Mam

        Sorry about that error the 4.0  should be 4.9

 The cell phone sale you allude to was NOT mine you must have thought I was someone else.

DSRs came in %   whatever that means ? 

The other 3 DSRs were all below 1% 

I still say that this record of mine does not deserve suspension which seems like its forever.  It is much better than most current sellers.

In any event ebay does not appear to forgive a small seller for the 1 or 2 mistakes in 12 years.  I know better know what to do but I cannot get back to selling.  Again but I am good enough to buy???

 I hope these corrections will change your view of my situation.

Mam

         Yes it is a secret # for just how many strikes are needed for buyer suspensions.

         I would say that number of buyers Permanently suspended is far far less than the sellers

        How long does it take for sellers to later get their account back??  Suspended buyers I think would be reinstated in much less time than sellers.

        All this is what I refer to as a double standard.

       But as you have stated  Ebay is unfair to sellers

I have been selling on ebay for 12 years. Never had a SNAD Only 3 Negatives.   Suspended indefinitely 14 months ago.  But I am allowed to BUY!

Ratings were  4.0  4,9  5.0  4.8    

DSR in S/H charges were 2.4%  (never any gouging)

This was called  below or poor selling standard ???

My record surely is far better than most all current sellers.

I was told that it was a "Unified Business Decision" what ever that means.

I get no more replies from them. 

Treated like a criminal for one or two mistakes after all that time. 

Yes I am not a BIG seller.  Maybe that is the entire problem.  

The thing about the batteries was not instigated by Homeland Security.  I read an article on ecommercebytes the other day about it and it has nothing to do with security but with safety.

It seems that under certian conditions the batteries can overheat and cause a fire on board aircraft.  The article cited two recent incidents.  One was in Dubai where the aircraft caught fire and was able to return to the airfield.

The other incident the aircraft and it's crew were lost when the aircraft crashed due to the fire on board.  It was reported that there were over 18000 batteries on board and that once one overheats it can cause a chain reaction that sets them all off.

Interesting thing is that some countries are abiding by the international standard while others are not.  Another interesting thing is that domestic flights are not affected by the rule.

You can still ship these items internationally if you use a private carrier such as Fedex or UPS.

Apparently there are packaging and handling rules being worked out so this current ban is temporary for a little less than a year in order to give the decision makers time to create and  implement whatever standards they need in order to make transporting these batteries safer.

It was also mentioned in the article that most equipment manufacturers ship their product with the battery minimally charged in order to reduce the chances the battery might overheat.

jlh1973mu

Yes, this is a new rule that just went into effect in the last couple of days.

I'm not sure I understand your concerns.  You said the buyer agreed to the cancellation, but now you are worried about them reporting you.  Reporting you for what and to whom?  Report you for NOT shipping something that is illegal to ship?!?!?!  No doubt this new rule was driven by Homeland Security.  I just don't understand your concern, sorry.  Report you for what and to whom?  And what is it that you want Ebay to intervene in? 

saldixie wrote:

Yes Mam 

               You have answered my point about the double standard that existe with ebay.  I am saying in effect that NO buyers have been known to be suspended indefinitely.

               Does anyone know of any sellers being reinstated?

 

I didn't say that.  Quite the opposite.  I do have personal knowledge of many buyers being permanently banded from Ebay.  Certainly not as many as there should have been, but some nonetheless.  Now what I said was we don't have the stats that you requested.  But you knew that before you asked.  So I'm not sure what you are really fishing for.

As to seller, the answer is yes.  I've known of sellers getting into trouble for one reason or another.  Get suspended and at some later date get their account rights back.

So why not just be straight and to the point.  What is it that you really want to know?  Maybe we can help.  Are you trying to say Ebay is unfair to sellers?  The answer would be yes, and you would be preaching to the choir here.  Or did you feel that we didn't know that or that it was some kind of secret that we weren't let in on. 

Thank you for the information.

I am new to all this (first three items listed on ebay) and my first buyer after winning the item (yesterday) sends me an email claiming she didnt read the charge for shipping information and wanted a big "discount" as she says in her email everybody discounts for the buyrer after a sale.  BTY: I checked her post name on eBay and she has a buyer rating at eBay of over 200+ and she doesn'r sell anything so I know she knows to read everything.

 She is claiming she can "withdraw" her bid after winning and says she is "doing that" in todays email. Now I have to wait 4 days and then file this against her for non payment. You bet I am filing the UID. I think it is lousy of her to try to extort a big discount and then refuse to pay for the item when I didn't want to discount it. And I loose many days waiting to get this resolved and then relist the item. 

Okay, still not successful trying to make a one time payment on my account, so I called Ebay.

CS rep spoke excellent English, and appeared very knowedgeable.  Apparently you can only make so many "one time payments" in a certain period of time, and once you exceed this you will get the error message I got.  She did say she wasn't sure how often it "resets" and suggested I try again later or tomorrow, etc.  It counts SUCCESSFUL payments, not ATTEMPTS, so if I keep getting the message it will not up the limit.

