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Please Help!!! Ebay is stupid?

John Lam · 2010-10-26T22:54:21+00:00

Recently i found a product which i found would make a decent profit. I purchased a shipment of it and started selling on ebay. I made 1 sell and a couple listings that were about to finish. Then i recieved a notice saying that company had filed a complaint that i infringed trademark and copyright. The email that they told me to message back was a yahoo email. Is it really the company that complained? THis company is a big company and i highly doubt they would use a free email service such as Yahoo.

eyecandy

Hi,

I have had the same problem with ebay suspending my account saying that the items I sold breeched copyright violations. There are a HUGE number of other sellers selling the exact same items still on ebay however for some reason I have been targeted (am thinking by a larger seller trying to push me out) and suspended from ebay.

I have sent them numerous emails trying to sort out this problem and am just receiving the same email which basically say's they aren't interested in looking into this suspension.

Apparently alot of other sellers are having the exact same problem with ebay suspensions.

I wouldn't recommend you relist the items unless you can prove that they are the real deal as a suspension is not an easy thing to have reviewed or lifted.

Maybe try another item and list the items you have on another site... is so frustrating I know!!

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Good Luck

wmga73

I just try to find alternative to ebay and as you advised ebid.

I registered with them yesterday then try to upgrade to seller+ after that try to re-login found that the account get hold .

So really a good start, leaving suspension with ebay and going to hold with ebid.

I think it becomes a new 2008 fashion holding and suspend the sellers accounts.

Thanks

grahamg

Hi
I just try to find alternative to ebay and as you advised ebid.
I registered with them yesterday then try to upgrade to seller+ after that try to re-login found that the account get hold .
So really a good start, leaving suspension with ebay and going to hold with ebid.
I think it becomes a new 2008 fashion holding and suspend the sellers accounts.
Thanks

Can I suggest, you open a different account with ebay, list an ebook on where people can buy cheap fashion products (obviosuly dont put your suppliers in there!) , classified section of Information Products this way you will not pay Final Value Fees with ebay!

Get them to opt in for the ebook or charge them, then redirect them to your website to buy from you?

I don't know if thats a work around for you : 8)

naronson

CHECK TO SEE IF THE MESSAGE CAME FROM EBAY!!!!!!! If there is no duplicate email in your messages file on ebay, DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING IN THAT EMAIL. This is a scammer trying to get your personal info. Report it to spoof@ebay.com

I get dubious emails all the time, usually trying to say I never sent their laptop. Again, if no duplicate message in ebay, total scam!

grahamg

Me too...I must get 2/3 from ebay and 5 from Paypal, surely by now they'd get the picture!

It's real funny, cause a few weeks ago, I told ebay to shove my account! But I still get these emails.

I have an email address I used 4 years ago on ebay and I still get emails claiming my PaYPAL account is lIMITED, CLICK HERE TO SOLVE now!

designerthriftshop

Good question. How do you deal with a suspended account?

grahamg

You can appeal to ebays custoemr service - good luck!

I opened another acocunt!

designerthriftshop

Yes but don't they cross check address, phone #'s, credit cards or PayPal accounts?

grahamg

There are work arounds for everything! :

designerthriftshop

What are the work arounds?

wmga73

As a seller suffering from the new fees, be honest with buyers by doing the following:

1-Gather all your buyers emails.

2-Send your buyers the article

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3-invite,direct or offer your buyers to the ebay alternatives start by your self building new business in

the new auction sites allowing you to transfer your feedback from ebay like:

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4-This is the real boycott and strike for ebay and send the very hard message to consider that there is always an alternatives.

grahamg

The only real winner will be ebay, do you really think they care about their sellers?

If they cared where their revenue came from, they would look after sellers rather than penalise them.

The ONLY way to make eBay sit up and take note would be for a month long boycott from 90% of sellers. This would hit them hard, were it hurts - in the pocket! :

dtdistribution

I haven't sold on Ebay for quite a while. The fees are too high. The last product I tried to sell would have had over half of its profits eaten up by Ebay and PayPal fees. (That's if I wanted to price it competitively so it would sell)

These folks are just charging way too much and doing way too little for it.

A few months ago one of my friends had his account suspended by Ebay for attempting to sell an airsoft gun. This is after he had contacted them to see why it was taking so long for the item show in the search results. The young woman he spoke to said airsoft was fine to sell and to be patient because sometimes it takes a little time to get the listing up. He says fine and then they suspended him for selling airsoft guns.

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