sacka_man | 09-04-2013 08:10 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by dealagreeproceed
(Post 482800)
I shall bury her tonight. out of all my accounts I loved this one the most. EBHAY WILL PAY FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Careful, it doesn't help to be emotional. EBHAY doesn't care about your emotional connection to your account, to them you are just another seller who has a trademark violation (legit or not is irrelevant) on his account, so they've made a decision to trade away the potential trouble that these types of accounts may cause for the lost revenue that you would have generated for their company in eBay fees.
I encourage you to try to get your account back but I wouldn't count on it. My main eBay account with my personal information on it (which I also loved) got banned a few years back when I over exaggerated (didn't lie) the condition of my items and had a dissatisfied buyer, and at that time my star ratings were low (~4.1). This is circa 2010 when they first introduced star ratings. The account was a "Power Seller" at one point in the past and had 3,000+ feedbacks and was several years old, and I called and called and called, and emailed everyone I could to get my account back. Many people promised that somebody would email me back within 2-3 days but i never heard back from anybody. Also it seems that the only people I can speak with on the phone is people from a foreign country making a low wage and that speak poor English. To them it's not worth it to use the $15/hour people that speak good English on a person whose account has already been banned.
eBay is ruthless when it comes to this and there is no "grace period" or amount of time that they would forgive a wrongdoing in the past.
Today I don't have a stealth account, I registered a LLC and registered a new eBay account under it... so the information eBay has about the LLC is legit, and all the business is legit too, but I still don't provide any real information about myself (only information about the company), for fear it will get connected. So it still could be considered a stealth account in this regard.
If I were you I would try to get your account back because it never hurts to try, and you will gain experience with how eBay operates in the process, and there is still a chance you can get your account back. It's all up to them. I would explain to them how you acknowledge the trademark violation and that you are chasing the vendor who sold it to you for a refund and looking into moving forward with court proceedings. I would explain how it has emotionally hurt both yourself and your family because it's your intention to do good business and that you feel somebody has taken advantage of you, and that in the future you will be more selective about the vendors you buy from and the items you list on eBay ... blah blah blah ... say a lot of BS like this but be sincere about it too (if that makes sense).
Happy sells. :) |