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facking ebay banned me for life!
 

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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area

11/22/13 9:52 AM

facking ebay banned me for life!

to sell, at least.

no details as to why, despite having 100% positives and 5-star ratings across the board!

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Pat Clancy
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 1353
Location: Manchester, CT

11/22/13 10:00 AM

Appeal?

They have no process to submit an appeal or at least find out the reason?

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

11/22/13 10:23 AM

Fluck FeeBay anyway!

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Brian Kelly
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 653
Location: Gig Harbor, WA

11/22/13 11:10 AM

facebook?

If you are on facebook, and it's cycling stuff you are looking to unload, there are a few groups out there that specialize in selling bike stuff for example:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlineswap/

The other one I know of is trying to keep membership to the southeast, but check around as there may be something similar in your area.

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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area

11/22/13 11:11 AM

decision is final

over 10 years and thousands of transactions and a 100% positive rating with 5 stars across the board.

i called ebay and this is the issue: i recently sold a vintage wrist-watch manufactured by breitling for wakmann on ebay. i included that wakmann/breitling information in the auction title and ebay deemed the inclusion of "breitling" as malfeasance on my part since the dial didnt actually say "breitling" on it (even though anyone interested in a 60-year old mechanical chronograph would know it to be true). ebay pulled the listing, so i adjusted the title and ended up selling the watch to a very satisfied ebay buyer and got a glowing review on the transaction.

and, yes, the decision is final. but they're more than happy for me to keep buying stuff on ebay.

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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC

11/22/13 11:28 AM

Join up using a different user name?

If the decision is final, I would cancel the account right away. At least they KNOW they'll lose you as a buyer.

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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area

11/22/13 1:29 PM

>Join up using a different user name?

mebbe. will probably have to do some fancy stuff w/ my name/address/email/cred-card info so they dont link to current acct.

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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven

11/22/13 1:34 PM

I received an email recently from ebay indicating that they were going to disable my account due to a lack of activity. I cannot remember the last time I signed in with that account; it was fine by me.

Perhaps it is a programming error on their part when auditing and cleaning up accounts.

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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC

11/22/13 2:24 PM

You must be a VERY infrequent user then.

I only bought something once every few YEARS! And I hadn't received anything about my lack of activity!

What I received a lot of, are e-mail telling me my account will be cancelled unless I sign in with my password at some eBay lookalike website! ;-)

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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area

11/22/13 2:24 PM

just opened a new acct

use my middle name, different paypal acct, different mailing address (mom's)...and listed my 1st item!

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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC

11/22/13 2:32 PM

Yeah!

Stick it to the man!

(in a medium where spammers thrive and "Nigerian" philser goes uncehcked, guy like you with knowledge should be able to do legitimate business as you wish!)

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

11/22/13 2:45 PM

'Perhaps it is a programming error on their part when auditing and cleaning up accounts."

More likely phishing/scam, no? Look at the header or actual link url....

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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield

11/22/13 8:00 PM

Amazing. I'll bet you had a nice picture or two, unambiguous.

Part of the irony is they probably used that one thing to justify their action.

You might think they would lock your account as an interim step while they waited for an informed opinion.

But you did what every other good scam artist does (just kidding) - you opened up another account and picked right up where you left off. I guess that's another part of the irony.

On a cycling content tangent:
This video from Omega has "track racers" 28 seconds in.

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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven

11/23/13 7:02 PM


quote:
What I received a lot of, are e-mail telling me my account will be cancelled unless I sign in with my password at some eBay lookalike website! ;-)


Hah! Indeed. Aint that the truth.

This time the email I received was definitely legit and you are correct my inactivity has been for quite some time...more than 5 years ago, no exaggeration.

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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real

11/24/13 6:14 AM

I stopped using eBay some time ago.

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