say that I contributed to helping out OP and I got the reward quickly and everything was chill. Happy to have helped someone out. It seemed simple enough and clearly OP didn’t have any weird reputation here. I dunno. No reason to think is a Ponzi scheme. 

Appreciate you. Thank you.

41 minutes ago, stl_ben said:

I sell that much on ebay and know the rules quiet well hence why I gave a direct link to you and everyone on how that can cause your account to get banned.

I was providing a direct link to ebay on that, and I would be happy to get any other questions answered with my eBay rep that I talk to on a weekly basis.

eBay doesn't ban accounts because they sell too much.  PERIOD.

Here is the two accounts I run for charity for my day job:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=mers_goodwill

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=mersgoodwill_collectibles

and my personal account:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=stl_ben

I have nothing to hide, I even have the same name there as here.

Feel free to check out the items on the Goodwill accounts as our organization is always listing more great items.

eBay doesn't ban accounts because they sell too much.  PERIOD.

This is bullshit, make a new account. List 5 $100 items and I bet you are suspended. Before you list all 5 and if you do, you'll probably be suspended if one sells. 

I've been doing this a long time, I know exactly what I'm talking about. My established accounts don't get banned but they are useless to me with the last  managed payments upgrade.ive been talking about new accounts "new"this whole time, not established ones.

About your accounts,

Well that explains more, I thought it was your actual account that was selling a million not a established company that you help manage the eBay for. Your personal account doesn't do much sales.

I appreciate the honesty though.

About the policy link, it may have been valid but the reality is by having people buy from me and help me out there is no way to link that it isn't a actual customer (because it was a actual customer) so no one can get banned.

You were just trigger happy.

And somehow thought this was a get rich quick scheme.  

I think our relationship to eBay is quite different. 

Mine makes me a shit load of extra money and you do it for a business that makes a shit load off it 

Thanks for clarifying and the honesty.

Have good good rest of your night.

However I also feel like if you did that much on eBay you would have willingly helped me, instead of publicly acting like I'm scamming people or banning people when there is no link between the accounts for eBay to even suspect...

7 hours ago, stl_ben said:

I guess 2 things on this point,  you say trust is a two street and your trader feedback/length on forum is enough for you...I have the same feedback so I guess it should be enough for me as well?

 

Second - Why do you keep saying liberals to me?  I have mentioned nothing about my political standings or have I commented on anything politically in any way.

 

Bonus point - You keep acting like $70k over multiple ebay accounts is a big deal....I have one that I run that's a million plus every year.  

 

 

I respect the trader feedback, In Normal circumstance if you would have asked me a few questions in a dm I would have sent a link within a hour.

Unfortunately your public responses have consequences and the trade reputation only validates that you can be trusted, but In my case I choose to not trust you based on your communication.

You are obviously a whiny a liberal, your first responses were scared, banning, rules , calling something a get rich quick scheme even though if you read what I wrote there is no way to lose in the situation.etc trying to find a problem when there never was.

Politically, Are you not a liberal? 

I technically made 120 last year and i quoted a lower amount cause I wasn't a 100 percent sure how much I made this year and didn't want to lie.

I want to believe you sold a million but you and I both know we can't validate that unless you show proof and I doubt that's going to happen.

But If that's the case and you do prove it , maybe I have something to learn from you .

As for me 70k is a lot for where I live I don't live in stupid expensive states like ny or Cali 

My house and cars are paid for, it's a easy good life after 55k net where I'm  at lol 

It's really hard to make a million plus on eBay and if you show a couple screen shots of proof I'll give a congrats 🎉

4 minutes ago, Tidal Wave said:

Good luck paying me back with your seventy thousand dollars-a-year salary plus benefits, babe

😂 Here is a trophy for least interesting and not relevant response

🏆

6 hours ago, stl_ben said:

Still waiting for that link so we can buy items and get cash back.

Sorry it's a two way street, last thing I'd do is trust you to honestly leave me a positive feedback. You calling something a scheme when it's obviously not is what made this thread spiral downhill. 

Let's be honest do you whiny liberals really think you can talk this way to people and still expect me to send you a link.

