eagleedc
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:31:18 AM new
This is the most frustrating thing in my eBay career... (besides fee hikes and declining sellthrough rates and all the other stuff that is the most frustrating...)
INV NOTICE: eBay Registration Suspension - User [ebayaccount] is Linked to a Suspended User
They say I am associated with imperial_marketing
I have NO IDEA who imperial_marketing is.
I have 3 Power Seller accounts and 6 other accounts between my wife and I. They have canceled all but the Power Seller accounts.
Well, they have somehow mistaken me for someone else.
BUT, here is hard proof that they DO in fact FAVOR Power Sellers who break rules (even though I haven't done anything wrong).
Anyone ever go through something like this with eBay?
-Rob
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hwahwa
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:37:40 AM new
No,it has nothing to do with powerseller,they just have not linked your power seller accounts with the offender yet.
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eagleedc
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:43:33 AM new
How would they link an account that I have not even logged into for months, with the same exact registration and payment data but they miss my main accounts that pay them $10,000 per month in fees?
I don't buy it.
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irked
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posted on December 3, 2006 10:31:19 AM new
Time for a phone call. don't mention the other PS account they might zap it too. Probably not since you pay them so much. That is just too weird. You may be victim of someone using your information to sign up for an account and mess you up. Would be easy enough to do that order something from you then use your return addy information and mangle your reputation. I never thought of that but it came to mind as I was typing this. PPL steal others information all the time, now the trick is to find out if you can what IP was used with the offender if you can find that out and back trace soemhow to and ISP then a town bla bla bla but that may be very difficult as I know Ebay will not cooperate with that. The cads.
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 Check it out
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agate18
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posted on December 3, 2006 03:18:40 PM new
Recently i was suspended for shill bidding. Or so the notice said. Of course idid not and have never never done shill bidding. I do not like the idea. They would not listen to me in any form. I finally learnt that i had placed a couple of bids on some items of someone i knew, and more importantly i learnt that he was suspended for shill bidding too.
It turns out that that he was shill bidding. I had placed genuine bids but they went too high so i dropped out. Never thought any more of this. I then went out bush to do some opal mining. While i was out there my wife received a notice of suspension on all my accounts for shill bidding.
I did learn that you can be suspended for being associated with a known shill bidder. Even if you have done nothing wrong.
When i came home i finally i contacted their australian lawyer in sydney. and told him the story. Had to send them all the emails that i sent and received. Within 48 hrs i was back on ebay.
Because i was out bush at the time of the suspension and it took me a while to figure out who to talk to. It took me about 6 weeks to get re inststed.
All my auctions were wiped as were my store items. Thet would not re instate them. Even though they were in the wrong. I also had to re design and set up my store details. as they had deleted the lot.
My suggestion to you is to find out who their lawyers or solicitors or attorneys are and contact them and tell them the whole story. Also keep any emails that you receive over this matter to present to the lawyers.
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hwahwa
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posted on December 3, 2006 05:30:30 PM new
Instead of trying to explain to Ebay you are not affiliated with imperial-marketing,you may want to ask EBay what does it take to reinstate those suspended accounts?show your utility bills,driver license,bank statement etc .
I have a feeling that Ebay robot will find your 3 power seller accounts and suspend them as well.
Do you switch from one Ebay account to another on the same PC and using the same Internet service provider(s)??
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toben88
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:12:33 PM new
Last year during the xbox 360 fiasco, ebay banned my brother and a friend for suspicious looking activity (selling lots of xbox 360's) and only temporarily suspended my silver level powerseller account. The only main difference was that I was a powerseller with lots of feedback and they were not. It took a long time to get things resolved and I learned how to make higher margins on my own website. But I am convinced my account was not banned because of all the fees I pay them. From their point of view it makes sense to not ban your highest paying customers. It really made me angry at ebay but I got everything resolved and still sell there. My brother and my friend however are banned from ebay and paypal for life.
I just updated my new website - give me your feedback on it.
http://gotflag.com
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:42:48 PM new
But I am convinced my account was not banned because of all the fees I pay them.
