EBAY Warning

If you take a look through my posts here, the reason for this site should be pretty clear. A warning to E-Bay users as to what, precisely can happen, and What E-Bay will do here

This site was inspired by my own recent suspension, after doing nothing wrong . Even E-Bay won’t tell me anything directly, only the following garbage is pasted into every mail:

Your account was suspended from eBay due to the violation of our
Unwelcome Buying ? Intent to Disrupt policy.

Our records indicate that you bid with the primary intent to disrupt a
listing. eBay defines this as bidding on or purchasing an item solely to
disrupt the seller’s listing, with no intention of completing the
transaction.

In order to continue with your appeal, you’ll need to fulfill two simple
requirements.

1. Understand the reasons for which your account was suspended.

Let’s stop there for a moment:

• In order to be an “unwanted buyer”, stipuations have to be set forth, for the transaction, by the seller. Of course, there were none.
• There is no such thing as an ‘unwanted buyer’ on E-Bay, seriously. Each seller may cancel a bid on an item, at their own discretion. SOOOO, the ‘unwanted buyer’ bullshit is incorrect

Now, let’s get to “Intent to disrupt”

• The item was purchased
• The item was paid for
• Feedback was left

Can anyone ELSE explain to me how this is ‘intentionally disrupting’ the transaction? Am I missing a step? Am I not allowed to leave appropriate feedback? Maybe I’m not allowed to buy the item in question? Maybe I’m not supposed to do anything once the auction has ended? No, see, THAT would be disrupting the auction itself, as this person already did to me!

So, I understand perfectly what the rules are, how to ‘intentionally disrupt’ an auction, or a transaction. Did I? Absolutely NOT.

Now, we’re left with me having to ‘understand why my account was suspended’. Like  a little kid, I’m put on ‘timeout’ to think about what I’ve done “wrong”, but guess what? E-Bay refuses to TELL me what I’ve done wrong, only gives some vague bullshit reference to terms which I clearly have not violated.

SO, in order to get my account back, I have to ‘understand why my account was suspended’. Can it be done? Not at all, because I BROKE NO RULES! Seriously, folks, I broke absolutely ZERO rules. I paid for the item, I won the item, the seller did not CANCEL the sale, I left appropriate feedback for ALL transactions (negative, of course, because the seller was also a NPB).

According to EBay’s definition:

eBay defines this as bidding on or purchasing an item solely to
disrupt the seller’s listing, with no intention of completing the
transaction.

I am NOT breaking any rules whatsoever, here. The transaction WAS completed, 100% BEFORE the suspension was placed. Go figure

Is it just me, or is this place going to hell faster than anything. Can anyone who has SUCCESSFULLY appealed this trash tell me what’s going on here? I’d love alternatives, but damnit, there appear to be no valid ones out there.

Filed under: Bad Suspension