Permantly Restricted From Selling

[beaniebabesnc]

Hey guys,

My account was just permenantly restricted for selling on eBay.

There was no reason given.

First, I got a 5 day payout hold. Then, after it ended I got restricted from editing any listings or posting any new ones.

This morning, I got the email and all listings were removed. They have about $2.5k of mine sitting on hold.

I’ve been selling for 13 months and have sold almost 14,000 items and have no clue why this happened.

I spoke to support on the phone and they were no help at all. I saw a like-minded thread and filed a complaint with the BBB.

Any advice folks?

Cheers

Rich

[beaniebabesnc]

New condition, but they were vintage dated

[dhbookds]

I kind of wondered about the "new" condition......when you say thrift shop, flea market, and buy my inventory from private collections ............

we are all just guessing, of course...

[beaniebabesnc]

I figured new meant new condition. Used I think played with, old, not sealed in a bag for 20+ years. My competition in the category also lists as new. The 2 other biggest sellers do the exact same as me.

[evry1nositswindy]

14,0000 new would have receipts.  14,000 used from thrift stores would have receipts.  Between that and the high defect rate, there is your answer.

  Tax time will be interesting without receipts. 

[farmalljr]

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@beaniebabesnc wrote:

My sales have heated up. They were about $500 a day in Q4 of last year, but only $200-400 a day for most of this year. This last month has been extremely good, $500-$1000 in sales per day.I just don’t know how to fix this

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None of us have access to your account info. But, from paying attention, I can tell you why I suspect you got suspended.

1 You sales velocity grew too fast. Over a short period of time, you started selling too fast for eBay's liking.

2 You don't have receipts from a distributor/wholesaler for your inventory. eBay deems this "risky" to their own interests.

eBay has deemed you a "risk" to them and suspended your account. Nothing you can do unless they magically reinstate your account (unlikely). Don't feel like you are the only one to have this happen. Pretty sure it's far from unheard of. And if eBay will not lift the suspension, it's time to take the fork in the road, if you want to continue to sell your stuff.

[lacemaker3]

@beaniebabesnc,

I don't know whether this was a factor in your suspension or not, but you were selling items that have been heavily counterfeited over the years. You were mostly selling the early beanie babies, before they started including the anti-counterfeiting measures, and the volume you reported (14,000 beanies in 13 months) is unlikely to be available from legitimate sources. That would be why eBay wanted to see your invoices, to check your sources. But in fact, there aren't any legitimate sources for that many early beanie babies.

You may not have been knowingly purchasing fakes, but you have no way to know where your suppliers got their items from. The collectors may have unknowingly purchased fakes 10 or 20 years ago.

The fakes were made in the same factories that made the real ones for Ty. When they didn't have legitimate orders to fill, they would make them anyway, in order to keep their factory running and be able to pay their employees. They couldn't afford to just shut down, they had to make something. So they went out and got the materials from the same sources that Ty ordered from, and made them to sell on the black market.

American business people used to come back from trips to China with suitcases stuffed full of fake beanies to sell to their colleagues. You could buy them by the case in the markets and on the street. They knew they were fake, it was very easy to see what was going on when you were visiting China on a business trip, even for unrelated businesses.

[farmalljr]

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@lacemaker3 wrote:

@beaniebabesnc,

I don't know whether this was a factor in your suspension or not, but you were selling items that have been heavily counterfeited over the years. You were mostly selling the early beanie babies, before they started including the anti-counterfeiting measures, and the volume you reported (14,000 beanies in 13 months) is unlikely to be available from legitimate sources. That would be why eBay wanted to see your invoices, to check your sources. But in fact, there aren't any legitimate sources for that many early beanie babies.

You may not have been knowingly purchasing fakes, but you have no way to know where your suppliers got their items from. The collectors may have unknowingly purchased fakes 10 or 20 years ago.

The fakes were made in the same factories that made the real ones for Ty. When they didn't have legitimate orders to fill, they would make them anyway, in order to keep their factory running and be able to pay their employees. They couldn't afford to just shut down, they had to make something. So they went out and got the materials from the same sources that Ty ordered from, and made them to sell on the black market.

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Uh, a "fake" is a reproduction of something. It's not made of the same materials and is always somehow different from an authentic item. If these were made by the same factory, from the same materials, they would have been "unauthorized", not fake. At the end of the day, neither way is better than the other. Both are not approved by the brand owner. But at this point in time, unless these WERE in fact fake, there is no way for anyone to tell the difference.