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Ebay - buying from auctions then reselling on ebay
 

hi all, been reading the forum i read that ebay basically can say your account is suspended forever etc. was wanting to make sure that buying items from ebay and then relisting them back on ebay at higher price is okay to be doing?

i would think ebay would be happy as the items are firstly getting sold and then once relisted if sold again the make more profit but then im reading bad things about ebay so wanted to see what others think.

cheers

It makes no difference to e/b that you have bought your stock through their site.

If you mess up or they decide they don't want you doing business on their platform then they will close your account regardless.

hi noneother

yeah i thought as much but just making sure as im hearing somes stories on this great forum.

Only suggestion I have is if you are reselling, do it via STEALTH. Make sure buying account and selling account have no links...just to be extra safe

hi rsot for what reasons do you say that? is it frowned upon on ebay only there is a previous thread entitled: Reselling items bought on eBay by Elisek
however it keeps coming up not subscribed user so i can not read it. i try to subscribe and it says im already logged in.
is it buyers will frown upon it or ebay?

cheers

ebay is fickle.

Users have re-sold items that they could prove came from ebay. Yet ebay killed the account.

Not that the idea is not doable, but it should be done with due care.
Certainly there should be a realization that ebay might not like the selling plan.
:pout:

No there is no problem with reselling stuff on eb. I think what rsot was alluding to was just sound business and ste*lth practice. Even if you do this with real accts it just makes sense to have different accts for buying and selling.

hi yes i agree going down the stealth route seems best however there seems a lot to know for getting them up and running, i would personally purhcase from this site the accounts however still require being clued up to maintain the accounts and not get banned also.

thanks for the replies guys

Not too bad to learn when you apply yourself - but if you like buying accounts and operating them via stealth, that also works.