I tried to increase a bid and this message popped up You’ve reached a temporary buying restriction.
I followed the directions by adding a product to cart and this did not work as well. This is my first time bidding on e-bay.
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I followed the directions by adding a product to cart and this did not work as well. This is my first time bidding on e-bay.
mudshark61369
·2 years ago@stvo5739,
All new members have a limit on how much they can spend and/or how many items they buy at any one time at first. The limits are explained in the link below. Though once again, a rewrite of the policy has important information missing. Under the Buying limits placed by ebay header, the first reason given was
"You are a new or infrequent buyer".
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/buying-limits-restrictions/buying-limits-restrictions?id=4012
Our esteemed colleague the Gnome usually posts a much longer explanation about the holds, that includes more info about Open transactions.
Open transactions (OTs) are:
1) Any item you have committed to buy, auction you have won, or accepted offer, you have yet to pay for.
2) All bids placed on an auction or auctions. They remain open until the auction ends, because another bidder could retract their bid or a seller could cancel another bidder's bid for some reason. Leaving you the winner.
3) Offers made on an item remain open for 48 hours when they expire or until it has been accepted/declined. Also if a counter offer has been sent.
You get a rolling number of 4 or 5 OTs that you can have at any one time, until the limits are lifted. Paying for an item you committed to buy, won, or that had an offer accepted, gives you back the number of OTs used, for the transaction.
As others have mentioned bidding more than once on auctions is not the best way to win them, since you are always reacting to other's bids. The link below gives information on the ways a person can bid on auctions. Read everything in it, but pay particular attention to Automatic Bidding and Tips for winning auctions. On the Tips page you will see a link to Bid Sniping, open it. Sniping is bidding in the last seconds of an auction, which does take some practice, so at first you should bid in the last minute an auction has left to run. Always add a few odd cents to your maximum bid, to possibly break a tie.
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/bidding/bidding?id=4003
"I followed the directions by adding a product to cart and this did not work as well...".
FYI,
The cart, DOES NOT work with auctions for items that are still running, or you have made offers on. It only works with fixed price items. If you add an auction/offered item to the cart it freezes the information about the item at that time. Once you have won an auction or have an offer accepted, it becomes a fixed price listing, and can be added to the Cart.
If you want to save an item while considering buying it use the Add to List or Watch list button on the listing page. Any time you go back and open the listing updated information about bids, quantity left etc. is updated.
You do not have to add item to the Cart to pay for them. It is best used when paying for multiple purchases from one or more sellers at one time. You can pay directly for single items from the listing page.
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/paying-items/shopping-cart?id=4360
You should also read the terms and time frames for using ebay's Money Back Guarantee (MBG) in the link below. Save it for possible future use.
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/ebay-money-back-guarantee-policy/ebay-money-back-guarantee-policy?id=4210
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoOnce you hit a buying limit there is no exception to allow you to enter a new bid on the same auction, so bid your TRUE maximum the first time. And don't be in a hurry to do so. Bidding hour or days before the end of the auction uses up your limits and limits your options.
And the message is that you can still buy items if you pay first (e.g. Add to Cart and checkout or use a Buy It Now button that takes you to a checkout screen as opposed to those that take you to a confirmation screen where you can commit to buy the item without paying upfront). It does not say that your limits will be raised if you do so and that you would therefore be able to bid/offer/commit to buy that particular item or others.
If you have any items that you can pay for that you committed to buy (bid, offer, or committed to buy Buy It Now) pay those to reduce the number of "Open Transactions". Otherwise you have to wait until your status on an auction or Best Offer is resolved (you lose, or you win and then you pay) to free up a slot so you can commit to buy another (again, though, DON'T BE IN A HURRY TO BID).
Unavailable member
·2 years agoeBay places limits on the amount a new eBayer can bid or buy.
Read >>Buying limits and restrictions
megafo_8472
·2 years agoSo new people are restricted from bidding or buying ANYTHING?
Seems pretty f-ed up to me.
kensgiftshop
·2 years agoNo, but they can limit on much they buy or how many items they bid on at one time.
tinsoldierunderground
·2 years agoIf it was a high dollar item you were bidding on, the fact that you've been an ebay member for less than a month would come into play... The same is true for new sellers, ebay can hold their sales revenue for up to 30 days.
stvo5739
OP2 years agoThank You. I was waiting for an e-mail on this issue that was not sent.
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoThe error message writers seem to speak a different language than the Help Page writers. When the Help Page on buying limits and restrictions say "restrictions" they mean something different from what the error message writers say when you hit one of your buying limits and therefore are "restricted" from doing certain actions (buying at all, or using some buying methods--immediate payment Buy It Now--but not others--bidding or making Best Offers).