It's strange that since he's been moderately successful for this many years that he never went all out with his own website. Could have kept selling on ebay all along, too, and it's much easier to hook up a merchant account to your own website, too, which means savings. One has many more options by way of design, options and opportunities when running one's own website. Could have used the ebay outlet to attract customers to his website, too. He can still start his own website fast and just bulk email his repeat ebay customers to come to his website. Tell his story in the email to the customers. It wouldn't come off as a sob scam story because they've already bought from him, and people that are even somewhat passionate about art would have enough cause to support his enterprise by continuing to buy from him. Explore all the other suggestions mentioned before me, too. If his photographs fall into a certain distinguishable category that makes them very noticeable, then even if he somehow got reinstated on ebay, someone could dump on him anonymously again and again, which could have easily been the case in this story. Ebay is a robot, they do first and think never.
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