Your first week as a seller: why you can open only five conversations a day
New sellers can open five conversations a day during their first week, and replies are never limited. Here is exactly how the limit works, why it exists, who it protects, what it costs an honest seller, and how to make the most of a slow start.
You passed the identity check, your profile went public, and you went looking for buyers. A few taps later the app told you that you had opened too many conversations and asked you to come back in a few hours.
That message surprises a lot of new sellers, and we would rather explain it than leave you guessing. This post covers exactly how the first-week limit works, why it exists, who it protects, and how to make the most of a slow start.
How the limit works
- Five new conversations a day, for seven days. The week starts when your identity check is approved, not when you sign up. After it, the limit rises to a daily number that nobody reaches in normal use.
- The five are spread across the day. Open five in a row and the next one becomes available about five hours later. The app tells you how long to wait.
- Opening is what counts, not sending. A conversation is opened the moment you tap the message button on a buyer's profile or card, even if you close it without writing a word. Tapping it again on the same buyer counts again.
- Replies are never limited. When a buyer writes to you, or answers something you sent, you can reply as much as you like, straight away. Buyers can message a new seller as freely as anyone else.
- Nothing else is touched. Uploads, the feed, following, hearts, comments and livestreams work exactly as they do for everyone.
Why it exists
Every scam we have seen on feet pic platforms starts the same way. A new account passes the identity check, sometimes with a real document and someone else's photographs. On day one it messages every buyer it can find with the same text, and the text always ends the same way: add me on another app.
That account does not need many replies. It needs reach. Fifty openers on a Saturday night only have to catch one buyer who has not read the staying safe guide, and by the time the first report arrives, the damage is done.
Now look at what an honest seller does in their first week. They finish their profile, upload a few sets, answer the buyers who found them, and write to a handful of people whose profiles they liked. Almost nothing about that week looks like the pattern above.
The limit is built on that difference. It takes away the one thing a scam account needs, which is reach on day one, while costing a genuine seller almost nothing. Five conversations a day for a week is thirty-five buyers, which is more than most sellers write to in their first month.
Who it protects
It is tempting to read a limit as a sign of suspicion. It is closer to the opposite: it is what lets buyers trust a new seller at all.
| Who | Without the limit | With it |
|---|---|---|
| Buyers | Ten openers in a weekend, most of them copied and pasted, and a reason to ignore every new name | A new seller in the inbox is worth reading |
| Honest new sellers | Competing for attention with accounts that message everyone | A quieter inbox in which a real message stands out |
| Established sellers | Buyers burned once by a fake account stop trusting the platform | The buyers you worked for stay |
The first row carries the others. A buyer who has just deleted eight identical messages does not open the ninth with an open mind, however good it is. Keeping the inbox a place where a real message gets read is the whole point.
Making the most of a slow start
A slow start is not a wasted one. These are the things that work, in the order we would do them.
- Finish your profile first. Buyers browse the seller directory, the live feed and livestreams. A complete profile with recent uploads brings messages in without you opening a single conversation.
- Spend your five on people, not on a list. A short message that mentions something on the buyer's profile gets far more replies than the same text sent to ten people. Read the profile, then write.
- Continue conversations from the Messages page. Going back to a buyer's profile and tapping the message button again uses one of your five. The inbox, behind the speech-bubble icon in the top bar, never does.
- Answer everyone who writes first. Replies are unlimited, and a buyer who wrote to you is the warmest lead you will get all week.
- Go live. A livestream puts you in front of buyers without a single opener, and hosting is free for sellers.
By the time the week is over, most sellers have more conversations running than they can comfortably keep up with. The limit is gone before it starts to matter.
Being straight about this
- It will stop someone with good intentions now and then. A new seller who gains twenty followers on their first day and wants to thank each one personally will hit the limit, and the only fix is to wait a few hours. We think that trade is worth it, and we would rather say so than pretend the limit is invisible.
- It does not catch everything. A patient scam account can open five conversations a day like anyone else. The limit makes the pattern slow and expensive; the other checks, such as contact details refused everywhere public, messages screened before delivery, reports, holds and bans, deal with the rest. It is one layer, not the whole wall.
- It counts conversations, not quality. It cannot tell a careful opener from a pasted one, so a thoughtful seller pays the same price for the week as a careless one. We chose a simple rule that everyone can predict over a clever one that nobody can.
- It is for sellers only. Buyers pay to message, and mass-messaging from the buyer side is not a pattern we have seen. If that changes, the rule will.
Where to go next
The staying safe guide is the companion to this post, for buyers and for sellers. Keeping scammers out explains the other changes that arrived alongside this one, and why stopping scammers comes first sets out the thinking behind all of them. If you are a buyer wondering what a good first message looks like from the other side, how to message a seller covers it.
Still to verify? The verification guide takes a few minutes, and your page goes public the moment you pass. Everything else, from what is free to how memberships work, is in the FAQ.
Five a day is not a ceiling on how far you can go here. It is the reason a buyer still opens your message.