Hi All
Firstly, I am so glad i have found this forum and thank everyone who has posted so far and built a wonderful resource tool
And especially BIG THANKS to Aspkin for putting this site and offering the info for free
Well a little about me, my life has changed for me overnight last week - incurring the wonderful wrath of eBay overnight and loosing nearly 10 eBay IDs overnight and combined feedback of over 30,000 transactions
I have been on eBay late 1999, and it has been my full time profession for the last 5 years, and i employ 3 staff.
Selling under several IDs i had different streams of income (each appropriate to the ID) and boasted several powerseller rating on these IDs and a turnover of over £50,000($100,000) per month.
and overnight ALL taken out - ZIP BANG gone linking to my only suspended account which went over 3 years ago. Not a word, the same generic email to each
I am now left with no means of income, eBay was my livelihood, pays my mortgage, feeds my kids, pays my employee’s wages and sat on an eBay specific inventory of stock worth about £400,000 :(
Jeez, you only realise the S**T is hitting the fan when it’s too late
This happened last week and i have spent, many hours and hours researching, reading, evaluation all the info out there on the 'dark side'
of eBay and PayPal that i have never been exposed to before
Despite it being my livelihood, i have hated eBay & PayPal alike with a passion, in the past 3 years of so greedy corporate goats forever chewing and leaching the grass off a
bald lawn
Anyhow, this has happened and theres no way of getting away from that now and crying over split milk, i need to take positive action to get back on line
From what i have read on these forums so avidly, i thought i would give out some opinions and thoughts on what i have read over this past day and my current situation
1. Something NEW has definitely been implemented in this past month 'behind the scenes'
I know this to be true because i have been using eBay oblivious to ways ones should keep 'anonymous' and from out of their cross hair
In fact i would go so far to say as i should have been ran down years ago by the eBay truck
(You name it i have done, accessed eBay ID from abroad, crossed referenced PayPal accounts, added real details, read emails from eBay,
not cleared cookies/histories, used same IP address to access several and many accounts)
Despite breaching all the NO NOs - ALL my IDs have all been fine for such a long time, the oldest suspended ID was from 1999 !
2. With all these IDs i have several PayPal accounts appropriate to the eBay ID - some in virtual names some in my real business names
Yet all these are fine, spotless not even a warning or not even a smell of limitation
3. I am based in the UK and it appears USA is affected in the same way
4. The recent posts on this forum i have read from these past few days regarding the none acceptance of gift cards for new accounts ,
i think eBay must have the prefixes of these cards to red-flag, the pre fix will be same 4 digits for each card
5. i know of several other PowerSellers who have had their multiple IDs taken out in this past week or so
again some with FB over 10,000
I will close on this note:
i) Is anyone on this forum from the UK
ii) Does anyone know of any pre paid visa/MasterCard gift cards here in UK ?
iii) Can an account be set up from the USA using one of these VC cards but i could sell on here in the ?
iv) Does anyone have an established eBay account & PayPal account (FB of 10+) ready to purchase/take over?
I look forward to giving some help on this forum
thanks
PAULUSS