Just got suspended from Etsy

[Cuterthaneveryone]

Hi, Just lost a very profitable shop. Posted 68 captioned photos with Etsy, step by step explainations of my process, showed them all my ring making equipment. still said I did make my stuff. No explanation, no evidence. Had no customer complaints, perfect feedback, Paypal account and their account paid all was well... wake up suspended. Done, no recourse.
How can this happen? Can Etsy link with Paypal and Ebay? I don't really want back on Etsy, just don't want this to happen again...ever, if I am on another site. It is crazy, can they go into your accounts on other sites and snoop? Or am I being paranoid? Or more paranoid than usual?

[RedShootingStar]

You sure that you didnt violate any of their major rules, because typically it takes alot to get suspended from these smaller specialty sites.

[GreenBean]

Not the way etsy has been acting over the past nine months.

There's a hierarchy developing within etsy. Sellers are not dissimilar to the loverlies on the various purse forums AND the ebay forums. Nasty nasty pieces. Heard of more than one shop going without as much as an explanation. I can vouch that the seller has not broken rules. (not me)


Etsy is not linking ebay/paypal info (yet). crosses fingers for that to be permanent

If you make your own jewelry, have you tried other sites? Artfire is nice. More exist

[rsot]

various purse forums - what`s this mean?

[GreenBean]

It'd a gal thing. No lumberjacks, soz.

PurseForum

Designer Handbag & Purse Chat.. The Bag Forum

Vogue Forums

Loverly loverly peeps NOT

[rsot]

Ah I get you - you mod those ones too eh? sick ha

[GreenBean]

Nope not there

[GrannyT]

Originally Posted by rsot

various purse forums - what`s this mean?

Places where Lumberjacks are not allowed:D

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I was banned from Etsy because I was accused of being part of a collective. A collective on etsy is (basically) when you log into any account other than yours. Soooo if your 70 year old mother - grandmother whatever needs help and you log into her account to look at her shop. Poof you are a "collective" so you are forced to place on your shop that you are part of her shop. Crazy right? I know. When I declined to claim that was the case that I was not part of another shop they banned me. One day out of no where. BEST part...they IP ban and use what is called a zombie cookie and that is how they track you.

Being the brat that I am . I keep opening shops until I figured out a way around them.

1. I used Hidemyass.com
2. Change your email on paypal and DO NOT use an echeck to pay the bill. They flag your address and your name. The IP is banned. You can get on the site and look at things, but if you want to look at say other pictures of an item or do anything , but glance you will find your locked out. Use a CC from another source that has a DIFFERENT address.
3. Use CCcleaner no matter what everytime you log on Etsy.
4.Change the first picture on your site (just to be sure)
5. Stay off forums ( you dont want any attention , but from buyers)
6. You basically want to fly under the radar and not alert them that its you in any way shape or form.


Etsy is a very nasty nasty company...I suspect as is Ebay. They are all the same really. For every one of us they ban there are 100 new people behind us pushing us out of the way....so why would they honestly care about sellers. As long as they get their cut and the people who work for these company's make their 7.50 an hour that is all that matters to them.

Sooooo IP traced.Home Address Flagged. Paypal address and email flagged. Zombie cookie...so it will take some tries, but eventually you can beat them at their own game.

[lotsof baskets]

Regarding the zombie cookie, does using a different windows user account solve that problem? (As with ebay for example.)

[biggunn]

Is etsy owned by or affiliated with ebay???

[GTB]

welcome,that sounds bad,no reason just got the boot

what ever happened to playing fair,too many cheats about

[northpeak]

Originally Posted by lotsof baskets

Regarding the zombie cookie, does using a different windows user account solve that problem? (As with ebay for example.)

Anybody know the answer to this one?

[rsot]

What is this zombie cookie? Have not had issues with using different window user accounts

[zoneout]

Originally Posted by northpeak

Anybody know the answer to this one?

Yes using different user accounts saves cookies to different user profiles unless you are talking flash cookies then only way is to delete them or use VMs

[rsot]

Still learning about VMware

[cathiefrances]

What is a cccleaner?

[cathiefrances]

i have been on steathly Et**y for over 2 years now, now i just found out the entropay will not service me anymore does anyone have any other recommendations on which to use thank you.

[JPBAILEY]

My account was removed from Et**y because they stated that there was a violation of the trademark infringement, only the trademark the person filed was NOT a trademark when we created the item, and when we checked their trademark, it is pending and not active. Regardless, we didn't mind removing the items, but they suspeneded our store. I was told to try to appeal the case, but when I went to have them call me they never did. I wasn't sure what to address with a letter, and they also state that you can only appeal it if it's NOT infringement. Really need to get an account back active though, any ideas on how to do this?

[StealthJet99]

Originally Posted by zoneout

Yes using different user accounts saves cookies to different user profiles unless you are talking flash cookies then only way is to delete them or use VMs

So a zombie cookie is tracked all over your computer through multiple user accounts?

[robertmark982]

I think they can track IP addresses because its tracking

[ashi]

i think you can transfer cookies to different user ide you made