WOW! Ebay! Be prepared to be Suspended for breathing!

[danmckee]

I sign on this morning and low and behold my buying rights have been suspended for 3 days! After a 20 minute phone call to ebay and a supervisor intervening, I was finally reinstated.

I bought a $12 item last night, the seller invoices me then 10 minutes later sends an email that he will not ship until he gets paid.

I do not respond to pressure very well so I responded with and I quote:

"Yea no Crap, that is how it works with every ebay transaction"

Seller doesn't like my vulgar language and we go back and forth with 4 more emails and NO profanity on either side.

He reports me for being "unprofessional" Ebay suspends me.

WOW!!!!!!

They want to see unprofessional??????

I told them if they were going to suspend me, I was going to earn it!!!

Amazing!

[danmckee]

Looks like reasons for member to member contact hasn't changed:

What are the guidelines?
- Spam (email)
- Threats
- Profanity and hate speech
- Feedback comments containing inappropriate content


Not sure where "unprofessional" fits in here, I bet he has a relative working for ebay!



Also found this:

Next, tell us what happened

Buyer made unreasonable demands
Demanded a change to the shipping method or locationDemanded a change to the payment method or timingDemanded a partial refund or discountDemanded additional items or servicesRequested that the transaction be completed off of eBayBuyer left inappropriate feedback
Left abusive feedbackMalicious feedback left by a suspected competitorOtherBuyer abused a buyer protection program
Misused the program to claim an item was not as describedMisused the program to claim an item was not receivedBuyer misused returns
Did not return original itemReturned a damaged or used itemDid not follow other terms of your return policyOther problems
Buyer used foul or offensive languageRequested false information on customs formsYour problem isn't listed hereProviding additional comments is optional

[BeanTown]

Corporate America at its finest! Makes you just want to go out and buy stock in Ebay!! Not!

[Forgebuster]

Danmckee when you had a supervisor on the phone you should have asked why they are allowing a fake Mantle lithograph with the J. Dimaggio (Banned Cert Co by Ebay itself!) to be listed on their site? Double standards everywhere! I have reported this item 4 times!

[Brian Van Horn]

Dan,

Looks like you got your $12 bucks worth.

[Taxman]

Dan you should have tried the Joey trick on him and threatened negative feedback if he did not lower the price.