Re: [meteorite-list] My ebay suspension.

2009-07-10 Thread Carl 's



Hi Dean and All,

Why not try amazon.com? You might list a few meteorites under Industrial  
Scientific and see what happens.It might take a while to build a meteorite base 
but if you want to diversify, why not? I've sold a few things there (not 
meteorites) and it takes a bit of getting used to (in fact, at first it's 
downright cumbersome). It's a totally different way to sell things from 
ebay.It's not auction based but more like Buy-It-Now. As of now, I see only 
meteorite posters for sale there so you may have the entire playing field all 
to yourself. Good luck!

Carl

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work, blame el nino.

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Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-10 Thread dean bessey

No they say that since they were ended because of listing violations that the 
fees are forfeited

--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Don Merchant dmerc...@rochester.rr.com wrote:

 From: Don Merchant dmerc...@rochester.rr.com
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension
 To: dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com, meteoritelist 
 meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, cdtuc...@cox.net
 Cc: Don Merchant dmerc...@rochester.rr.com
 Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 9:48 PM
 Hi Dean and sorry to see you go
 through this sad case of communication malfunction and lack
 of professional  etiquette of EBay. Your right you
 should of been contacted first or at the least as you said
 to just them removing only the pearl auctions. Let me ask
 you a questiondid you hold EBay to paying all your
 listing fees or have them allow you to list for free now
 that you have their explanation?
 Thank you.
 Sincerely
 Don Merchant
 IMCA # 0960
 - Original Message - From: dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com
 To: meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com;
 cdtuc...@cox.net
 Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:09 PM
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension
 
 
 
 Many thanks Carl for the poswerseller phone number. This
 has caused me $100 in phone bills today but at least the
 powerseller people reinstated my ebay account. The downside
 is that I now have no auctions at all listed and because
 ebay ended everything I have all the details lost so have to
 manually list everything again - 1700 auctions.
 Likely most wont get relisted as I plan to put more stuff
 on websites and diversify from ebay.
 I also found out why they suspended my account. Apparantly
 ebay has started a new rule where tahiti pearls are no
 longer permitted to be listed on ebay.
 So, rather than just end the pearl auctions (Or better yet
 - inform me of the new rule) they just said that I violated
 their rules to often (I assume more than 4 times since I had
 300 tahiti pearl auctions so I violated their listing rules
 300 times) and suspended my account.
 So anyway, thats why I was suspended and ebay has now
 kissed and made up so I can list everything except pearls
 again now.
 Cheers
 DEAN
 www.meteoriteshop.com
 
 
 --- On Thu, 7/9/09, cdtuc...@cox.net
 cdtuc...@cox.net
 wrote:
 
  From: cdtuc...@cox.net
 cdtuc...@cox.net
  Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension
  To: dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com,
 meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
  Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 7:13 PM
  Dean,
   Hello, I have heard of you many times and you
 have a great
  reputation so obviously it is not about you. I think
 it is
  likely issues with your links as well. I assume you
 are a
  power seller. We power sellers can call and if you
 call back
  you may get somebody smarter to speak with. The number
 that
  I use is a toll free 866-519-3229. and I am always
 able to
  get answers ( but may take more than one call) . It
  also may be a pearl seller competitor messing with
 you. As
  you know eBay these days is basically a glorified yard
 sale.
  Most dealers make much more from their own web sites.
 Good
  luck to you. Carl
  --
  Carl or Debbie Esparza
  IMCA 5829
  Meteoritemax
  
  
   dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com
  wrote:
  
   As if you didnt need another reason to try and
  diversify your business away from ebay here is what
 happened
  to me this morning. I am not making any part of this
 up or
  in any way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen
 King
  nor the guys on CSI could make this up.
   I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this
 morning
  from ebay cancelling my auctions and two emails saying
 that
  my account was suspended.
   Many auctions were canceled because they were
  Significantly misrepresented. After 3 hours of
 chatting
  with people I finally get through to the trust and
 safety
  people after a recommendation from ebay australia.
   I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way
 of
  knowing who) decided that my auctions were
  misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was
 misrepresented
  just that they look at the description, picture and
 content
  when deciding was what misrepresented but she had no
 way of
  knowing exactly what.
   So I try and reason with her. If you cant tell
 me
  what it is about my auctions that was misrepresented
 how can
  I not repeat the problem in the future?
   Sit down before you read her response.
   She said that if ebay told everybody what they
 look
  for when they decide that auctions are misrepresented
 then
  people would do things to get around their security
 checks
  in future auctions so it would be a security violation
 to
  tell me what it was about my auctions that was being
  misrepresented and therfore canceled (And leading to
 my
  suspension.) She then said that my suspension was for
 7 days
  so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any
 difference
  because you cant list on ebay for 7 days again
 anyway.
   Reasoning is getting harder. OK

Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-10 Thread dean bessey

I have had 5 people email me privately with a message saying something to the 
effect of Whats up with pearls - and could meteorites be next, so I will 
email the group rather than individually?
Answer is be afraid - be very afriad.
Apparantly the laws concerning the export and import of pearls are 
complicated so ebay has decided to no longer allow them (But there are still 
some listed on ebay and the Trust and saftety department told me it would be 
a security violation to give me this information - because people might use the 
info to circumvent those rules) so who the hell knows what ebay is up to. Even 
their own employees are kept in the dark (Presumably for security reasons)
I was told that it is illegal to export pearls from French Polynesia directlty 
into the USA (Whats up, has obama got a new dislike for the french? - if I 
promise to never ever again use the term French Fry can I then list tahiti 
pearls again?) and that I should look into the laws regarding pearls in my own 
country before I sell anymore.
So, I am told that conflicting and complicated laws are responsible for pearls 
getting prohibited from ebay.
Hm. Complicacated and conflicting laws? That wouldent also apply to 
Meteorites, artifacts, coins, collectibles - not to mention leather pants 
(Countries where cows are sacred) or a free press in general in some countries  
would it. 
Ebay was started to sell laser pointers if I remember correctly. Maybe 
eventually thats all that will be allowed again.
Me thinks that people should start diversifying from ebay as quickly and as 
much as possible. Paypal to (Nobody has ever had problems with paypal of 
course).
I now have 1700 auctions that disapeared and ebay tells me sorry, shit happens, 
now just be a good little boy and relist them all again so we can collect more 
ebay fees - and if we decide to end them all without telling you why and 
keeping all those fees again, well, shit happens.
Spending a lot of time looking for non ebay ways to sell right now
Cheers
DEAN



  
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[meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-09 Thread dean bessey

As if you didnt need another reason to try and diversify your business away 
from ebay here is what happened to me this morning. I am not making any part of 
this up or in any way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen King nor the 
guys on CSI could make this up.
I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this morning from ebay cancelling my 
auctions and two emails saying that my account was suspended.
Many auctions were canceled because they were Significantly misrepresented. 
After 3 hours of chatting with people I finally get through to the trust and 
safety people after a recommendation from ebay australia.
I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way of knowing who) decided that 
my  auctions were misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was misrepresented 
just that they look at the description, picture and content when deciding was 
what misrepresented but she had no way of knowing exactly what.
So I try and reason with her. If you cant tell me what it is about my auctions 
that was misrepresented how can I not repeat the problem in the future?
Sit down before you read her response.
She said that if ebay told everybody what they look for when they decide that 
auctions are misrepresented then people would do things to get around their 
security checks in future auctions so it would be a security violation to tell 
me what it was about my auctions that was being misrepresented and therfore 
canceled (And leading to my suspension.) She then said that my suspension was 
for 7 days so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any difference because 
you cant list on ebay for 7 days again anyway.
Reasoning is getting harder. OK, for my information. in seven days time when I 
get back on ebay again can you tell me what about my auctions was 
misrepresented so that I can fix them and not violate your policy in the future 
so I dont get kicked off again?.
Sorry, telling you what the problem is would be a security violation and if 
people who what they looked for would do things to circumvent their rules in 
the future.
This is going nowhere. I wish that I had a copy of that phone conversation. It 
would have looked good on youtube.
In addition, the emails that ended the auctions said this:

