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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 10:45:02 AM
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I haven't really used eBay in forever, but I wanted to sell my copy of Elden Ring because it wasn't for me. The buyer was pestering me to send next day, which I did. I then get a message that my account was permanently suspended. I think the buyer reported me for something to avoid paying for the game. Anyway, eBay has no ability to contact an actual person to even find out why it was suspended or to resolve the issue. It's bizarre. How is this a thing in 2022?

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IdiotMachine
04/03/22 10:45:54 AM
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This happened exactly as it stated in the OP.

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HylianFox
04/03/22 10:47:06 AM
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Sounds like a one-off to thing to me

Then again, I mostly just buy from eBay

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Nemu
04/03/22 10:52:16 AM
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A similarly bizarre thing happened to me some number of months ago. Never sold anything before. Last time I bought something was 2018. Listed three volumes of a Code Geass manga for sale, listing was taken down, and my account was permanently suspended. They state they literally cannot tell you why you're suspended, which has to be the dumbest thing ever. Only thing I can think is that infrequently used accounts are flagged as high risk, but it makes no sense that they don't just force you to verify yourself or something.
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Conception616
04/03/22 10:52:32 AM
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I stopped selling on eBay years ago because of dishonest buyers, the site supports them 100% and smaller sellers get fucked.

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gatorsPENSbucs
04/03/22 10:58:48 AM
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If you go to your account and click help, go to the bottom and click contact us. Click account. Go from there.

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Hayame Zero
04/03/22 11:05:30 AM
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I don't think I've used eBay since the complete Earthbound set was $60

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Ikzai
04/03/22 11:08:22 AM
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That is some bullcrap. I have some ebay troubles as well. I bought a manga that was advertised as english in the product description to receive it and technically it was the correct item but in German lol. The seller hasn't responded to me yet and its been like a week.

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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 11:16:28 AM
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...
If you go to your account and click help, go to the bottom and click contact us. Click account. Go from there.
I did. It only lets me access a chat and then says live support isn't available.

Nemu posted...
A similarly bizarre thing happened to me some number of months ago. Never sold anything before. Last time I bought something was 2018. Listed three volumes of a Code Geass manga for sale, listing was taken down, and my account was permanently suspended. They state they literally cannot tell you why you're suspended, which has to be the dumbest thing ever. Only thing I can think is that infrequently used accounts are flagged as high risk, but it makes no sense that they don't just force you to verify yourself or something.
Hmm. Maybe that's the issue. I never sold before. I usually sold games through Amazon but there were so many fulfilled by Amazon listings I thought I'd have better luck on eBay.

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Arcanine2009
04/03/22 11:26:29 AM
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I've had my fair share of b.s., and I have mostly been a buyer.

Some dude had the balls to send a fake tracking number and claim he sent my item. I go to their profile and I see 50 other people complain tjue never got their stuff too despite saying that it arrived/was delivered.


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Flauros
04/03/22 11:27:08 AM
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Its a buyers site, thats for true.

One annoying thing i hate as a buyer is snipers. They wait until the last 3 seconds of an auction and outbid you by 50 cents to win an item. They should allow a 5 minute window for the previous higher bidder to put in a counter bid to prevent that shit.

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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 11:30:26 AM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Just stock pic that came with it. Thing is the auction was up for over a day, item sold, and I shipped the next day using their postage purchasing system.

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BeyondWalls
04/03/22 11:30:38 AM
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We need the whole story.

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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 11:31:14 AM
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BeyondWalls posted...
We need the whole story.
That is the whole story.

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Conception616
04/03/22 11:31:54 AM
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Flauros posted...
Its a buyers site, thats for true.

One annoying thing i hate as a buyer is snipers. They wait until the last 3 seconds of an auction and outbid you by 50 cents to win an item. They should allow a 5 minute window for the previous higher bidder to put in a counter bid to prevent that shit.

You know that YOU can employ that same technique, right? This isnt the same thing as scalpers using bots to scoop up all the PS5s.

