mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
The email you got from Ebay likely told you what you needed to do. What did they tell you?
@libbywebst wrote:When that has happened to me before (selling Chanel perfumes), I just relisted. Figured it was a competitor reporting me.
That is dangerous advice. You may have gotten lucky and slipped through the cracks, but most times when a seller does the, as it specifically tells you NOT to do this in the email, Ebay catches you again, pulls the listing and dings your account. Do it a third time and you will likely get a sort vaca from selling. Do it a fourth time and it could end up being a permanent vaca.
A single report rarely gets an account removed. And if the report comes from a competitor, Ebay does track that and would not likely remove the listing.
@libbywebst wrote:Well then, I guess it's a roll of the dice. Happened to me maybe 5 times in my ten years here. Just relisted and the items sold no problemo. Comment not framed as "advice," per se, more anecdotal. OP obviously free to make his/her own risk assessment based on everyone's opinions, including yours.
If you want to take the risk, that is your right to do it. But please don't come here and offer that as advice to any seller with listings being removed by Ebay. You could cause a seller REAL financial harm. If it works for you fine, you have the right to risk whatever you see fit on your own account. But don't mislead others into potentially damaging their accounts.
BTW, it typically isn't a roll of the dice. You are in a real minority here if you got an email from Ebay telling you that they were removing a listing or listing for cause. Now there are times that Ebay does allow the seller to fix the offending feature of the listing that cause the issue. Like a picture or a brand name in the title that didn't belong there. But if you simply relist without making the changes, that is potentially harmful.