eBay has restricted your ability to list new items as a result of a policy 
violation. We'd be happy to lift this restriction once you've completed a brief 
tutorial about this policy. The next time you sign in to your eBay account, 
click on ?Sell? and ?Sell Your Item.? You?ll then be asked to take the 
tutorial. Once you've completed it, you can begin selling again immediately.
__
Unfortunately, doing so is not possible so I cant even sign on. Even their 
emails dont make sense.
So with a bit of luck, sometime in the next 7 days they will tell me what was 
wrong with my auctions so that I can fix it and not violate their policy - 
although maybe they will not because doing so might enable me to fix the 
problem out and circumvent their rules in the future.
I plan to spend the next 7 days getting some shopping cart websites built and 
trying out other sites to sell stuff. Anybody got any ideas where else to list 
stuff? Anybody know somebody with ebay who will talk to me?
Apparantly it was my pearl auctions that was somehow misrepresented but its not 
possible to find out why. It sgoing to be a pain relisting 1700 auctions. It 
probably wont get done - especially if I can figure out how to build a nice 
shopping cart website
Cheers
DEAN
On a completely different note I need to come up with around $2000 in my paypal 
account in the next week so I am particularly into dealing from my website 
right now WWW.METEORITESHOP.COM so if you see anything let me know.
Also, you people out there who owe me money, now is a good time to pay up.


  
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Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-09 Thread Greg Catterton

Wow, that sucks man. Ebay really is such a joke anymore.
They do nothing about people who sell fake meteorites unless you really give 
them hell, yet they do things like this.

I was listing links to my website (before I even had it set up with prices and 
such) and Ebay pulled something like 25 of my listings about a year ago. It 
seems someone was reporting my listings for violating ebay policy about 
links... I then relisted them and included links to the Meteorite database, 
those were pulled becouse you could supposedly link from that to places that 
had meteorites for sale - that were not even mine!

I have been trying to get a power seller status to reduce the costs of fees, 
but for someone like me that really does not sell much, its pretty hard to do - 
I loose something like 15-20% of my sales to fees...

I wish Erics meteorite auction site would have taken off, or someone would come 
up with a viable ebay alternative that would do well.

anyway, I hope you are able to get whatever it was worked out. It sucks ebay 
will suspend you but not provide better information as to the reason.

Greg C.

--- On Thu, 7/9/09, dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com
 Subject: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension
 To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 9:29 PM
 
 As if you didnt need another reason to try and diversify
 your business away from ebay here is what happened to me
 this morning. I am not making any part of this up or in any
 way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen King nor the
 guys on CSI could make this up.
 I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this morning from
 ebay cancelling my auctions and two emails saying that my
 account was suspended.
 Many auctions were canceled because they were
 Significantly misrepresented. After 3 hours of chatting
 with people I finally get through to the trust and safety
 people after a recommendation from ebay australia.
 I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way of
 knowing who) decided that my  auctions were
 misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was misrepresented
 just that they look at the description, picture and content
 when deciding was what misrepresented but she had no way of
 knowing exactly what.
 So I try and reason with her. If you cant tell me what it
 is about my auctions that was misrepresented how can I not
 repeat the problem in the future?
 Sit down before you read her response.
 She said that if ebay told everybody what they look for
 when they decide that auctions are misrepresented then
 people would do things to get around their security checks
 in future auctions so it would be a security violation to
 tell me what it was about my auctions that was being
 misrepresented and therfore canceled (And leading to my
 suspension.) She then said that my suspension was for 7 days
 so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any difference
 because you cant list on ebay for 7 days again anyway.
 Reasoning is getting harder. OK, for my information. in
 seven days time when I get back on ebay again can you tell
 me what about my auctions was misrepresented so that I can
 fix them and not violate your policy in the future so I dont
 get kicked off again?.
 Sorry, telling you what the problem is would be a security
 violation and if people who what they looked for would do
 things to circumvent their rules in the future.
 This is going nowhere. I wish that I had a copy of that
 phone conversation. It would have looked good on youtube.
 In addition, the emails that ended the auctions said this:
 
 eBay has restricted your ability to list new items as a
 result of a policy violation. We'd be happy to lift this
 restriction once you've completed a brief tutorial about
 this policy. The next time you sign in to your eBay account,
 click on ?Sell? and ?Sell Your Item.? You?ll then be asked
 to take the tutorial. Once you've completed it, you can
 begin selling again immediately.
 __
 Unfortunately, doing so is not possible so I cant even sign
 on. Even their emails dont make sense.
 So with a bit of luck, sometime in the next 7 days they
 will tell me what was wrong with my auctions so that I can
 fix it and not violate their policy - although maybe they
 will not because doing so might enable me to fix the problem
 out and circumvent their rules in the future.
 I plan to spend the next 7 days getting some shopping cart
 websites built and trying out other sites to sell stuff.
 Anybody got any ideas where else to list stuff? Anybody know
 somebody with ebay who will talk to me?
 Apparantly it was my pearl auctions that was somehow
 misrepresented but its not possible to find out why. It
 sgoing to be a pain relisting 1700 auctions. It probably
 wont get done - especially if I can figure out how to build
 a nice shopping cart website
 Cheers
 DEAN
 On a completely different

Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-09 Thread Richard Kowalski

Sorry to hear about this Dean.

