ebay suspended my account! Rated F for F***ing! language!

OK this is a little rant to blow off some steam.

Ebay suspended my my 7 year old 72 %100 feedback account. I only had one neutral feedback. I should tell you this is my one and only ebay account.

Here is what happened. I got an email saying my account was suspended. Naturally I thought this was a phishing scam. I looked at the email header information and it looked real even down to the links. So I thought what the heck I will log into my account because I haven't logged in to it for a while and I needed to update my favorite searches anyway. So I go there by typing in the URL instead of following the link in the email just to be safe. When I logged in sure enough my account was suspended. :huh: :angry:

They said I was suspended because my account was associated to another account and listed it on the screen. I knew I could not be associated to any accounts because I only have the one. This account had nothing but bad feedback and hasn't been active since 2005. So I emailed them to explain how I am linked to this account. They replied back with more accounts I was associated with. Then it hit me. The other accounts gave it away on how I was "associated". All the accounts listed were my older brothers account. He sucks at ebay! Nothing but negative feedback for unpaid items on all the accounts. I knew he bought some stuff and had it sent to the same address I'm at because where he lives packages can get stolen or loose dogs will tear them up. So my brother has my address for his account plus he is a dead beat bidder. This is my only association with those accounts. Well that and he is my older brother.

So I sent them a letter back stating that this was my older brother and I had no control on what he does on ebay. I also asked them to reactivate my account since I'm a different person and I have a perfect long record with them. They replied back saying "I'm pleased to tell you that your accounts had been reinstated. You now have full access to eBay.". The only problem was that they reinstated my brothers dead beat accounts! :angry: So I sent them an email back saying hold the f**k up! Those are not my accounts! My account is XXXXXXX and the ones you reinstated are my brothers accounts! Please reinstate my account XXXXXXX.

The next email I received stated "The email address that you wrote to us from is different from the email
address that we have on file for this account.", "If you can't contact us from the email address registered to this account, please send us an email with the following information:". So I tell them that I cant email from the address I have on file because its a forward only email I use with my domain so I can control spam. I kindly sent them the requested information.

Next email I receive said "I understand your concern. However, our records don't show a suspended
or blocked eBay account on file for the email address that you wrote from.". This got me so f**king pissed because I just sent them the information they requested! :angry: So at this point I know I'm going to get the run around and I will never get my account back so I send them another email back saying...

"No s**t you did not find an account from the address I replied from! I explained to you that the email address I use for ebay is a forward only address! I CANT REPLY DIRECTLY FROM THAT ADDRESS! The address I'm reply to you from is where all my mail gets sent to! You even asked for my information to verify the account! I sent you the correct information for the account XXXXXXX! You know what? Just f**k THIS! I've had it! You go and suspend my perfect account because of what my brother did with those other accounts. I paid for every item I bought and shipped every item I sold! I don't need this s**t! I'll take my business else where! I will be posting my experience with this run around bullshit on the web. Delete all the f**king accounts you like!"

With that I got a survey to fill out on my experience with support. You can bet you nice person I marked everything as low as I could!

A short time later I got another email saying "I understand you feel we have been unfair in upholding this suspension, and we take your complaint very seriously. I have reviewed your situation again, and it has been decided that this account will remain closed.". Review my situation again? Remain closed? f**k! Whats there to review? Two different people! Two different accounts! Well my brother had quite a few but I only had one! And f**k it was my brother that f**ked up not me! Why should I get suspended for my brothers f**kups? My only association with my brother is well HE IS MY f**kING BROTHER! Thats it! So my reply was...

"Yeah no s**t its unfair! Those accounts were my brothers f**kING accounts not mine! I had a perfect record! I don't control what my idiot older brother does! Like I said before this is f**kING BULLSHIT! Go f**k yourself ebay!

With that I disabled my ebay email address on my domain. I'm still wanting to delete my paypal account but haven't decided if I should keep it as there is nothing else like it out there that I know of.

Ebay I know does not care for the users that don't bring them in much money. I probably bought about 100 things and sold less than 50 things but I liked them because it was easy to get rid of crap I did not want anymore plus you can get hard to find items. I think what they did to me was bullshit. They should have just suspended my brother and not made me an "associate".

Now I'm going to have to find a way to buy hard to find items without ebay finding out who I am.

The End!




ebay sucks! :angry:

 

I don't know what to do about my brother. I'm so pissed I haven't told him yet.

I wont be writing a letter to ebay because if I do it will have so many F bombs it would fill a ream of paper. And thats double sided prints!

I'm guessing I'm associated because my brother used my address to ship items to me. I was OK with that part because my brother lives out in the boonies where you can get your package stolen or have it destroyed by the red neck neighbors loose dogs. It still should not matter. Its two different people. I'm sure there is lots of people that share the same address for different accounts. Maybe they all live in the same house? If two people have the same address the one person should not be held responsible for the others doings.

Hobbit I know all about the stories of ebay and paypal. I'm one of those people that never had a problem with either until now. In fact I was very happy with ebay and paypal. I do agree that ebay has gone WAY down hill since I first signed up but it still was a good site even today to just get rid of crap I could not get rid of in a yard sale. Yes ebay charges out the nice person for listing fees but I gladly paid them even when I may have only made a few dollars off a big sale.

Getting rid of paypal will be the hardest for me. I love it because of the ease of use and quick money transfers. I have the business or money market thing or what ever you call it. I earn interest when I leave money in paypal but they also charge a transaction fee when receiving money. I don't mind it.

I still want my ebay account because I still find hard to find items only on ebay.

 

Re: ebay suspended my account! Rated F for F***ing! language!

Yeah.

I tried to call them but they just blew me off because I'm not a power seller. I could not even get a manager. I said F*** OFF to ebay and haven't been back since. I have stopped using paypal also unless there is no way around it.