eBay TROUBLES as usual

stanislav · #1 10-12-2012

This is ridiculous!!! So I bought 13 items within 24 hours and apparently this is the reason why I got suspended from eBay FOREVER.

How is buying cheap items and paying for them is posing a risk to eBay ??? Does it make any sense to you? Anyone? Not only that but I had to verify my identity TWICE today.

I am coming to my final conclusion that eBay system is extremely flawed and that eBay's customer support has literally no clue what they are doing. No one on eBay knows what the other is actually gong on so when they explain to you why you were suspended they actually have NO CLUE themselves.

So verification means literally NOTHING to eBay. I mean if you can be verified by two separate agents the same day and still get suspended because you bought too many items within 24 hours then there is nothing that anyone can ever do right because they will find one reason or another to suspend your ebay account.

AmazonStealth · #2 10-12-2012

What exactly did you buy?

mcmx · #3 10-12-2012

Well...that is a lot of items to buy within 24 hours. Especially if you mentioned they were cheap ones. The account was probably fairly new, was it? It looks like you're trying to pad your feedback...that's why

stanislav · #4 10-12-2012

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Originally Posted by AmazonStealth

What exactly did you buy?

Why does it matter what I bought. I bought PHYSICAL ITEMS. Cheap items for 99c each. I have done this before and everything was just fine.
The thing that frustrates me the most is that I had to verify my identity today TWICE.

eBay would throw me anything it could come up with just to suspend my account. I got MC018, MC010, MC045. And then finally I got MC999.

Does any of this makes sense to you ?

stanislav · #5 10-12-2012

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Originally Posted by mcmxcivjm

Well...that is a lot of items to buy within 24 hours. Especially if you mentioned they were cheap ones. The account was probably fairly new, was it? It looks like you're trying to pad your feedback...that's why

The account was from 2009 but inactive. I tried to turn it into a seller account yesterday. So before I listed anything i bought cheap items and left feedback.

And when I listed my item I SPECIFICALLY used test listing just to prove everyone else that when they suspend you for being new to eBay it's not because you sold a high risk item.

eBay simply finds ANY reason to give you to explain as to why you got suspended. In reality there is no exact reason since it is the BOT and I repeat it is ultimately the BOT who decides the fate of your account.

Only on rare occasion when it is manually reviewed by risk team they can decide one way or another but they policy is probably to not let ANY new seller who got suspended to be reinstated because they already have enough trusted sellers on eBay.

sergfro · #6 10-12-2012

trying to buy cheapies to build feedback ehhhhh.. big NO NO if you do it too fast which looks like you did

stanislav · #7 10-12-2012

I got flagged probably because I bought "too many" items while I became a seller.

I can assure you that even if a bought 100 items and paid for them as an eBay buyer eBay would not suspend my account.

The moment you list anything even if there is nothing on your listing it will not show up on eBay listing. It is immediately flagged!

MM78 · #8 10-12-2012

Because ebay see's it as feedback manipulation. Don't do it again son.

stanislav · #9 10-12-2012

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Originally Posted by sergfro

trying to buy cheapies to build feedback ehhhhh.. big NO NO if you do it too fast which looks like you did

I have to disagree again. Yesterday i tried the same thing with another stealth account I had with zero feedback and the moment I listed my first item it showed up for a few minutes then i posted another one and all of them disappeared.

And obviously I knew my account will be suspended soon. Which it was. So no feedback or with feedback it still gets you suspended.

stanislav · #10 10-12-2012

The only conclusion I am coming to is if your account has been inactive for a long time and you start selling right away , even if one listing just after you created sellers account then THIS might 100 percent flag your account and suspend it.

GreenBean · #11 10-12-2012

When do you want your name changed from Stanislav to Einstein?

Ruined a 2009 account to prove what was known?

Aint ebay that is clueless.