I suggest that you write a letter to the CEO. Not an email, a letter, and send 
it registered mail. It may not get to the CEO, but it carries a bit more weight 
than an email or phone conversation with a lower CS person who know or cares 
very little, and is powerless to change anything.


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http://fullmoonphotography.net
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Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-09 Thread cdtucson
Dean,
 Hello, I have heard of you many times and you have a great reputation so 
obviously it is not about you. I think it is likely issues with your links as 
well. I assume you are a power seller. We power sellers can call and if you 
call back you may get somebody smarter to speak with. The number that I use is 
a toll free 866-519-3229. and I am always able to get answers ( but may take 
more than one call)  . It also may be a pearl seller competitor messing with 
you. As you know eBay these days is basically a glorified yard sale. Most 
dealers make much more from their own web sites. Good luck to you. Carl
--
Carl or Debbie Esparza
IMCA 5829
Meteoritemax


 dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com wrote: 
 
 As if you didnt need another reason to try and diversify your business away 
 from ebay here is what happened to me this morning. I am not making any part 
 of this up or in any way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen King nor 
 the guys on CSI could make this up.
 I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this morning from ebay cancelling my 
 auctions and two emails saying that my account was suspended.
 Many auctions were canceled because they were Significantly misrepresented. 
 After 3 hours of chatting with people I finally get through to the trust and 
 safety people after a recommendation from ebay australia.
 I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way of knowing who) decided 
 that my  auctions were misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was 
 misrepresented just that they look at the description, picture and content 
 when deciding was what misrepresented but she had no way of knowing exactly 
 what.
 So I try and reason with her. If you cant tell me what it is about my 
 auctions that was misrepresented how can I not repeat the problem in the 
 future?
 Sit down before you read her response.
 She said that if ebay told everybody what they look for when they decide that 
 auctions are misrepresented then people would do things to get around their 
 security checks in future auctions so it would be a security violation to 
 tell me what it was about my auctions that was being misrepresented and 
 therfore canceled (And leading to my suspension.) She then said that my 
 suspension was for 7 days so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any 
 difference because you cant list on ebay for 7 days again anyway.
 Reasoning is getting harder. OK, for my information. in seven days time when 
 I get back on ebay again can you tell me what about my auctions was 
 misrepresented so that I can fix them and not violate your policy in the 
 future so I dont get kicked off again?.
 Sorry, telling you what the problem is would be a security violation and if 
 people who what they looked for would do things to circumvent their rules in 
 the future.
 This is going nowhere. I wish that I had a copy of that phone conversation. 
 It would have looked good on youtube.
 In addition, the emails that ended the auctions said this:
 
 eBay has restricted your ability to list new items as a result of a policy 
 violation. We'd be happy to lift this restriction once you've completed a 
 brief tutorial about this policy. The next time you sign in to your eBay 
 account, click on ?Sell? and ?Sell Your Item.? You?ll then be asked to take 
 the tutorial. Once you've completed it, you can begin selling again 
 immediately.
 __
 Unfortunately, doing so is not possible so I cant even sign on. Even their 
 emails dont make sense.
 So with a bit of luck, sometime in the next 7 days they will tell me what was 
 wrong with my auctions so that I can fix it and not violate their policy - 
 although maybe they will not because doing so might enable me to fix the 
 problem out and circumvent their rules in the future.
 I plan to spend the next 7 days getting some shopping cart websites built and 
 trying out other sites to sell stuff. Anybody got any ideas where else to 
 list stuff? Anybody know somebody with ebay who will talk to me?
 Apparantly it was my pearl auctions that was somehow misrepresented but its 
 not possible to find out why. It sgoing to be a pain relisting 1700 auctions. 
 It probably wont get done - especially if I can figure out how to build a 
 nice shopping cart website
 Cheers
 DEAN
 On a completely different note I need to come up with around $2000 in my 
 paypal account in the next week so I am particularly into dealing from my 
 website right now WWW.METEORITESHOP.COM so if you see anything let me know.
 Also, you people out there who owe me money, now is a good time to pay up.
 
