02-23-2023 11:02 PM - last edited on 02-24-2023 09:06 PM by kh-leslie
So this week my now second account has been banned because of the negligence Ebay has shown in providing us trading card sellers. A viable way to ship single cards for about 60 cents. The tracking on that shipping service isn't real it does not track while in route. The only time it tracks if your lucky is when it goes to a sorting station and the information is sent out on the USPS network that a package or letter is being sent to the Buyers address.
There needs to be a class action lawsuit for bad business practice for them knowingly lying that it has tracking and then punishing us sellers and banning our accounts when it doesn't track.
My question is how do other TCG sellers sell there singles? I don't see how any buyer would pay 4.99 for usps first class with tracking on a $1.50 card??
im now gonna be forced to only sell cards that are valued at 4$ and above and use expensive tracking shipping so scammers can scam the system.
Im gonna also start selling on TCGplayer because eBay likes to suck all the blood from its sellers with fees and siding with fellow scammers like them selves.
Any insight on too how you sellers with multiple thousands of feedback avoid getting banned while you offer 1$ cards for sale with free shipping that I'm assuming has tracking.
I just don't see how its possible unless I wait till I have like 100 feedback before I start to use that shipping service with fake tracking again. All information is welcomed
02-24-2023 05:46 PM
Something about square pegs and round holes comes to mind.
eBay is not the proper venue to be selling $1.00 anything with free shipping. It is that simple.
Bundle several (10?) cards together as a lot so that the apportioned shipping works out to be 40 cents per card.
Except for a couple of items I have priced cheap just to get rid of them I do not, and will not try to, sell anything for less than $14.99 with free shipping.
02-24-2023 06:00 PM
I don't think you're allowed to open up a new account once one is suspended. That's probably why you're most recent account was suspended not anything to do with the Standard Envelope Program.
Maybe the first time you got suspended because you weren't refunding the buyers and just making eBay step in to refund them on INRs.
02-24-2023 06:09 PM
One can mail 4 trading cards in a standard envelope for .63. I have done it a number of times. One doesn't need tracking for stuff at $5.00. So the standard envelope has to be less than 1/4 inch thick and bendable. It's that simple. Cannot put a plastic card holder in a standard envelope. Just 1 to 4 cards with very thin cardboard. Nothing really gets lost in the mail. If something is not mail currently then it will got lost. You cannot just stuff anything in the standard envelope by eBay. The rules are the same for less than 1/4 inch thick and bendable. I don't know how many feedback you have on your other account so I don't know what you might be doing wrong. Trading cards selling here can be good. The key is getting the feedback at 100%. And then getting "repeat buyers". I sell a lot of stuff at $1.98 and make a profit. I do certified mail for expensive stuff and registered mail for International Mail. I prefer to do that in person at the USPS post office where everyone knows me by now. There are secrets in mailing stuff and the clerks are quite helpful. That is how I started out...and continue today.
02-24-2023 06:09 PM
You don't need tracking to stay on ebay or be in 'good' with ebay. You DO need to mark items shipped. If buyers are NOT receiving their items and opening a 'refund for non delivery' then YOU need to simply refund them.
Sounds like you were NOT doing that, ebay was doing it for you-basically taking 'care of your customers' for you, so that is when you will have problems/get banned etc.