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Platforms
eBay selling accounts
What eBay ties together
eBay reads the device a listing is written on, the address the session comes from, and the payment and postage details behind the sale. The postage label and the refund land in the same record, so an account is judged whole rather than sale by sale.
It also keeps that history for years, so an account is judged against what the same machine did long before today.
Several accounts are allowed
Holding a business account and a personal one is ordinary on eBay, and so is running two shops with different goods. A shop for spare parts and a shop for clothes are two audiences, and that is the case the rules were written for.
What it acts on is what the accounts do with each other: bidding on your own items, buying from yourself, or opening a fresh account after a suspension.
Why the ceilings exist
Listing and relisting at machine speed is the pace that sends a young account into review, and the edits count as much as the listings do. Ten new listings a day sounds small until the count includes every relist of the same item.
These numbers sit on the profile card in Grid view, under "Safe daily ceiling", and each row shows its threshold there as a number: a ceiling of 10 with a 60% threshold reads "warning at 6". The app does not count actions on the platform and blocks nothing, so this is guidance and the decision is yours.
| Action | A day | Warning at |
|---|---|---|
| New listings | 10 | 60% |
| Listing edits | 40 | 75% |
| Buyer replies | 30 | 75% |
| Account switches | 2 | 50% |
First week of a new account
An account opened this morning starts at a fifth of the daily ceiling and reaches the full number on the seventh day.
The ramp is a fraction of the scenario ceiling rather than a second number to keep in step, so raising one raises the other.
| Day | Pages a day |
|---|---|
| Day 1 | 24 |
| Day 2 | 42 |
| Day 3 | 60 |
| Day 4 | 78 |
| Day 5 | 96 |
| Day 6 | 108 |
| Day 7 and after | 120 |
Selling limits belong to eBay
Every account gets a monthly limit on how many items it may list and how much they may be worth, and eBay raises it as the account earns a record. That raise follows delivered orders and settled disputes rather than the speed at which listings appear.
That number lives on eBay and is counted per month. Ours sits on the profile card as a guide for the day and blocks nothing.
What the rules actually say
The selling practices policy and the rules about multiple accounts are the documents that decide here, and they are rewritten more often than any page about them. A page about a policy is a copy, and a copy is only as fresh as the day somebody wrote it.
Read them at the source. We point at them rather than paraphrase them, because a paraphrase goes stale without saying so.
What this does not do
- It does not raise the selling limit eBay sets for an account.
- It does not make two accounts look like two people to a shared payment method or a shared postage address.
- It does not bring back a suspended account, and opening a new one instead is exactly what eBay acts on.
- It does not undo the link between accounts that already shared one browser.
Check it
Every number on this page comes from the product, not from a marketing draft.
- Ceilings and warning thresholds for selling accounts
- packages/shared/src/index.js · SCENARIOS.shopping.rateLimits
- The seven day ramp for a new account
- packages/shared/src/index.js · WARMUP_RAMP · warmupLimit
- The daily ceiling shown beside a profile
- packages/shared/src/index.js · SCENARIO_DAILY_LIMIT · apps/desktop/test/entitlement-quota.js
- Scenario records keep their platforms and their limits
- apps/desktop/test/слитый-сценарий.js
- The threshold as a number on the profile card
- apps/desktop/src/manager/renderer.js · порогДействия · apps/desktop/test/решения-имён-исполняются-в-окне.js
Questions
- How many accounts can one person hold?
- eBay does not publish a number and neither do we. The ceilings here are a guide per profile per day: the app shows them on the profile card but does not count your actions on the platform.
- Can I bid on my own listing from a second profile?
- No. That is shill bidding, and a separate browser does not turn it into anything else.
- Do your ceilings replace the selling limits?
- No. eBay counts items and value per month, and our ceilings are a daily guide the app shows but does not enforce.
- Why is the switching ceiling two a day?
- Two accounts driven in turn from one machine all day is the pattern that links them. The app does not count switches: the profile card shows Account switches with a ceiling of 2 and "warning at 1", and the decision is yours.
- Does a scheduled flow get its own budget?
- No. A flow spends the same page count as your own clicking, and nothing stops it.
Open a profile for one eBay account
The free plan gives two profiles, with no time limit and no card.