I've dealt with a very good customer for over 30 years. First through flea markets and antique malls and now eBay. We grew up in the same town and both collect local history and advertising items. Even though he now lives 100 miles away he still buy's a lot of hometown items. He's a buyer who's not afraid to pay good money for items and he's bought dozens of my eBay items over the year's.
I just got an message from him that he's being blocked from bidding on my items. I thought it was because of un-paid strikes but he doesn't have any. I disabled the "Block Bidders With Un-paid Strikes" option on my Sellers Page just to be sure. He still can't bid on my items. I contacted eBay and they said he was being blocked due to the large number of bids he's placed on my items.
Their reasoning is that a friend or family member is working to run up bids or it could be a phony account used for the same reason. This reasoning ignores the dozens of paid and completed items adding up to big bucks. Now the only way he can remove the block is to call eBay and prove too them he's a legit buyer. He's VERY upset and I can't blame him. I could very well lose one of my best customers.
Is anybody else having problems due to eBay's paranoid policies and rules?
