Also make sure he words his listings differently.

I was banned .. 99.8% positive for shipping late during HURRICANE SANDY .. ya know when we didn't have power for 3 weeks.. they immediately banned me and removed 100+ listings.

I set up a new account, new pay pal ..etc. and was given the initial $5k authority.  I listed 3 things and it said that my wording in descriptions was similar to a banned account and that they would temporarily suspend me while they investigate.  3 hours later that account was locked and all my new listings were removed.

I loathe ebay and pay pal.

Yeah there's some people who clearly should be banned people who sell things and scam people or even people who sell and wait weeks to ship but there's plenty of stories of people with very well established accounts with like 2000 plus feedback who get accounts shutdown over a single 1 star dsr rating that could have been an accident or something. Many small sellers were saying ebay was trying to purge small sellers.

From what I've heard its almost impossible to get an account back once banned and once banned your banned from life so there's really no downside to trying to get around ebay and trick them into letting you sell. I'd first start by calling up and trying to appeal or get an account review but chances are you'll just be read a scriptedt message and it's over. I'd try that once if you have no luck you can try to trick them

A buddy of mine was recently asking me this question. I guess a few years back he was kinda half assing his ebay sales didn't really care about eBay, had some stuff listed went on vacation shipped late. He never realized it but his ebay privileges were suspended due to too many low DSR or something along those lines. He now is into auctions and has a use for ebay and realized he couldn't sell which sucks for him. He called up no luck. I'd always heard once you screw up on ebay and get banned there's no getting it back and any future accounts you setup will be quickly discovered. Just curious if anyone has run into this and managed to get it reversed.

Throug doing some research online it seems its basically impossible. I was surprised to see some great sellers with like 1500 feedback got suspended for basically no negative feedback just DSR scores below what ebay wants. Just curious if anyone else has any experience with this.

It used to be that you could give negative feedback to buyers. It was eliminated because sellers would give negative feedback to a buyer in retaliation for the buyer leaving negative feedback, even if the buyer did nothing wrong and the seller did. It was felt that buyers would start being more honest in rating bad sellers if they could no longer be extorted into giving only good feedback.

IMO, a better way is to require the seller to give feedback before the buyer can. This way the buyer could still received and give negative feedback without it being used as extortion. I also feel that if feedback is given but not received within 30 days that the feedback given should be able to be withdrawn. I'm am good about giving feedback as soon as someone buys, or when I buy, after I've received the item and all was good. More often than not the other party never leaves feedback, yet they have the benefit of the feedback I left for them.

good idea, in the past it was annoying buyers and sellers would get into this you leave feedback first no you leave feedback first and it was just dumb. thats actually a pretty good way of doing things. buyer feedback is prety pointless though, we as sellers dont really get to screen people before they buy so whats the point of it really. sure you can set things like people cant buy if they have 3 unpaid item strikes in a month but really no way to block someone just b/c they ave a neg

I gave up on low priced items, even at cheap prices too hard to compete with teh chinese sellers and drop shippers, also I find the people who spend $10 are my biggest headaches, the peopel who drop a few hundred are no problem ever not sure why that is. Figure out what the most economical shipping is as with cheap items shipping costs alot to the customer in relation to the product and laso wastes your profits as well. Probably first class mail as long as its under 13 ounces will be cheapest

Yeah 150k is a lot of money but you can't say that's alot of money who would buy a business for that, if that were the case no busiensses would ever be sold as 150k is actually quite low for a business, although in this case it's not like you get property, inventory, etc your basically getting his domain name, customers and best practices and policies so that is sorta a lot to pay for something non tangible. Another thing to consider, not sure if this guy has a hands off approac all online or if he has a rapport withh customers but with businesses where the owner has a relationship with customers how many of those customers will stay around when the owner is no longer there and its a new owner?

Internet businesses are hard to value. With businesses they typically say 5 years profits but internet biz tends to be kinda fads so you can't relaly plan on making the same consistant income for 5 years, also since the internet is contsantly changing. My business makes 15k-20k a month but nobody would ever give me 5 years profits for it. I had an offer last year for 200k and the guy said he was overpaying. I tink i'd be lucky to get 50k for my biz however I would never sell it for that as 3 months I can make that.

yeah i think it hurts dealers overall. alot of times i purposely do only individuals and not dealers as dealers is like hundreds of the same ad in every category from cars to furniture

ghosting is more a term in dating disapearing on someone no explaination. are you just talking about flaky cl buyers or are you talking about posts not showing up?

one thing I notice is when i was doing storage auctions for my ebay stuff i was really focused on listing fees however now when i have a store i could care less about listing fees if i used to have to pay them or do now.

the only reason to really be focused on listing fees is because your items aren't selling and your worried about paying a fee to list, not having it sell and repeating that cycle several times before it sells. yeah maybe it eventually sells but how much time has it taken to sell that its taking up space in your ouse and that your sitting on it, having to relist it, etc.

if  your running into that problem you may be better off not listing items you dont think are going to sell as that drives down your % of items selling vs sitting and that hhurt you in search overall.

i catch myself doing this with my persona non business ebay account. i got stuf sitting around the house i dont wnna donate it or toss it as i see value in everyting and i continue listing it knowing its never going to sell or if it does for nearly nothingand im packing and shipping crap for almost no profit.

if an item doesn't sell after a time or two id donate it and take te write off