mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@clial-9728 wrote:The best answer for me 'to get rid of such nonsense' is to leave eBay. As one Chinese seller told me, "To alleviate the problem(s) is to stop selling, close the account, and then change everything. Change email address, change eBay seller name, use another bank account number." This seller in China is selling hundreds of items a week. Closing his account and then reopening has saved him that 6% extra fee for poor performance. So if he was making $1000 a week and eBay was taking that extra, it's well worth doing what he had done. Yes, he will start at zero but buyers will still buy from 'new seller's. By the way, this seller has been charged that extra 6% because he had out of stock items. Now his shop is back to being full and he's thriving again.
Well that is very bad advice and something Ebay won't allow you to do.
If you close an account, there is nothing to "change", that account is closed.
To open a new account, you would have to have a different Ebay ID and a different email address than your original account. Your bank account however can be the same, no need to create a new bank account.
If your account has been evaluated as Below Standard for more than 2 consecutive months: We may downgrade your Store to the Basic level. We may place selling restrictions on your account and related accounts, or restrict you from registering a new account.
@clial-9728 wrote:Yes, this Chinese seller has been a member since 2000. You say "Well that's bad advice and something eBay won't allow you to do." But he has done it! He gave me his former three store names and I found them, they are closed but still on eBay for some weird reason. He doesn't want to he tracked so he simply closed his accounts. Then opens another one a week later to start over and avoid that stupid 6% extra below performance charge. I think he changed his bank account so as not to be linked to his old account. Being that eBay monitors these messages, I won't say what his store name is. Leave it to the Chinese to find ways to exploit or find holes. This time, I appreciate what one has done.
I realize you are upset with Ebay. That is abundantly clear. But bad advice is simply Bad Advice. You certainly have the right to give it a try if you want. Whether Ebay catches it right away or at a later date, IDK. But it is a pretty big risk to take as you could end up banned from selling on Ebay. However it is your right to make your own choices.
This rule on the penalty fees has not been around since 2000, nor could a new account for this Chinese seller show they have been here that long unless the account already existed and they just started using it after another account of theirs had dropped to Below Standard. I think it started around 2016, but I could be wrong on the year it started.
Simply closing accounts does not prevent Ebay from linking the accounts together.
