Selling Limits question -- What's going on?

[liawri-75]

I have  two charts with selling limits and want to know which One do I pay attention to.  Which one is the most important.

#1

or #2

*confusing*

[bashort]

both, whichever you hit first.

for example your limit would be

(1) $267.46 item

(10) $26.46 dollar items

(21)  items that totaled $267.46 or less

[iamalwaysright]

Monthly limit (#1) is your actual limitation eBay gives you. It’s unique to your account and can change over time.

Promotional offers (#2) are given to basically all sellers of a certain level or type. The offer can be higher than your monthly limit, but since you are bound by your limit, you’d obviously won’t be able to use up the promotional offer.

Here’s an analogy. You have a car with a 20 gallon gas tank (I.e. monthly limit). You get a promotional offer that says free gas on one fill up of the month up to 50 gallons. You are bound by your gas tank limit and can only use up 20 gallons of free gas in your one fill up. Which means you obviously will never use up the remaining 30 gallons each month.

[ebooksdiva]

You can only go by your selling limits.

Promotional free listings since your monthly selling limit is 21 items that's what you are allowed to list for free.

[liawri-75]

So basically I'm looking at 2 charts with different limits?  When I asked for more limits this was shown.  Ebay is Exhaustive and Exhausting.

[liawri-75]

??????????? Confusing!  Do you mean Chart#1 or Chart#2?

[iamalwaysright]

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@liawri-75 wrote:

When I asked for more limits this was shown.  Ebay is Exhaustive and Exhausting.

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Why do you say that? Just because eBay said no to you? Did you think ebay was going to up and give you a higher limit for no reason? If so, they never woulda given you your initial limit in the first place. You have to earn the higher limit.

I will say this. eBay selling isn’t for everyone.

[liawri-75]

Ebay's charting is so old fashioned.  So ancient.  Those charts should be merged into one simple chart, but as usual EB does it the hard way.

[iamalwaysright]

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@liawri-75 wrote:

Ebay's charting is so old fashioned.  So ancient.  Those charts should be merged into one simple chart, but as usual EB does it the hard way.

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Your groaning isn’t helping you learn this any quicker.

Okay, here’s an easy way to look at it. Just ignore the Promotional Offers section (“chart 2”). Pretend it isn’t there. You’ll be fine that way for about a month or so to get used to and understand “chart 1”. Then you can come back and ask what the so-called “chart 2” is for.

[pastimpressions]

Don't seek to add any confusion but I have been experiencing a different variation of a similar problem for a few weeks now.

Mysteriously, in my monthly selling limits section at the bottom of my selling page, the overall limits are the same/accurate but what eBay says I actually have listed does not match reality.

I have many more items at many more dollars in value actually listed than the dashboard indicates.

This was a sudden and undisclosed change that occurred approximately 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Keeping in mind, once again, that my threshold limits are still 5,000,000 items and/or $5,000,000.00. Baffling.

Thoughts?

TIA

[iamalwaysright]

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@pastimpressions wrote:

I have many more items at many more dollars in value actually listed than the dashboard indicates.

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If this is true I fail to see what the problem is as that would be a good thing for you.

[pastimpressions]

It's inaccurate. That is the problem. Not a big problem but not accurate.

Nothing I have made an issue of as long as it appears to be some technical glitch & not a "problem"

Saw this thread and it seemed like the time & place to see if other sellers have seen similarly strange tabulations.

As it would be "on-topic" for me to mention it.

[ebooksdiva]

You can only list 21 items that is your limit. 
The free listings have nothing to do with your monthly selling limits.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@liawri-75 wrote:

So basically I'm looking at 2 charts with different limits?  When I asked for more limits this was shown.  Ebay is Exhaustive and Exhausting.

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in your original post, only chart #1 is about your listing limits. 

Chart #2 refers to the 250 free insertions that all non-store sellers get. It's there to help you keep track of how many you have used.  But if your listing limit (as shown in chart #1) is less than 250, you won't be able to use up that "promotional offer."

eBay is understandably secretive about the formula that they use to set or increase a seller's listing limits.  Your restriction might be related to the two negative feedback you have received this year, both of which refer to canceled transactions implying that you have two defect points on your account.  Hang in there, provide excellent service to your buyers, and just keep requesting that limit increase every 30 days; eventually you'll get it if your performance standards measures are good.

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-policies/seller-performance-policy?id=4347

[wastingtime101]

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@liawri-75 wrote:

When I asked for more limits this was shown.

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As I mentioned on your post less than a week ago, "Since you have many more items listed than your current limits, what's going to happen is eBay will start ending listings on their renewal date until your account is within the 140 item / $2.7k limit.

eBay will further decrease your limits every month until you're eventually permanently banned unless you improve performance and pull this account out of Below Standard status."

You've been Below Standard since January and eBay has already severely lowered your listing limits.

Requesting a limit increase is going to fail if you don't improve your performance. You're close to 3 weeks away from the next seller evaluation and that evaluation will cover transactions through March 31 (yesterday).

Your Seller Dashboard will show you your projected seller level for the next evaluation. Did you improve your performance in the last 5 days or do you still see Below Standard under the "if we evaluated you today" section?