[meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:09:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <594900.13616.qm_at_web56106.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Many thanks Carl for the poswerseller phone number. This has caused me $100 in phone bills today but at least the powerseller people reinstated my ebay account. The downside is that I now have no auctions at all listed and because ebay ended everything I have all the details lost so have to manually list everything again - 1700 auctions.
Likely most wont get relisted as I plan to put more stuff on websites and diversify from ebay.
I also found out why they suspended my account. Apparantly ebay has started a new rule where tahiti pearls are no longer permitted to be listed on ebay.
So, rather than just end the pearl auctions (Or better yet - inform me of the new rule) they just said that I violated their rules to often (I assume more than 4 times since I had 300 tahiti pearl auctions so I violated their listing rules 300 times) and suspended my account.
So anyway, thats why I was suspended and ebay has now kissed and made up so I can list everything except pearls again now.
Cheers
DEAN
www.meteoriteshop.com


--- On Thu, 7/9/09, cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:

> From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension
> To: "dean bessey" <deanbessey at yahoo.com>, "meteoritelist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 7:13 PM
> Dean,
> Hello, I have heard of you many times and you have a great
> reputation so obviously it is not about you. I think it is
> likely issues with your links as well. I assume you are a
> power seller. We power sellers can call and if you call back
> you may get somebody smarter to speak with. The number that
> I use is a toll free 866-519-3229. and I am always able to
> get answers ( but may take more than one call)? . It
> also may be a pearl seller competitor messing with you. As
> you know eBay these days is basically a glorified yard sale.
> Most dealers make much more from their own web sites. Good
> luck to you. Carl
> --
> Carl or Debbie Esparza
> IMCA 5829
> Meteoritemax
>
>
> ---- dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > As if you didnt need another reason to try and
> diversify your business away from ebay here is what happened
> to me this morning. I am not making any part of this up or
> in any way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen King
> nor the guys on CSI could make this up.
> > I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this morning
> from ebay cancelling my auctions and two emails saying that
> my account was suspended.
> > Many auctions were canceled because they were
> "Significantly misrepresented". After 3 hours of chatting
> with people I finally get through to the "trust and safety"
> people after a recommendation from ebay australia.
> > I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way of
> knowing who) decided that my? auctions were
> misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was misrepresented
> just that they look at the description, picture and content
> when deciding was what misrepresented but she had no way of
> knowing exactly what.
> > So I try and reason with her. "If you cant tell me
> what it is about my auctions that was misrepresented how can
> I not repeat the problem in the future?
> > Sit down before you read her response.
> > She said that if ebay told everybody what they look
> for when they decide that auctions are misrepresented then
> people would do things to get around their security checks
> in future auctions so it would be a security violation to
> tell me what it was about my auctions that was being
> misrepresented and therfore canceled (And leading to my
> suspension.) She then said that my suspension was for 7 days
> so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any difference
> because you cant list on ebay for 7 days again anyway.
> > Reasoning is getting harder. "OK, for my information.
> in seven days time when I get back on ebay again can you
> tell me what about my auctions was misrepresented so that I
> can fix them and not violate your policy in the future so I
> dont get kicked off again?".
> > Sorry, telling you what the problem is would be a
> security violation and if people who what they looked for
> would do things to circumvent their rules in the future".
> > This is going nowhere. I wish that I had a copy of
> that phone conversation. It would have looked good on
> youtube.
> > In addition, the emails that ended the auctions said
> this:
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > eBay has restricted your ability to list new items as
> a result of a policy violation. We'd be happy to lift this
> restriction once you've completed a brief tutorial about
> this policy. The next time you sign in to your eBay account,
> click on ?Sell? and ?Sell Your Item.? You?ll then be asked
> to take the tutorial. Once you've completed it, you can
> begin selling again immediately.
> > __________________________________________
> > Unfortunately, doing so is not possible so I cant even
> sign on. Even their emails dont make sense.
> > So with a bit of luck, sometime in the next 7 days
> they will tell me what was wrong with my auctions so that I
> can fix it and not violate their policy - although maybe
> they will not because doing so might enable me to fix the
> problem out and circumvent their rules in the future.
> > I plan to spend the next 7 days getting some shopping
> cart websites built and trying out other sites to sell
> stuff. Anybody got any ideas where else to list stuff?
> Anybody know somebody with ebay who will talk to me?
> > Apparantly it was my pearl auctions that was somehow
> misrepresented but its not possible to find out why. It
> sgoing to be a pain relisting 1700 auctions. It probably
> wont get done - especially if I can figure out how to build
> a nice shopping cart website
> > Cheers
> > DEAN
> > On a completely different note I need to come up with
> around $2000 in my paypal account in the next week so I am
> particularly into dealing from my website right now
> WWW.METEORITESHOP.COM so if you see anything let me know.
> > Also, you people out there who owe me money, now is a
> good time to pay up.
> >
> >
> >? ? ???
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