[meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

[Greg Catterton]

Wow, that sucks man. Ebay really is such a joke anymore.
They do nothing about people who sell fake meteorites unless you really give them hell, yet they do things like this.

I was listing links to my website (before I even had it set up with prices and such) and Ebay pulled something like 25 of my listings about a year ago. It seems someone was reporting my listings for violating ebay policy about links... I then relisted them and included links to the Meteorite database, those were pulled becouse you could supposedly link from that to places that had meteorites for sale - that were not even mine!

I have been trying to get a power seller status to reduce the costs of fees, but for someone like me that really does not sell much, its pretty hard to do - I loose something like 15-20% of my sales to fees...

I wish Erics meteorite auction site would have taken off, or someone would come up with a viable ebay alternative that would do well.

anyway, I hope you are able to get whatever it was worked out. It sucks ebay will suspend you but not provide better information as to the reason.

Greg C.

--- On Thu, 7/9/09, dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com> wrote:


> From: dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com>

> Subject: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 9:29 PM

> 

> As if you didnt need another reason to try and diversify

> your business away from ebay here is what happened to me

> this morning. I am not making any part of this up or in any

> way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen King nor the

> guys on CSI could make this up.

> I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this morning from

> ebay cancelling my auctions and two emails saying that my

> account was suspended.

> Many auctions were canceled because they were

> "Significantly misrepresented". After 3 hours of chatting

> with people I finally get through to the "trust and safety"

> people after a recommendation from ebay australia.

> I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way of

> knowing who) decided that my  auctions were

> misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was misrepresented

> just that they look at the description, picture and content

> when deciding was what misrepresented but she had no way of

> knowing exactly what.

> So I try and reason with her. "If you cant tell me what it

> is about my auctions that was misrepresented how can I not

> repeat the problem in the future?

> Sit down before you read her response.

> She said that if ebay told everybody what they look for

> when they decide that auctions are misrepresented then

> people would do things to get around their security checks

> in future auctions so it would be a security violation to

> tell me what it was about my auctions that was being

> misrepresented and therfore canceled (And leading to my

> suspension.) She then said that my suspension was for 7 days

> so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any difference

> because you cant list on ebay for 7 days again anyway.

> Reasoning is getting harder. "OK, for my information. in

> seven days time when I get back on ebay again can you tell

> me what about my auctions was misrepresented so that I can

> fix them and not violate your policy in the future so I dont

> get kicked off again?".

> Sorry, telling you what the problem is would be a security

> violation and if people who what they looked for would do

> things to circumvent their rules in the future".

> This is going nowhere. I wish that I had a copy of that

> phone conversation. It would have looked good on youtube.

> In addition, the emails that ended the auctions said this:

> ----------------------------------------------------

> eBay has restricted your ability to list new items as a

> result of a policy violation. We'd be happy to lift this

> restriction once you've completed a brief tutorial about

> this policy. The next time you sign in to your eBay account,

> click on ?Sell? and ?Sell Your Item.? You?ll then be asked

> to take the tutorial. Once you've completed it, you can

> begin selling again immediately.

> __________________________________________

> Unfortunately, doing so is not possible so I cant even sign

> on. Even their emails dont make sense.

> So with a bit of luck, sometime in the next 7 days they

> will tell me what was wrong with my auctions so that I can

> fix it and not violate their policy - although maybe they

> will not because doing so might enable me to fix the problem

> out and circumvent their rules in the future.

> I plan to spend the next 7 days getting some shopping cart

> websites built and trying out other sites to sell stuff.

> Anybody got any ideas where else to list stuff? Anybody know

> somebody with ebay who will talk to me?

> Apparantly it was my pearl auctions that was somehow

> misrepresented but its not possible to find out why. It

> sgoing to be a pain relisting 1700 auctions. It probably

> wont get done - especially if I can figure out how to build

> a nice shopping cart website

> Cheers

> DEAN

> On a completely different note I need to come up with

> around $2000 in my paypal account in the next week so I am

> particularly into dealing from my website right now

> WWW.METEORITESHOP.COM so if you see anything let me know.

> Also, you people out there who owe me money, now is a good

> time to pay up.

> 

> 

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