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accounts banned during november-december?
 

hello, i feel like recently there has been a massive sweep going on throughout the ebay stealth community.

me a lot of partners of mine have had atleast 20 accounts banned within these 2 months.

(some were banned a day or two after)

(some were banned after listing something for 3$)

i feel like stealth has died out during the holidays and its really difficult to move to 10k$+ merchandise i have laying around

has anyone else had this problem too? accounts dropping like flies

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

DEFINITELY harsher during holidays... were your bans the "suspended indefinitely" type OR "cant list till you send us documents" type ???

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

I agree. For me, it was mostly because I ramped up volume like crazy during Black Friday and onwards and couldn't keep up with my orders. For once, I can't hate on eBay too hard, even though I lost all but 2 of my accounts. I too lost about 15 accounts.

Personally, I got a mix. One or 2 were outright suspended. Most were requests for documentation, and of these, some were a request for ID, and others just wanted tracking (or say they say for now)

Paypal was even worse than eBay this season. F*ck them.

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

Well tbh you cant really blame ebay, most of our sales are pretty average throughout the year and them booom, Nov-Dec time sales increase massively so it just detects warnings from ebay so ebay just think something dodgy is going on
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im just going to try and keep my sales smooth and very slowly increase

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

Had an account get a few sales of cheaper items, then the removal of listings for "replicas". Few days later, perma ban. Usually, the cheaper items I start an account up with never have a problem for these types of violations. I dont know if it was a human ban or the typical Holiday ban. I also had a monster account get destroyed last Jan after the Holidays.

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

Were they replicas, and did you specify that in the listing? Or were they just pointing the finger and puffing their chest

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

But the accusation of selling of replicas is real? IF so....makes sense on their part.

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

They were replicas. But they were listed in a way the customer knew, but it wasnt a keyword a bot would grab.

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

Oh, I totally get why it was taken down. But I am about 95% sure it was a human that did it. They were just too well listed for a bot to figure it out. Plus, the items were very cheap. Nothing that would really throw flags out there in the higher dollar copies.

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

if the accounts are newer, and you are selling those items, the holiday season can be a little bit more brutal.

For 2018, I suggest you start making accounts based on the stealth guide and start early, so you can build up more reputation on them

Re: accounts banned during november-december?
 

Yeah lost an account right at the end of November. They requested docs, provided them and 72 hours later permanent suspension.


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