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BeyondWalls
04/03/22 11:32:28 AM
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AndreLeGeant posted...
Just stock pic that came with it
I dont know what that means. Did you advertise this thing as unopened and new?

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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 11:33:34 AM
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BeyondWalls posted...
I dont know what that means. Did you advertise this thing as unopened and new?
They automatically provided a stock photo of the game. Advertised it as opened like new. Buyer hadn't received it yet so no basis to complain.

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BlazinBlue88
04/03/22 11:38:35 AM
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Had similar issues when trying to sell two items a couple years back.

Tried to sell some airpods. Starting bid was $50. Had a few people PM me trying to haggle like "I'll give you $15 for them right now." Eventually the auction ended at $70 but the winner backed out. Since when can you cancel your bid? Back in the day, eBay had a warning on the bidding page saying once you bid it was final.

Then tried to sell some headphones. After shipping the headphones to the winner, they told me the headphones didn't work and requested a return. I accepted the return and eBay emailed them a return label. They never shipped the item back to me and eBay auto canceled the return.

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FrankGoreHOF
04/03/22 11:40:07 AM
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Flauros posted...
Its a buyers site, thats for true.

One annoying thing i hate as a buyer is snipers. They wait until the last 3 seconds of an auction and outbid you by 50 cents to win an item. They should allow a 5 minute window for the previous higher bidder to put in a counter bid to prevent that shit.
Um, if the auction is at 3 bucks and you bid 10, your bid will actually be 3.50. So anyone who snipes you will autobid higher than them. The only way to fuck this up is on you

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DirkDiggles
04/03/22 11:41:26 AM
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You don't get suspended from ebay because of one person reporting you.......

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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 11:42:33 AM
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DirkDiggles posted...
You don't get suspended from ebay because of one person reported you.......
I don't even know if he did. Never had any other issues with eBay.

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Flauros
04/03/22 11:44:38 AM
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Conception616 posted...
You know that YOU can employ that same technique, right? This isnt the same thing as scalpers using bots to scoop up all the PS5s.

FrankGoreHOF posted...
Um, if the auction is at 3 bucks and you bid 10, your bid will actually be 3.50. So anyone who snipes you will autobid higher than them. The only way to fuck this up is on you
Ive had several instances of people botting my shit on what must have been a fake account to find out what my max bid is, then cancelling that bid to snipe it. Its usually only on higher profile things and it has happened almost a dozen times.

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FrankGoreHOF
04/03/22 11:46:58 AM
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Flauros posted...
Ive had several instances of people botting my shit on what must have been a fake account to find out what my max bid is, then cancelling that bid to snipe it. Its usually only on higher profile things and it has happened almost a dozen times.
If they bid higher than your max bid, it's still on you lol. That's the whole idea. It's the maximum you will pay

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Flauros
04/03/22 11:50:08 AM
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FrankGoreHOF posted...
If they bid higher than your max bid, it's still on you lol. That's the whole idea. It's the maximum you will pay
Im trying to get a deal here. Its hard to when you gotta compete with bots and dummy accounts.

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FrankGoreHOF
04/03/22 11:51:20 AM
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Flauros posted...
Im trying to get a deal here. Its hard to when you gotta compete with bots and dummy accounts.
That's fair then yea it's shitty

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Kloe_Rinz
04/03/22 11:52:24 AM
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Flauros posted...
Im trying to get a deal here. Its hard to when you gotta compete with bots and dummy accounts.
Is it though? Whats the bot going to do you cant via a max bid?
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TyVulpine
04/03/22 11:56:48 AM
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I've tried to sell a few things on there. I'd have bots or scammers contact to say they've "bought" it and demand I send it via DHL even though I hadn't received payment. I just block them.

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Bio1590
04/03/22 12:03:13 PM
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I got like 10 games I want to get rid of that I can't seem to sell locally, guessing Ebay isn't really the way to go then? >_____>

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rexcrk
04/03/22 12:04:25 PM
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Flauros posted...
Its a buyers site, thats for true.

