 New Member of this Group
While I am new to this group (I just found you yesterday using Google), I am not new to ebay, I have been playing this game for 10 years now since 1998. I have been through hundreds of seller accounts over the years, which of course means I have been suspended hundreds of times. I hope to gain some new insights into playing the ebay game as well as to pass on some tips that I have discovered. I don't have a lot of time right now, but I will pass on a few experiences and tips that I have been using.
1. My most "harrowing" experience was in 2000-2001 when I had the police show up at my front door, it seems ebay had filed a complaint with my local PD that I had been "trespassing" on their my site and ebay claimed I was violating the law. The experience was mostly humorous as I showed the police several examples of emails I received advertising my right to sell, these emails were sent by ebay to my suspended accounts. It was like ebay suspended an account and then sent me advertising emails that I should sell. As the "meeting" was somewhat humorous and the police were kind of laughing at the ebay emails, I asked them "what could I possibly be arrested for" and "what laws might I be breaking". They said there was noting illegal going on.
2. For credit card registration, I have been using a certain virtual credit card service for about 5 years. To the best of my knowledge, I have never had an account suspended for using this service. When I need a new ebay account, I just purchase another virtual credit card, the cost is a few dollars. I do not want to post the name of the service in an open forum, perhaps the sysop or other trusted member can let me know how to best share this information.
3. For the last 1-2 years, my accounts have mainly been suspended for non payment of fees. My accounts last 2-3 months. I usually pay some of the first invoice I receive, I cant afford to pay the entire invoice, but I make a small payment to pay what I can. When the police had come to my house years ago, they reminded me that it is not fraud to not be able to pay your bills but is is best to make a minimum payment on your credit cards or other revolving accounts. If someone ever gets sued and has to file for bankruptcy, all debts are discharged unless fraud can be proven.
4. I use paypal exclusively and have never had a hold placed on my paypal account. To the best of my knowledge, eBay and paypal have never linked my accounts when I set up a new account. I have 3 paypal accounts but have only used one. I use the same account with different email addresses. I have had the paypal account I currently use since 2001. When my account balance gets over 100.00 on it, I transfer to checking account or use debit card with cash back. I make checking account transfers 4-5 times a week. After 24 hours, the transfer shows "completed" in paypal log and apparently cannot be recalled.
5. I have used ebay blackthorne exclusively for many years, I used the program before ebay purchased Blackthorne. To the best of my knowledge, I have never had an account suspended due to a link to Blackthorne. I se3ll the same items over and over and it is easy to use Blackthorne to set up new accounts. I just "backup" the database to a new database when I need a new account.
More Later ....
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(Suspended for Life)..