🗡️

My trader feedback and length of time on this forums is reputation enough 💯

9 hours ago, Tidal Wave said:

Have multiple accounts is part of the shadiness. One account. Buy whatever sell whatever. No need to mess around. 

Sorry I didn't know you knew how to run a business better than me.

I'll keep enjoying my net 70+k  year with my method and you keep selling your shit amounts with your one account.

You are allowed to have more than 1  eBay account account and that's in ebay's policy so fk off on the shadyness labeling.

Think bigger, I know you can do it.  Escape the programming.

Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish

I've seen more guts in 11-year-old kids

I no longer need help, thanks I got a couple normal people now willing to help me out.

Hope you all need a little help in 2023 and people criticize your process. When the person is literally paying you money to help also.. weirdos these days.

😂

1 minute ago, Tidal Wave said:

Shady post is shady. 
 

my account is like 18 years old. I go 2 years without buying or selling and there are no problems. 
 

get an account and stick with it. 

Stupid post is stupid.

Your account is not relevant at all.

I have two accounts and stuck with them. I'm talking about my extra accounts but you seem to jump to conclusions.

Is there really something that shady with me paying money to people to get me a couple sales when I need them rather than wait for a stupid item to sell?

I understand everyone is getting brainwashed these days but damn. 

I guess Andrew tate was right there really is a bunch of people stuck in the programming.

As someone who grew up listening to tbs when they were cool 2005

I'd expect more lmao

2 hours ago, anchorclose said:

It’s odd to me that you’re asking strangers to help with this weird request rather than your friends/family.

I don't think it's odd.

I have two cousins I ask every now and then.

I don't really like to ask things of my family, I prefer no one I know to think I need them or need help. It's worth it for me to pay a fellow vinyl collector a extra $5 bucks for such a basic thing. Plus everyone on here already has most likely bought on eBay before and knows how it works. I make things look easy, and dependant on no one. Only my two cousins somewhat know what I do in the e-commerce world. 

Damn, the criticism on this post is ridiculous, I did one like a year ago and quite a few dudes helped me out quickly. Maybe it's because I paid $10 during that time lol 

On 12/29/2022 at 7:49 PM, kjkenney said:

As someone who has been selling on ebay for 15 years...why are you having to create new accounts on ebay at all?  I sold 0 for the last 3 months and then just sold 2k worth of stuff this past month and my account wasnt suspended...🤷‍♂️ maybe not "heavy" enough?

Your account is old/aged and has a strong selling history. Hope this helps.

My situation is a lot different. I use different accounts to sell in diff categories. My two main accounts are aged and strong also.

But areas with strong competition or for a quick money grab I don't want my main accounts doing it. I haven't had account  get suspended in a long time but now I have to do it a little different bc of managed payments system, so my old accounts for these purposes are useless

On 12/30/2022 at 1:05 PM, phillybhatesme said:

I really wish I didn't have to create a new eBay account every time I want to bid on something. It didn't used to bother me, but I was only bidding on items once a month, so 12 new email addresses a year wasn't really an issue. Lately though, between vinyl and guitars, I find that I'm running out of aliases in my gmail account and I don't want to delete old ones that are associated with my March 2018 eBay purchases...but this is becoming entirely untenable. How do these power sellers do it?! I can't imagine having to create a new email address and account every time I want to sell a trinket from my bookshelf - sooooo frustrating. 

I don't mind helping, but unfortunately I don't fully understand your situation

This thread isn't needed that much anymore already got a nice person willing to help for a transaction.

I will need another person in a week so

If anyone else does want to help and make a extra $5 let me know, just pm 

Please ignore the paranoid guy above me, it's 100% safe.

eBay just sees you as a real customer 😂 (because you are actually buying and I'm sending a item)

6 minutes ago, stl_ben said:

So what exactly are you wanting us to buy for this get rich quick scheme, I haven't seen a link yet?

Is the get rich scheme a joke?

Yes if 

14 minutes ago, stl_ben said:

Can you let me know what "Sell to heavy" means?  Like you were making too much money so eBay closed your account?

Yes if on a new account,  if you sell a couple $100+ items it'll auto suspend.