You can think that if you like, but I probably pay more fees than you do and I was suspended three times.
fLufF
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pixiamom
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:44:39 PM new
$10,000 per month has me beat - and I thought I had it bad!
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:55:59 PM new
Silver is only $3,000 per month. Gold is $10,000 per month.
fLufF
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neglus
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posted on December 3, 2006 09:59:22 PM new
Silver is only $3,000 per month. Gold is $10,000 per month.
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That's SALES. The OP says he pays $10,000 in FEES/month. He'd better be more than silver!
OP - don't you have a PS rep? I'll bet some minimum wage clerk in Salt Lake City suspended your other accounts over the weekend but can't do PS without approval. Talk to your rep tomorrow to get it straightened out.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 3, 2006 10:07:46 PM new
Oh. Sorry. I immediately discounted that claim, as I doubt it very, very much. That would translate into something like $100,000 a month in sales.
Or $1.2 million a year.
Hold the phone...could eagleedc be ERIC SCHMIDT?!?
fLufF
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pixiamom
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posted on December 3, 2006 10:15:12 PM new
Even with combined accounts- doesn't pass the sniff test. Whats really up?
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neglus
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posted on December 3, 2006 11:34:55 PM new
Will the REAL Eric Schmidt please stand up?
At last!
I asked once in the Vendio moderated forum if Eric was a real person and they said he sold dice!
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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eagleedc
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posted on December 4, 2006 06:31:26 AM new
Ok, here is the story on the FEES...
September and October I ran a number of home page featured listings on multiple eBay country sites. The cost was high but they made money.
In November I upped the stakes and put up 10 times as many. Thousands of dollars in HPF fees alone. Almost everyone of them lost money.
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Ok, this is another sob story I don't want to go into but that account is not a Power Seller due to a number of ended listings.
It's a long stupid tale. Basically, an eBay rep told me in CHAT that I was Power Seller account (when in fact I had not signed up to be one). So, I added the Power Seller logo to about 50 automated listings. Then, they started ending the listings left and right without telling me why (eBay credits rule email, very vague). Finally got a response.. yada yada... ...
As Mike Jordan says "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take". So I took my shots.
-Rob
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eagleedc
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posted on December 4, 2006 06:45:12 AM new
Ok, so here is the latest...
I emailed eBay through the Power Seller email form detailing every detail and account name. Within 2 hours they canceled the rest of my accounts along with every account that has ever been accessed from my home (3 accounts belonging to friends and business associates have been Suspended now).
So much for honesty. Waiting till the call centers open now...
Goose - "...you got the number of that truck driving school we saw on TV... ya, we might need that..."
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zoomin
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:00:48 AM new
eaagleedc:
might be a stretch but...
you can be linked to a user by using the same internet connection. If you are using a wireless connection, any user that has utilized your connection via laptop 'looks' as if it is you to eBay since activity will come through with the same IP address.
Not sure if this applies to you might thought it might be of assistance!
(my lovely experience with an unwarranted shill bidding suspension.)
(on my 6 year PowerSeller id)
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eagleedc
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:08:46 AM new
Thanks zoom
That is totally possible. I have an active wireless link in range of a major road.
I think I have WEP enabled, but any geek knows that is worthless to a committed crook.
Will keep that in mind.
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btw. Not sure if I dare even ask but... Who is ERIC SCHMIDT?
-Rob
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pixiamom
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:12:04 AM new
Agate, that is scary. How did they learn about your friendship with the shill bidder? I don't buy from family members but occasionally I have fellow Postcard Club board members buy from me. Imported all my listings to Vendio just in case. Of course, I and my friends have never gotten involved in the X-Box fiasco and I don't have a number of friends and relatives accessing their account from my computer, nor did I use the Powerseller logo until eBay emailed me the congratulatory note. I don't have fee surges overnight, my eBay activity follows a pretty predictable pattern. I hope this keeps me off their radar but I've heard enough horror stories here to never feel quite safe.
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hwahwa
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:12:09 AM new
Ebay will suspend powerseller ,it makes no difference how much you pay them in fee.
