Hey everyone, first I would like to say that from the little amount of information I have read, I know this is THE place that can help me to get back selling again.
Thanks for everyone's contribution to this very useful board
I am a uni student in the UK who started selling on ebay about a year ago. I'm nowhere near a business and sold stuff to basically fund weekly expenses which are typical of a student. My first ebay account is about 4-5 years old and I have 4 accounts in total, all in my name. This is because I had plans to sell different things in each account and one of them is used to buy stuff only.
About 8 months ago, I hit some financial difficulties and unfortunately took an easy way out to get some money, selling ⊗⊗⊗⊗ gear on ebay. It was ⊗⊗⊗⊗ designer shoes to be exact, and though at the beginning I sold a few, VERO stopped my auctions on 3 occasions. On the first two occasions, they cancelled the listings, but me being a fool
I listed for a third time as I was desperate to shift them, they suspended me on the third time. I was suprised and panicked a little as I had no idea what to do. I then logged into another 2 of my accounts, to check if I owed any fees and if they had been suspended as well.
Then 3 days later I receive emails from ebay that these accounts I had logged into are now suspended as well for violating ebay's policies of not using any other accounts while one is suspended. I was under the impression that I could log in to check if I owed any outstanding fees, I did not 'use' them in any way such as contact other ebayers, bid, or sell or anything like that. Ebay was not having it however and kept the two accounts suspended. I then emailed ebay and told them that my ebay accounts mean a lot to me etc etc. and then amazingly, I received an apology and they restored ONE of my other two suspended accounts, but refused to restore the originally suspended one and the other suspended one for logging in.
I learnt that I had to send documents to verify my identity to restore my accounts. I sent them off for the first account, the one that got VERO'd, and it was restored without delay. However, to my suprise, for the second account, ebay claimed the documents were ineligible, even though they were exactly the same for both accounts
I then sent them the documents for a second time, and after 2 weeks of no response, I emailed them and I received the same automated response that ebay have decided to keep my account suspended and won't be considered for restoration until summer 2008.
I know its not long to go for summer 2008, but I have quite a bit of stock just sitting in my room with a fair amount of cash tied up in them. It might be pocket money's worth to a lot of other memebers here but its a lot of money to me
I tried selling the ⊗⊗⊗⊗ designer shoes on another auction site, ebid, but I was suprised that they were removed within a few hours. I now had the feeling that I was being watched lol! So I didn't bother trying for a second time. The sales on these other lesser known auction sites have not been good, I have only sold 2 items in just over a month! If this was ebay I would have cleared them out in 2 weeks max!
So, what do you guys think I should do? Wait till summer 2008 and try to get my last remaining suspended account restored, or follow the advice by members on this board and open up a new anon account and sell off the remaining stock? If things go well, I will continue selling stuff but NO MORE ⊗⊗⊗⊗ stuff, I want to go legit this time. Thanks in advance.