One annoying thing i hate as a buyer is snipers. They wait until the last 3 seconds of an auction and outbid you by 50 cents to win an item. They should allow a 5 minute window for the previous higher bidder to put in a counter bid to prevent that shit.


Errrr thats kind of the point.

If its something you really want, ya gotta wait till the last second and put in whatever youre willing to pay.


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Dingydang166
04/03/22 12:56:42 PM
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Today I learned people still use Ebay
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Jabodie
04/03/22 1:23:39 PM
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Bio1590 posted...
I got like 10 games I want to get rid of that I can't seem to sell locally, guessing Ebay isn't really the way to go then? >_____>
I sell games on ebay pretty often. Haven't had a bad buyer yet. But I also take a lot of photos of the item and only do auctions

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BlockAddition
04/03/22 1:28:42 PM
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I used to sell on ebay as a 'job'

0/10, wouldn't recommend

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Eramir
04/03/22 1:34:19 PM
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Haven't used it in over a decade. Sorry that shit is old asf
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Billyionaire
04/03/22 1:35:45 PM
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One time a guy on ebay sold me a game that didn't work. He gave me a refund and the issue was resolved.

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roos1046 Reborn
04/03/22 3:21:15 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...
We need the whole story.

Exactly.


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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 3:36:18 PM
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roos1046 Reborn posted...
Exactly.
I gave you the whole story

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bloodyarts
04/03/22 4:03:24 PM
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Dingydang166 posted...
Today I learned people still use Ebay
What's another good site/ service to buy and sell used goods? I'm looking for jewelry, wireless earbuds, an external 8tb hdd and a ryzen 3700x...
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Trumpo
04/03/22 4:18:44 PM
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Ebay is still good for things like used OEM car parts like mirrors, taillight and headlight assemblies.
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Nemu
04/03/22 8:33:21 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Sounds like he used a photo provided by eBay, which is different than that lady talking about taking them from off-site.
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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 8:37:29 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Then why did eBay provide the stock image?

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RchHomieQuanChi
04/03/22 8:42:51 PM
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IdiotMachine posted...
This happened exactly as it stated in the OP.

Nah, eBay is notoriously bad when it comes to protections for sellers

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AndreLeGeant
04/03/22 8:48:07 PM
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I think as someone said it was automatic because I've only used my account to buy things a few times over multiple years.

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Solid Snake07
04/03/22 8:50:46 PM
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Flauros posted...
Its a buyers site, thats for true.

One annoying thing i hate as a buyer is snipers. They wait until the last 3 seconds of an auction and outbid you by 50 cents to win an item. They should allow a 5 minute window for the previous higher bidder to put in a counter bid to prevent that shit.


just bid the most youre willing to pay for it

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Bio1590
04/03/22 10:04:35 PM
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Solid Snake07 posted...


just bid the most youre willing to pay for it

But then it just becomes a game of pennies, especially these days.

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Gwynevere
04/04/22 1:34:48 AM
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Flauros posted...
Its a buyers site, thats for true.

One annoying thing i hate as a buyer is snipers. They wait until the last 3 seconds of an auction and outbid you by 50 cents to win an item. They should allow a 5 minute window for the previous higher bidder to put in a counter bid to prevent that shit.
Totally agreed

I tried to buy synthesizers on 2 different occasions, was the only bidder for like 4 days then got outbid like 8 times in the last 10 seconds. Haven't even fucked with eBay since, it's not worth it

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Medussa
04/04/22 1:51:59 AM
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snipers are ebay'ing correctly. they aren't giving anyone any time to talk themselves into paying more than they would have. themselves included.

nibble bidders are the worst.

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TyVulpine
04/04/22 7:54:56 AM
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Medussa posted...


nibble bidders are the worst.
Why pay more than you have to?

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WingsOfGood
04/04/22 8:04:49 AM
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Weird cause I bought an item and then the seller wouldn't send to me and relisted it at a higher price.
I reported them and the listing was still up for awhile.
Took like a month to get my refund.

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