I'm sure this probably won't be of interest to most of you, but I just have a habit of paying regularly whenever I notice a balance on the account.  I hate the idea of waiting til the end of the month and then finding out I have a larger balance than what I have in Paypal to pay with because I withdrew the money or spent it elsewhere.

Learn something new every day!

One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors. PLATO

I'm about ready to give up....Ebay is getting more and more ridiculous every day.

I just went to make a one time payment on one of my seller accounts (which I do quite a bit, this isn't the first time I've used the option) and when I clicked on "Pay" I got this error message:

Excessive Payment Amount
This amount exceeds the payment limits on the account.

WTH?????? How can one exceed a PAYMENT on an account?  Me thinks they are having a Kool-Aid party over there.....or maybe someone harvested their latest marywanna crop!  Geesh!

Just saw that P3 is on a mission.....sorry I missed saying good bye.  Will look forward to hearing all about it when he returns in June!

One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors. PLATO

OP

     I have not read all of the posts here so I may have missed the answer to my question which is " How many buyers have been suspended indefinitely"?  I have heard that they may be sanctioned or disiplined for 30 days at most  if any.  The number of strikes needed for any action is unknown. This is the ebay well employed double standard: buyers stay, small sellers get booted.

I've been helping someone off this thread that had originally came here with a problem.  I learned something that I wanted to make sure I shared with everyone in regards to the Ebay claims process.

If you have a member come and buy something from you, pay, you ship, they receive, then they list the item for sale on Ebay, they lose the right to file a claim on Ebay.  If they were able to open a claim, you just need to add comments to the claim that they posted a listing for the item or items they purchased from you, give them the listing number or numbers.  Then just to make sure  they handle it properly, call them and get the claim closed in your favor.

Now there is an exception to this.  If you agree to allow the buyer to return the item, then they regain the right to file a claim if they choose.  So I'd say we all need to know this and check to see if they listed the items for sale before agreeing to a return.  Doesn't matter if they closed the listing early.  If they list it they have no right to file a claim.

Good information to know.

WOW P3 you brought tears to my eyes.  What a WONDERFUL and joyous thing to be a part of.  Will your church allow us to have a link to the blog just in case you get to post stuff.  You can certainly send it to my private email if you don't want to post it here, but I sure would love to watch the progress.

And you are right, you surprised me.  However I've always known you are a kind and generous person, even though we pick on each other pretty good.  But I've felt I've always known the truth about you.  I'm pretty good about reading between the lines.

As for having postings removed for being off topic.  That isn't what that new rule is about at all.  If you look at it, it is for off topic threads.  Those threads for just chatting or social stuff.  That pink announcement placed on the main paid specifically said OT threads.

Mam, Delta, Dead, Bats, and my other buddies here-

I'm not sure whether this post will get caught up in Ebay's new "must be relevant" ethos, but I just wanted to let you know I'm going to be out of touch for the next few weeks.

My church has been raising money to build wells in Ethiopia.  It seems that's one of the biggest ways to improve the lives of people in the remote vilages there.  This is especially true for the women and girls, most of whom never had time to go to school before, because it's been their job to walk five to ten miles on dirt paths every day to fill the family's water cans (filled weight about 60 pounds) at some crap-filled water hole they share with the local wildlife (not all of it friendly.)

It turns out that just a couple thousand dollars will pay to drill a well for a village, giving them access to not only the first close and convenient water they've ever known, but also the first clean water.  (One old woman, who'd spent her whole life lugging water cans back and forth, asked where all this new water was coming from.  When she found out that it had been there just a few hundred feet under their feet her whole life, she supposedly launched into a tirade of Ethiopian swearing that would have made even me blush.)

We had hoped to raise enough money for a single well, but ended up with enough for five!  What's more, one of the wells turned out to be so productive that it's been piped to several other villages.

I was never the Peace Corps, "We Are the World" type (I know, big shock) but when you can improve so many peoples' lives, by so much, for so little... well, you know I can't turn down a bargain like that.

The church was looking for a few people to go dedicate a couple of new wells, oversee the final construction on some others, and teach the locals how to use them (with the water they've been using, there never was a reason to keep their cows and pigs out of the water; what's one more animal?)  I was one of the volunteers they chose.

So now that I've packed my stuff, got my visa, and received the vaccinations for typhoid, meningitis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, malaria, yellow fever, tetanus, polio, and bad breath, I'm on my way for two weeks of fun in the sun in north Africa (unless the rainy season hasn't quite ended yet.)

I'm not sure that some places we're headed will even have furniture, much less internet, but the foundation set up some blog space for when we occasionally touch base in Addis Ababa.  You can follow along (and/or make a donation?) at WaterToThrive.org.

Aloha! (or whatever.)  See you in June.

-Larry

BOHCAGED - Bend over, here comes another great Ebay deal!