Bottom line is TRUST. If ebay perceives no trust, no account might survive.

jamcocktail21 · #12 10-12-2012

Stanislav we had the same thread before and i remember when you were so convinced that nothing is gonna happen if you buy a lot of cheap items with your account,remember??

you mentioned that you can buy 100 items and nothing will happen well here you are bro

sorry to hear that.......

Yes that's sucks i lost one of my account doing this before,bought 8 cheap items and in one hour account is limited....

Since then i can buy max of two items at the time....

stanislav · #13 10-12-2012

Once again I would like to repeat that buying a lot of cheap items is not what is going to flag your account.

What DOES flag your account is probably selling immediately after you became seller.

Too many so called feedbacks is just their EXCUSE!

How else are they going to tell you why they suspended your account ?

stanislav · #14 10-12-2012

I have had one account where i bought about 100 feedbacks in one day!

Nothing happened, nothing was triggered.

So I still don't think it's the amount of feedbacks.

Right now I am looking at one of my recent accounts where i bought on October 9th over 10 feedbacks.

And? I sold 18 items, 10 the first time I listed! It works PERFECTLY FINE!

GreenBean · #15 10-12-2012

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Originally Posted by stanislav

The only conclusion I am coming to is if your account has been inactive for a long time and you start selling right away , even if one listing just after you created sellers account then THIS might 100 percent flag your account and suspend it.

This is a quite valid conclusion. So let's expand, eh?

2009 created account sits idle for many months.

As there is no mention you surfed etc or did anything other than sign in & buy items, let's consider what ebay programs/BOTS might be flagging?

Password accepted: Tick OK

Verified payment source with the account: ?? not specified : warning 1

Purchase of low cost items : warning 2

Purchase of more low cost items : warning 3

4 lots of activity and only one flies.... account is flagged.

Now, buyer takes the quantum leap to SELL & List : KILL TIME.

Put in your extra activities & nothing happened to make ebay 'think' the account was anything but suspect.
Like I said, no trust, no ebay account

AmazonStealth · #16 10-12-2012

this kid is jumping all over on why he thinks ebay is at fault

GreenBean · #17 10-12-2012

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Originally Posted by AmazonStealth

this kid is jumping all over on why he thinks ebay is at fault

So?

There's learning info. What to do, what not to do!

Elijah · #18 10-12-2012

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Originally Posted by AmazonStealth

this kid is jumping all over on why he thinks ebay is at fault

Here we go again. You should stop using that term to refer to members as it is just patronising... you know nothing of his age so it has no place on the forum, and even if you did it would have no relevance. This is the second time that I have seen you use it so casually.

And I agree with stanislav completely in everything that he has written so far. It's all down to eBay's abysmal system and bots.

LoopHole · #19 10-12-2012

Not calling you a liar but i don't think you told us the whole story here. 13 items in 24 hours is actually not a lot. Especially at cheap prices. I don't see them suspending you because of this.

GreenBean · #20 10-12-2012

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Originally Posted by LoopHole

Not calling you a liar but i don't think you told us the whole story here. 13 items in 24 hours is actually not a lot. Especially at cheap prices. I don't see them suspending you because of this.

How about the SELLERS being known as feedback sellers

What might that do?

stanislav · #21 10-12-2012

I totally agree wih Elijah, it's ride to call someone a kid. Most of us are adults here.
I am actually 31 years old .

I have enough experience to say what I say. Everyday I read a lot of nonsense written here and I say nothing. Let them think this way.... There is a lot of conflicting information that is written about eBay and some of it even outdated.

Buying cheaps items is not what is going to suspend your account.

However buying cheap items after you just created your account and then listing ANYTHING will suspend yours.

stanislav · #22 10-12-2012

Basically what I am REALLY angry about is the fact that it was US dedicated sellers who made eBay what it is and now after so many years eBay doesn't need any more new sellers so they do what they like with anyone new.

You don't need any more sellers and once all big stores come to ebay they will definitely not need even those who are already selling.

Are you getting my drift?

They will eventually eliminate 90 percent of sellers on eBay and only the biggest and the most trustful will stay.