Posted By:
Gilbert PorterThey just suspended my son because of him having bid on my nephew's auctions. The bids were genuine (my son purchases a number of items from my nephew on eBay - particularly when he and my nephew cannot agree on what is a fair price and they decide to leave it to market forces).
But it would take a miracle worker to figure out that they are related, since there is nothing in common - name, city, etc. - to connect the two.
Nice that they are picking on innocent people who play fair, while others continue to commit wholesale fraud with eBay's blessing. For instance, as soon as my son was suspended a seller who was already paid in full decided to use my son's suspension to wrongly inform eBay that he was never paid - we have the receipt for online payment etc, but there is no way to contact the seller (or even look up the transaction and seller contact information) or to dispute Seller's position with eBay because of the suspension. eBay was "nice" enough to email my son that he was accused of being a non-paying buyer, but they do not provide any ability for my son to reply or contest this statement. So eBay's suspension policy becomes a blank check for sellers to rip off customers.
Needless to say, I have dispatched an angry letter to eBay. We shall see . . . .