Re: My eBay HORROR Story!
This is exactly why eBay Stealth exists. I used to believe that the only people who lost their eBay accounts were scam-artists, fraudsters and counterfeiters. Then I got suspended and I started looking around on the web for a way to get my account back. I found thousands of eBay horror stories. Tens of thousands of people have been kicked of off eBay. They can't ALL be bad sellers.
I found this website and I have been in stealth mode ever since. It was a blessing in disguise. Why? Because now, if eBay shuts down one on my accounts, it represents maybe 5% of my business, not 100% of my business.
And they DO favor the larger sellers.
If YOUR feedback rating was 99.2% in the local community, you would be elected businessman of the year. But in eBay's eyes, you are a disaster and a threat to their buyers. But this only applies to individuals. If you are NewEgg, with a 99.2% feedback rating, well, that's just fine.
Seriously, check out NewEgg's listings. They even manage to HIDE their feedback rating. eBay would never give individual sellers that ability. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE NewEgg and think they are a great company. What I don't love is the way that eBay treats individual sellers.
What makes me mad is that individual sellers MADE eBay what it is today. Without the individual sellers, they would have been out of business shortly after they were started. eBay was NOT the first auction site on the internet, but they WERE the first one where ANYONE could buy and sell. That is no longer the case. Anybody can open an account, but that is NOT THE SAME as being able to sell. They became a corporation and decided that only other corporations are trustworthy. The little guy gets screwed again.
Stealth is our way of evening the playing field. Stealth WORKS and it allows us to spread our risk among several accounts so that they cannot shut us down completely.
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