In Toben's case,she has enough feedback and sales history to establish herself as an Ebay seller in good standing-she is more likely to have the merchandise on hand than someone who has low feedback,never sold a high ticket item and no inventory ,just a picture of the play station.
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zoomin
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:13:35 AM new
I have an apartment complex not far away. Parents park there and log on to notebook computers while they wait for their kiddles to be let out of the Elementary School across the street. They always get a connection ~ not mine anymore though!
[ edited by zoomin on Dec 4, 2006 07:13 AM ]
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hwahwa
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:39:56 AM new
Eagle said-
emailed eBay through the Power Seller email form detailing every detail and account name. Within 2 hours they canceled the rest of my accounts along with every account that has ever been accessed from my home (3 accounts belonging to friends and business associates have been Suspended now.
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There you go,your friend and business associates registered with Ebay on their own PC and ISP ,then they come over to your house and access their account on your pc/laptop.
One of them is imperial marketing and has been suspended,so now Ebay found his cookie on your machine.
If you go to your office and access some of your accounts which were registered with Ebay on your home PC,then all your accounts regitered on your office machine are linked to your home pc accounts.
Then you go to your friend 's house and access your suspended account on his machine,Ebay may suspend his account too.
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NEGLUS
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:40:46 AM new
From the Vendio Home Page:
""With Vendio, soon we were doing up to 100 auctions a night and over $1,000,000 a year in sales."
-Erik Schmidt "
We have been asking about him for years!
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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eagleedc
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:41:44 AM new
Is eBay recording MAC addresses as well as IP and cookies?
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hwahwa
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posted on December 4, 2006 07:43:17 AM new
Sales does not always translate to profit,especially on Ebay.
Many electronic goods seller make a meager living selling high ticket electronic goods,competition is tough on Ebay.
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hwahwa
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posted on December 4, 2006 08:04:27 AM new
I dont know anything about MAC,but I know Ebay use a combination of data such as home address,IP addr,phone number(includes cell phone),bank account number,credit card numbers,driver license,passport,cookies and god knows what else ,and now they have a data base where they store all the information.
[ edited by hwahwa on Dec 4, 2006 08:07 AM ]
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eagleedc
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posted on December 4, 2006 08:47:46 AM new
Looks like I will be without income for most of the week (if I can get back online that is). Things gonna get tight fast.
How much is O pos blood going for these days?
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hwahwa
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posted on December 4, 2006 08:57:43 AM new
There may be a way to sell on Ebay,there is a site which will suggest a few things you should do-like getting a mail box address,buying a VISA gift card,delete all cookies on your pc,unplug your cable ,open new bank account using your middle name ,and of course dont ever ever revisit your suspended accounts .
It works for some but not others.
There are also some one who will sell you an ebay seller account with some feedback??
There are books on how to get back on Ebay.
But the best way is to ask Ebay what you have to do to get reinstated.
There is an online form you can fill out and fax it to Ebay.
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agate18
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posted on December 4, 2006 09:15:46 AM new
pixiamom i have since learnt in the last few weeks that he had a reputation for shill bidding . i knew nothing of the reputation he had gotten. I also found out that he had been suspended at least 6 times. So each time he then changed his user name and went back onto ebay. Not really sure how he did that.but he did. Ebay somehow tracked him down and all his accounts in the previous years. And my name was associated with him because i had bid on some of his auctions. Some i won, and some were bid up too high so i let them go. I thought i knew him pretty well. Clearly i did not. Now i dont go near his auctions at all.
Even though my feedback is 99.9%and i have been selling on ebay since about 1997. it made no difference. They just accused me and suspended me of something i did not do. Their lawyer in sydney told me that they have at least 100,000,000. registered users world wide.
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pixiamom
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posted on December 4, 2006 09:55:58 AM new
Agate- did he ever get on your computer or you on his? It's too bizarre that eBay would suspend a user for bidding on a 'home town' (I suppose they could link your geographical area) listing and accuse them of shill bidding. What next!
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