Description: The vast majority of sellers and PowerSellers on eBay are good people who comply with eBay’s policies in the overall interest of the marketplace. In global policy management, we have been working hard to better educate sellers who may unintentionally violate the rules and we have recently put new consequences in place that effectively penalize those few sellers who intentionally violate the rules.
In 2006, we have added some additional consequences for policy violations, because we know that only this can change the behavior of some of our repeat violators. These include:
Restricting repeat policy violators’ ability to sell for a period of time – Depending on how often a seller has violated our policies in a 90-day period, they may be required to complete a 15-minute tutorial or they could be restricted from listing new items for up to 3 days.
Retaining eBay fees when cancelling a repeat violator’s listings for List Practices violations – If a seller repeatedly violates policies in a 90-day period despite previously having taken a tutorial on those policies, we’re going to keep their listing and feature fees on subsequent listing cancellations for policy violations. We feel strongly that this is a level-playing field issue and that we need to create a financial penalty for these sellers who cannot be rehabilitated through education alone.
Our workshop will answer questions members might have about these new consequences for policy violation.
posted on March 3, 2006 07:03:08 AM new
I suspect I have long since been classed as a repeat offender even though all three of my suspensions were erroneous.
Well, okay, "erroneous" is the polite way to put it. The accurate way would be to say my three suspensions were fraud and harassment facilitated and encouraged by eBay.
If a seller repeatedly violates policies in a 90-day period despite previously having taken a tutorial on those policies, we’re going to keep their listing and feature fees on subsequent listing cancellations for policy violations.
On my January 3 suspension, eBay kept all fees for my cancelled auctions even though I had no benefit of having taken a tutorial previously. On pressing the matter, they grudgingly gave a $25 courtesy credit.
posted on March 3, 2006 09:49:19 AM new
This is ebay's nice way to say that they are no longer going to issue a refund for cancelled auctions of any kind. You watch, it will happen. They will use the excuse that it is too difficult to determine which are accidental and which are not.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on March 3, 2006 03:56:41 PM new
I seem to remember reading somewhere a while back that the word ebay means, TO RIP OFF, OR
TO DEFRAUD. cant remember where that was now.
posted on March 7, 2006 08:36:52 AM new eBay sellers can grip until the “cows come home,” but with out some way to unionize sellers, all that is ever accomplished, is a few sellers leave, or a few sellers boycott eBay for a short time.
~"It does not matter what I think, it does not matter what you think. The only thing which matters is: What is the TRUTH!"~
[ edited by jwpc on Mar 7, 2006 08:38 AM ]
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
eBay sellers can grip until the “cows come home,” but with out some way to unionize sellers, all that is ever accomplished, is a few sellers leave, or a few sellers boycott eBay for a short time.