Yeah, I can vouch for the OP's story. A friend of mine, who had dealt on eBay for years and had 600+ positives with zero negatives was selling without incident. A few months ago, he lost his job and bought a few collections with solid value that he was able to split up and make some money off of.
He had one guy buy two vintage lots of cards which he very generously said weren't in great shape, took pictures, etc., and the buyer left him a negative saying they weren't in good condition. In addition, he had one buyer leave him a neutral for not shipping soon enough, and had two cancel orders. This all happened in the course of a few months and it was enough for eBay to prevent him from selling. I still find it hard to believe they would ban someone with like a 99.9 positive rating for essentially one bad buyer and one 'tough' buyer.
As a result, he was then stuck with a few thousand dollars of cards he had planned to sell with no good outlet in which to do it.
eBay has become buyer-centered for one simple reason - they (understandably) don't want buyers afraid to purchase items from them. It's the same reason you see them (eBay) doing things like extending the amount of time buyers can file Paypal complaints for the holidays, etc. I get all that, but they also seem to punish perfectly good sellers for unreasonable buyers.
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