If it's two months old and you sell like 2-3kusd or  multiple 100$+ items it'll auto suspend, some categories have tighter thresholds,  after 3 months if you average 1k a monthly on the account and suddenly  jump to 5k month it'll suspend you. They want you to gradual increase.

My main selling accounts don't get suspended and are super strong But I have diff accounts for diff items.

19 minutes ago, stl_ben said:

Not sure why you spiraled on the second part of your message, but here is eBay's policy on feedback manipulation:

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/feedback-policies/feedback-manipulation-policy?id=4231

This could cause both you and the potential "helper" to get banned.  Not crucifying anyone, just trying to make sure someone else knows the full info before they also get banned like you have.

Also my  previous acc suspensions arent from feedback lmfao, dumb ass umptions.

It's because I try to sell too heavy  sometimes and they suspend.

Instead of appeal I recreate a new one, it's simple

Jesus Christ when has anyone ever got banned for leaving feedback after a purchase, it's a part of the eBay system.  I mainly just want the sale anyway the feedback just helps look better but the sale is what makes the new  account strong.

3 people from this forums has helped me in the past they just aren't active on vc anymore. they aren't banned.

grow up and start making some  money💰and stop interfering with someone else from opportunities

this makes me 60k-70k net from just eBay alone

Congrats you just wasted 5 minutes when you could be learning to make money

Also, buyer accounts rarely get banned unless you abuse returns.

thanks for wasting my time 

2 hours ago, stl_ben said:

 

Lmao, banned for what? You don't have to answer I don't actually care.

I'm just offering $5 extra dollars for helping me out by buying a item I have for sale . I've always been nice on here and have great trading feedback.

What I'm selling is also through a legit platform, with a money back guarantee.

Why do so many whiny liberals want to crucify everyone, that's the real question.

Since I had a NPC go after me in the thread with nonsense completely hijacking the whole purpose of the thread I decided to turn it into a comedy.   enjoy the yt videos

The matrix can't stop me with it's programmed slaves.

I was basically giving away $5 for free as a rebate but that was too much for some to handle.

Thread content :

I'm looking for someone who would be willing to buy an item from me for $4, then I send you the $4 plus $5 for helping me.

And then leave positive feedback after I send a thank you letter in the mail.

eBay suspends my accounts from time to time and I have to make a new account.

If anyone is willing to help me id greatly appreciate a pm, 

I'll also leave feedback also.

Thank you and hope you all are having a fun holiday week 

Feels nice to own this on gold.

8 hours ago, Alan P said:

Anyone want a "gold" copy of this? Happy to sell it for what I bought it for ($45.75 USD). I bought it quickly when it was listed, but I have a FF copy already. Was debating keeping both, but no need. I have not opened it; still sealed. Happy to ship anywhere in the world.

I dmed you

I'm interested in knowing what others you have

On 4/12/2022 at 12:27 PM, dreamover said:

Yes and no. That assumes you're making a profit. A lot of people don't make any profit selling records. After fees, shipping, state taxes, selling some records for less than they paid, etc., the 20,000 threshold is designed to assume people aren't trying to make a profit and aren't hiring tax professionals and accounts to do their books. Of course, if you do $50k in annual sales, like yourself, that is in business territory and you need to keep records and pay appropriate taxes.

The way the new threshold works, it assumes all revenue is profit and the IRS is basically saying, you're not allowed to sell anything unless you're a business. 

I'd say 98% of the people on this board sell considerably less than 20k every year and this shit is going to hurt a lot of people. Everyone will suddenly be requiring for friends & family payments only which will give way to a lot more scammers to move in and take advantage of people. 

You can argue that I should've been paying taxes on all the extra income I make off selling records (which is probably $500-1500 a year in profit). The state sales tax gets paid automatically now, which is different. 

Are you paying the taxes on the whole amount that 50k+ in revenue you're taking in, or are you deducting expenses (the cost of the records, computer, label printer, packing supplies, storage, etc). Or do you classify every record you buy as a business expense and deduct it, lowering your overall tax burden? If so, I think that's WAY MORE bullshit than not paying tax on $1000 of extra hobby income. 

you can file as a sole proprietorship