My eBay account has been suspended for “abuse”, and eBay won return my e-mails asking why, what next?
Atom12: I may do that. I actually did get a reply to my first message, which truthfully only stated that my account was suspended for “Abusing eBay” … basically, it told me what I already knew, and said to go through the reinstatement process. I may take a stab at the live chat first and see what they can uncover.
EndsOfInvention …. exactly. You just report that it violates the listing guidelines (you can go to different links for that and copyright violations for example), but you can’t write in there specifically why anymore. I do miss that functionality, and that’s very true, if someone were to figure out it was me reporting them (although it’s *supposed* to be anonymous), I can sense retaliation. Atom12: I had previously used Live Chat, and the moment they said it wasn’t billing, they just said “it’s out of my hands, contact the Safe Harbor department”. I may try again and suggest that the only way I can envision this happening is that my account may have been hijacked and to report it as such and see where that goes.
It’s known as “phishing“. I receive emails like that too, and I don’t have an eBay account. If you used a link in that email to try to get your account back, then your account is now thoroughly compromised. Change your password immediately, and check to see if any money is missing from any financial instrument which can be gotten to from your eBay account.
Video games. Both new and used, mostly harder to find stuff, a great range of systems. No set pattern really. Both on half.com and on eBay. More in the last couple of months then for awhile, but very consistently on Half for quite a while. I’ve had my account for 8 years. Feedback is 120, a couple of negative’s which I have handled over that time, gotten it up from about 95 in the beginning of November through some selling. (I’m getting married in May, could use the funds) I had to pay fees on Saturday (and I made sure this wasn’t the cause of the issue). Then I listed some new games on Half.com (old stuff, last-gen, never did play), sent out feedback for orders in December, and reported in a couple of Half listings where they said the game was “Brand New” but also said it was opened, thus it wasn’t brand new. (You don’t report listings anymore by writing your own description, you just send a link to the listing policies dept.) I can see where listing some new games on Half might have
if someone were to figure out it was me reporting them (although it’s *supposed* to be anonymous), I can sense retaliation I was thinking more along the lines of someone in the eBay department that handles the reports thinking “this guy keeps reporting other users but I can’t see what he’s reporting them for. He must be falsely reporting valid listings to try and get his competitors suspended. Time to break out the banhammer!
