posted on July 22, 2006 09:58:06 AM
well ... that was at least a few months ago, and i thought i would let you all know how that panned out.
my pre-"ebay" selling account ID (created when ebay was called auctionwatch.com) had over 7,500 feedback rating ... i wrote to bill cob and asked him for "consent" to sell my business, including the ebay feedback, (as mentioned in their terms in the user agreement) ... (i told them i even traded a pez dispenser to Ms. Pam, Pierre's then 'girlfriend') ... they said, as long as i sell my remaining inventory with it (which wasn't much, but was certainly something) ... (they also said if the biz has any real estate, which it did not, i would have to list it under real estate) ... was selling business along w/ its domain name (which pointed directly to the ebay listings), and its ebay account ...
... listed it as a 10-day auction ... on the seventh day, bidding was up to 2,500 or so, with more than 100 "watchers" ....
one certain fella from the left coast had been emailing me wanting the seller account badly ... but he insisted he would want to fly to ohio to pay me personally, and sit w/ his laptop to change over the information ....
on this '7th day', ebay pulled the auction ... (they cited another part of the user agreement saying it would 'artificially' boost the number of feedback to a 'new seller' (or something like that) ... i protested saying "you TOLD me i could do this!!" ... they wrote back, basically saying they 'changed their mind' ....
the left coast guy, had my phone number ... he called and begged me to buy the ebay seller name and domain name ... i told him, "ebay won't let me transfer the ebay ID ... they changed their mind" ..... he said he had friends that did it often, only "off ebay" .... so, he insisted he wanted to buy my seller account "off ebay" and wanted to fly to ohio and give us 3,500 cash .... i said, "i have the feeling ebay is watching my account now, and if you bought this from us, and they see the change of ownership, they might NARU it" .... he still insisted "no, that won't happen" ...... so i said, if you come here and give us 3,500$ and ebay naru's that account, i cannot have you come back crying to me about ....he said, "ok" he was not worried about that happening at all .... ... well, the young dude flew to akron/canton airport, counted out 3,500 cash to my husband, while we sat there w his laptop, and he changed the info over to his 'cousin' for the domain name and the ebay account ... ... (whatEVER) ...
he hopped back on a jet and was gone ... about 6 days later, he called me ... i said 'how you doin'?' .... he said, "fine ... well, actually not so fine" ... he said, "ebay naru'ed my account" .... i (wanted to say, "sux to be you" lol) ... but i said, "sorrrry, you know there's nothing i can do about that, but i warned you i thought they might be spot checking the account" ... he said "i know ... but i have a call into them, begging them to reconsider, etc etc ....
I haven't heard from him since, AND the acct. is still naru ... lol ...
just thought i'd let y'all know, cuz i know some of you said, at the time, that you have some cool ebay ID names up your sleeve that you hoped to "retire on" ...
se la vie ... (sp?)
[ edited by aintrichyet on Jul 22, 2006 06:50 PM ]
posted on July 22, 2006 11:15:41 AM
I would be willing to bet that the account wasn't NARU because of the sale, but what this guy started listing to sell with it. A transfer to another person is as easy as inserting their credit card info in place of yours, and changing the name and address, then giving them your password. Ebay can't possible keep track of the changes manually so it would only make sense this guy was posting illegal items or was suspended from other id's while doing fraudulant deals and now was using your old ID to do the same. Just in his case, the persons who he screwed over in the first place were watching for the same garbage to come up again.
posted on July 22, 2006 06:49:23 PM
Stone, no; i was watching the ebay ID name and nothing had been listed at all yet with it.
Fluffy, yes, i cited to bill cobb's office in my original inquiry, the jay/marie 'auction' ... and you're right, what IF someone had 'bought' their business. i suppose they had more "inventory" to hand over than i did. ...
posted on September 16, 2006 05:43:29 AM
saga continued to its end.
hmmm... here 'tis... four months after the young fella flew from CA to OH, paid big cash for the account, changed the personal info on it, on his laptop, flew home, got naru'd about 7 days or so later.
i had had other selling accounts on ebay, that i used for many years, and this summer, to list different genre of items we have. ... but this week, ebay whacked every one of them "associated with" that May naru'ed acct. including our son's cuz he still lives at this address.
posted on September 16, 2006 07:37:04 AM
ebay is probably pizzed cuz you sold "outside of ebay"...can you start a new account or are you banned permanently?
BTW it's "c'est la vie"
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posted on September 16, 2006 10:03:20 AM
Money is the root of all evil. lol ... and i wanted the money. .... and at the time, i was extremely peeohh'ed that i walked the ebay walk, told them exactly what I wanted to do, and got their permission.
The real chump was the guy that begged to give us that much money.
posted on September 16, 2006 10:24:24 AM
Now you know why any one is so anxious to fly over and fork over that kind of money for your ebay ID!!
The next thing we know,Hezbollah wants to lease our balcony to do some launching !
posted on September 16, 2006 07:46:21 PM
why would anyone with $5 millions dollars want to work like a dog on Ebay?
What is wrong with digging your toes in the sands on Riviera beach ??
[ edited by hwahwa on Sep 17, 2006 05:38 AM ]
posted on September 17, 2006 07:56:48 AM
I don't think Ebay was ever called auctionwatch, but Vendio was, wasn't it?
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posted on September 17, 2006 05:14:08 PM
Vendio was called Auction Watch yes. I still call it that sometimes. Don't know about ebay being auction web though.
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posted on September 17, 2006 06:26:59 PM
My favorite was when he came here asking for help with an auction title...
Seems that he had come upon a large collection of Black Americana Memorbilia -- all children oriented, & he wanted to know what we thought of the term: (rhymes with) Piglets...
posted on September 17, 2006 08:34:30 PM
Those are great! So sorry I missed the AW board in the "good old days" LOL..pretty tame now a days!
GG - do you remember/can you find the thread about the lady whose cat ate the shoes? That was bizarre to say the least! Whatever happened to Jerry12?
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posted on September 18, 2006 07:45:38 AM
These are a hoot! I loved the cow story and the humping frogs was just too much! Thanks for the morning laughs. I have got to get some work done. Can you pull up more of Jerry12's posts? He's hysterical!
posted on September 18, 2006 08:26:17 AM
It is pretty tame these days...of course, I think that started when they fired all the moderators here. They definitely took an active part in the discussions, deleting quite a few postings. It was fun because if you received them via email, you could see what nobody else could later.
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