[meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:43:45 -0700
Message-ID: <C67D1231.534B%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Dean,
            Beware of casting your pearls before swine.
            Michael


On 7/9/09 8:09 PM, "dean bessey" <deanbessey at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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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