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Are EBay stricter around Christmas?
 

I've been making new stealths for ages now, selling the same items and for some reason the accounts get suspended every time I list now?

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I've not experienced anything like this...

Are they high risk items?

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Not particularly, bizarre.

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Yes they are in my opinion.


18 years on ebay and I always noticed an uptick of issues come Nov-Dec every year.

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I haven't been selling as long as sandy but for the years I've been doing EB it was normally good for the Christmas season. Pp would be a minor issue because of limiting issues but EB would never throw a selling restriction on a built and aged account during the winter holidays.

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Dannnng sandy. You started when EB also started? Mad knowledgeable and mad respect.

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I started selling last November and now I have it down and of course u need to adapt to the ever changing procedures they throw at us

That is why this forum is here to gain strength in numbers, where the solo guy out there trying to get back is blind and walks right into there traps

Here in the forum we all work together so that we can adapt and survive

But after a year on I have all the patterns down on when there's heightened security when it easies up, and it's all about what ebay wants they know we are out there, but there are times if the year they need accounts and let us just go wild making. Them. And than there's times when they look at total listings and what they need for the holiday season numbers and factor in how many accounts will never make it so about 7 months before Xmas there's some nice raises

To tell you the truth I'm making accounts now like crazy every day and ml start using them in January by June ill have 50x of what I had last year and a clue

So I'm excited for next yeAr already because I did phenomenal with the first accounts I made now that I know what exactly to do from beginning to end , I'm just looking forward to having tons of mature accounts right in that window when the raises are just given out

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Yes, old timer.

Actually was invited to the first Ebay live to be rewarded as one of the first to ever reach a certain amount of sales.

Since I was in the antique business my entire life I was asked early on what names should they included as manufacturers in that section.

I was the first to ever sell a Longaberger Basket on ebay.

Then came the changes, Whitman came in and started screwing up the place and before you know it my account which was flawless was banned for sending what they felt was a personal attack on a buyer after they pulled a bait and switch on me. I told them we were going to show up in one day on their doorstop and will get my item or my money back.

It took me a a while and got the account back.

3 years ago they did it again for a lame reason as everyone knows.

I was able to get it back again.

So I have my original ebay account and it has 7 lives left.

I actually made what I think is the first stealth account ever in 2003 playing around with helping a fellow antiquer set up an ebay account.

Did not know the monster I had created back then. One of the top accounts I still have today.

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I set up over 20 accounts back in 1997 back in college. The good ole days. Still have all login info. Just reading the emails from back then from ebay is funny compared to the mc warnings now. Lmao

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What's the suspension notice?

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Elaborate all steps and then we can discuss - this is way too general comment.

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I get hit with MC099 MC013 MC008 All sorts

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Sounds to me like something is going fundamentally wrong with your accounts, or it could be the product you are trying to sell is deemed as extremely high risk, in which case they just use any excuse to get rid

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But this is the same product I've been selling on new accounts for 8 months?

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Are there big competitors, I have heard if they start bitching then you start dying and around christmas they may bitch a lot.

Also all the codes you mention just seem to be related to vero when I searched on google.

And it is funny but with every one of the codes I searched there is always a product code comes up for some collectable. I wonder if that is intentional to muddy the waters when you try and find out what they are banning you for.