hmm interesting. i would guess men.

Just wanted to share some helpful info. I just lost my top rated seller status on one of my accounts which means I lose my 20% discount in seller fees which some months can wind up being a discount of $1500. basically i occasionally get buyers who will pay and then say they made a mistake and ask to cancel or refund. i normally would cancel in order to get my fvf back. even though its the buyer who bought and didn't want i would cancel. well apparently now you can't have more than 2% of your acutions cancelled or request fvf fees back. i was just over 2% so lost my status. hurts me in search rankins and lose some discounts on fees and i thin maybe even shipping. ive basically decided that im gonna have to take a loss and eat some fees because the value by bieng a top rated seller outweights a few bucks lost on an item here and there. basically thats 2 transactions out of 100 that can be cancelled. im gonna save those for high dollar items and not the small stuff. just wanted to give everyone a heads up sometimes its better to lose a few bucks than lose your power seller status.

I know its a pain to get your hopes up drive far and have an item be gone so I'll normally give someone a window but if they aren't there within the second of the time we agreed on its going to the next guy. If I have a lot of demand I'll tell people I got like 3 people comming at 3, I'm not trying to turn this into a bidding war but first person who arrives with the cash is taking it so hurry up.

I've found some boxes of watch parts, bands, faces, etc including some rolex but never a working rolex. Parts can fetch a decent buck if they are from vintage watches though.

Before the shows came on as we all talk about the goold old days I would say it was like 40+ males were like 90% of buyers, however now you se a much broader mix. I still think its say 35+ more males than females but you get everything. I see a lot of women at auctions these days. I occasionally run into younger guys like myself as well.

It's sad that ebay has become what it has become but I've learned basically to treat every listing like I"m selling it to a retarded 6 year old and go into great detail about any little problem or miscommunication there could possibly be because there are some bad buyers like this may be who will specifically target cheap items with fairly expensive in relationto the product shipping knowing if they complain it's oftentimes more costly to take the item back. You also have the not sketchy but just stupid people who don't read or who will make up issues just because they are picky.

On one of my accounts I'm allowed to charge up to a 20% restocking fee which is nice as that will typically cover shipping and any fees out of my pocket, in most scenarios if I get a return I actually profit.

I recently however had a crappy one. I was selling something used. Description was very detailed as were photos however ebay sided with buyer because I didn't have the word used in the title? THey give you so little space and your search ranking is based almost entirely on title and you want me to waste that valuable title space to put used when I could more accurately describe things in the desciption

I was more curious about people legitimately getting accounts back vs workarounds but curious to hear about anything. I have an account in good standing and no ebay problems but was asked about this a while back and looked around on the net for solutions for a colleague and seems it's almost impossible to get an account back unless there's some situation like your account was hacked and used by someone else and you can somehow prove it and even then imagine a huge headache.

As to starting new accounts, yeah anyone can start a new account and be setup within a matter of minutes, however new accounts are prety closely moniotored and if nothing else as soon as you want to sell more than a handful of items they will review your account to up either your limite or number of items and tehy will figure it out.

This isn't the same world we were living in even 5 years ago, the amount of technology and algorithms and stuff that sites have these days is crazy. They check IP addresses, wording of listings, types of items, addresses. The more you play around with using friends addresses and everything else basically the more addresses and ip addresses you blow up for others ie if those people were to try to use ebay in the future htey will have headaches. Can probably still get accounts or explain situation but I would guess ebay may blcok all addresses and stuff associated with your and your account as well.

A while back I had an offer to buy one of my ebay accounts for quite a bit of money but wouldn't do it because A. its against policy but even if I decided to ignore that, that account is forever associated with me so if the buyer of the account violates paypal or ebay they will shut down my account even though I had nothing to do with it and no explaining its not me as your not supposed to be selling accounts in the first place.

what new rules are we talking about?