After 14 years eBay closed the account

Based on our review, we've taken the following actions on your account:

- Indefinitely removed your ability to sell. You can't use other accounts or register new accounts to sell on eBay. If you do, your accounts could be limited, restricted, or suspended.
- Removed any of your listings. A list of any removed items will be listed further down in this email.
- We have credited all associated fees except for the final value fee for your listing(s).

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No call, no consultation or whatsoever from ebay. Granted, I have been pushing it with some brand names that should not be sold and have received two or three warning during the past two years.

However, because of their complete lack of communication I have no interest in trying to solve the issue with them directly. They can eat their shitty rules. I would most likely anyway be transfered from one support student to another for days and weeks ahead.

Nor do I want to drop my business as I have optimized the flow of activity in all these years that was bringing in many thousands of dollars each month with 30 to max 120 minutes daily maintenance.

So I want to move forward with solving this problem, the proper way, black hat way. I would however like to ask for advice in how to do this most effectively. I have the database of listings saved in turbolister format. All the pictures are inside this turbolister database as well. There are thousands of listings.

If I buy an aged ebay account, what do I need to watch out for? Would there be any footprints in the database if I upload the whole thing to a new ebay account? Should I be concerned that they will immediately link the database and suspend the new account as well? If yes, how would you easily erase these footprints?

Given the amplitude of the ban it seems I should be careful with having a separate IP for the ebay activity, a new ebay account and a new paypal account. These accounts should probably be fully verified as I will hit most of the limits in a few days most likely. Ideally, if the ebay account will not get banned again, I plan to use the account for years to come.

Another thing to notice is that the whole selling activity is on ebay Europe, so it is not necessary to have an US ebay + paypal account. In fact would having US accounts actually prove as a hindrance in this case?

Anything else I should be careful about?

Sorry for the long rant, but I am hoping for a few tips from fellow blachatters.

TheWicker said:

I have been pushing it with some brand names that should not be sold and have received two or three warning during the past two years.

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So let me get this straight. They warned you that you were going to be shut down if you kept doing it, and you kept doing it, and it's their fault that they acted on their warning.

TheWicker said:

I have the database of listings saved in turbolister format. All the pictures are inside this turbolister database as well. There are thousands of listings.

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You can kiss all that work goodbye because eBay can link you for reusing listing wording and pics. You need to start all over with everything new to be safe.

You may be doing something against ebay rules.

may be u broke some ebay rules it happens mate

Long time since I was here... seems BHW really is no longer even 1/10th of what it used to be...

if they warned you in the first place, dont expect them to just move on and forget about your account, if you go against their rules they will shutdown your account for sure, just try to work things out with them and maybe open a new account but using a new IP adress and a virtual machine

there are a lot of possible solutions....
1. make your own stealth accounts
2. buy new ones
3. buy aged ones
but be advised just because you buy a aged one it will not prevent risk from closure if you sell vero items