I've been talking to my friend about this for the last 24 hours.
The problem with a lawsuit, small claims or not, doesn't solve his immediate cashflow problems. Sure he has a little saved up, but when you have a family of 4, there's not much left over even at 30k (gross - I believe his margins are somewhere around 50% after expenses).
When he originally got the dreaded email from eBay, he immediately called his PS hotline and got the usual, "we;ll look into it...". He was hopeful, but then the emails stopped from the PS dept and only got emails from T&S after that first email.
From talking to him, I believe as one of you did, that this might have been a complaint by a non-vero manufacturer, or a competitor through a diff acct (perhaps more than one). I remember when my brother (me too, for that matter), got banned, our FB, DSR's etc...were all great. No significant complaints nor chargebacks, PP claims, etc...same with him.
Just another "BAM" out of no where.
Yes, he's considering a lawsuit, but frankly, my advice to him was to join this board or at least read it. If you folks recalll, I tried for 2 months trying to get my PS acct back to no avail. So that's exactly what I told him..."Would you rather waste time, or get back to selling?"
He's just so depressed right now, I'm really not forcing the issue on him.
He's also considering leaving eBay all together and starting his own website, but once again, we all know how long that takes to start generating $$$.
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