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Originally Posted by Click (Post 302855)

I was banned from Etsy because I was accused of being part of a collective. A collective on etsy is (basically) when you log into any account other than yours. Soooo if your 70 year old mother - grandmother whatever needs help and you log into her account to look at her shop. Poof you are a "collective" so you are forced to place on your shop that you are part of her shop. Crazy right? I know. When I declined to claim that was the case that I was not part of another shop they banned me. One day out of no where. BEST part...they IP ban and use what is called a zombie cookie and that is how they track you.

Being the brat that I am . I keep opening shops until I figured out a way around them.

1. I used Hidemyass.com
2. Change your email on paypal and DO NOT use an echeck to pay the bill. They flag your address and your name. The IP is banned. You can get on the site and look at things, but if you want to look at say other pictures of an item or do anything , but glance you will find your locked out. Use a CC from another source that has a DIFFERENT address.
3. Use CCcleaner no matter what everytime you log on Etsy.
4.Change the first picture on your site (just to be sure)
5. Stay off forums ( you dont want any attention , but from buyers)
6. You basically want to fly under the radar and not alert them that its you in any way shape or form.


Etsy is a very nasty nasty company...I suspect as is Ebay. They are all the same really. For every one of us they ban there are 100 new people behind us pushing us out of the way....so why would they honestly care about sellers. As long as they get their cut and the people who work for these company's make their 7.50 an hour that is all that matters to them.

Sooooo IP traced.Home Address Flagged. Paypal address and email flagged. Zombie cookie...so it will take some tries, but eventually you can beat them at their own game.