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Banned From Ebay – “you’re not permitted to use eBay at all.”

By Jeremy Blake on October 18, 2008 7 Comments

Thank you eBay!

This actually happened nearly a year ago.

How I Got Banned

I was listing a product. I listed said product in the wrong category. I think I listed it in “digital products” instead of the proper category “Miscellaneous”. Oooops, my bad!

BANNED!

Just like that! In months leading up to the ban, I’m pretty sure I paid over $1,000 in ebay fees. I don’t understand how ebay can feel comfortable doing this to loyal customers. Right now I’m appealing my decision on ebay’s live chat. We’ll see how that goes. I don’t expect to get too far, nor will I be very disappointed if I don’t. They lose a customer, I have to think outside the box for a new venue of selling products, we all win.

Congratulations, eBay! You just lost another customer!

Update: Unfortunately, the reason why your account says that is not available to me. I can still help you though by getting you in touch with our Trust and Safety team who specializes in this. They can clarify why the account got suspended.

^ This was after they told me they would look into it on live chat. I appreciate the scripts I am fed. Makes me happy. Thanks, Indian on the other end.

About Jeremy Blake

Jeremy is a self-proclaimed socially-awkward penguin living in Utah. He makes money online. As he sleeps.

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  • http://www.nathat.com Nate

    Cowboy,

    I hate ebay. They did this exact same thing to me!
    Well, not exactly.. but they did ban me and I was paying them a TON and had almost perfect feedback. I was even a powerseller!

  • Phillip Hill

    Same thing here!!! I am starting to try new outlets now. I blog about my pains also. =( http://www.wigician.com

  • http://EliteEternity.com admin

    @Phillip

    Ebay just doesn’t seem to understand….they’re going down in the long run. I checked out your blog today. Good stuff.

  • http://EliteEternity.com admin

    @ Nate

    lol. Yeah, ebay has a way of hurting feelings. It’s their feelings that will be hurt when they go under, though.

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  • http://www.auctionstartup.com James Cochrane

    It does seem pretty counter intuitive that they would ban you when you have spent that much money with them. Especially since it was an innocent error. You weren’t try to pull anything on them. It’s not right. If they keep doing stuff like that they are going to be losing more and more customers. They aren’t the only auction site. They may be the biggest right now but like I said, keep those business practices up and…

  • http://www.benson-search.com Nick

    Oh how i hate ebay, let me count the ways…..

    I have been banned and even after going to trust and safty, giving them like a war and peace size amount of docs and info they still say no still banned and we cant give you any more reason why.

    Selling dvds like at my site benson-search.com and had invoices proving real. oh i hate you ebay, i hope you go backrupt and discover that just because you can doesnt mean you should