 
   
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Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-09 Thread dean bessey

Many thanks Carl for the poswerseller phone number. This has caused me $100 in 
phone bills today but at least the powerseller people reinstated my ebay 
account. The downside is that I now have no auctions at all listed and because 
ebay ended everything I have all the details lost so have to manually list 
everything again - 1700 auctions.
Likely most wont get relisted as I plan to put more stuff on websites and 
diversify from ebay.
I also found out why they suspended my account. Apparantly ebay has started a 
new rule where tahiti pearls are no longer permitted to be listed on ebay. 
So, rather than just end the pearl auctions (Or better yet - inform me of the 
new rule) they just said that I violated their rules to often (I assume more 
than 4 times since I had 300 tahiti pearl auctions so I violated their listing 
rules 300 times) and suspended my account.
So anyway, thats why I was suspended and ebay has now kissed and made up so I 
can list everything except pearls again now.
Cheers
DEAN
www.meteoriteshop.com


--- On Thu, 7/9/09, cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net wrote:

 From: cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension
 To: dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com, meteoritelist 
 meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 7:13 PM
 Dean,
  Hello, I have heard of you many times and you have a great
 reputation so obviously it is not about you. I think it is
 likely issues with your links as well. I assume you are a
 power seller. We power sellers can call and if you call back
 you may get somebody smarter to speak with. The number that
 I use is a toll free 866-519-3229. and I am always able to
 get answers ( but may take more than one call)  . It
 also may be a pearl seller competitor messing with you. As
 you know eBay these days is basically a glorified yard sale.
 Most dealers make much more from their own web sites. Good
 luck to you. Carl
 --
 Carl or Debbie Esparza
 IMCA 5829
 Meteoritemax
 
 
  dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com
 wrote: 
  
  As if you didnt need another reason to try and
 diversify your business away from ebay here is what happened
 to me this morning. I am not making any part of this up or
 in any way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen King
 nor the guys on CSI could make this up.
  I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this morning
 from ebay cancelling my auctions and two emails saying that
 my account was suspended.
  Many auctions were canceled because they were
 Significantly misrepresented. After 3 hours of chatting
 with people I finally get through to the trust and safety
 people after a recommendation from ebay australia.
  I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way of
 knowing who) decided that my  auctions were
 misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was misrepresented
 just that they look at the description, picture and content
 when deciding was what misrepresented but she had no way of
 knowing exactly what.
  So I try and reason with her. If you cant tell me
 what it is about my auctions that was misrepresented how can
 I not repeat the problem in the future?
  Sit down before you read her response.
  She said that if ebay told everybody what they look
 for when they decide that auctions are misrepresented then
 people would do things to get around their security checks
 in future auctions so it would be a security violation to
 tell me what it was about my auctions that was being
 misrepresented and therfore canceled (And leading to my
 suspension.) She then said that my suspension was for 7 days
 so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any difference
 because you cant list on ebay for 7 days again anyway.
  Reasoning is getting harder. OK, for my information.
 in seven days time when I get back on ebay again can you
 tell me what about my auctions was misrepresented so that I
 can fix them and not violate your policy in the future so I
 dont get kicked off again?.
  Sorry, telling you what the problem is would be a
 security violation and if people who what they looked for
 would do things to circumvent their rules in the future.
  This is going nowhere. I wish that I had a copy of
 that phone conversation. It would have looked good on
 youtube.
  In addition, the emails that ended the auctions said
 this:
  
  eBay has restricted your ability to list new items as
 a result of a policy violation. We'd be happy to lift this
 restriction once you've completed a brief tutorial about
 this policy. The next time you sign in to your eBay account,
 click on ?Sell? and ?Sell Your Item.? You?ll then be asked
 to take the tutorial. Once you've completed it, you can
 begin selling again immediately.
  __
  Unfortunately, doing so is not possible so I cant even
 sign on. Even their emails dont make sense.
  So with a bit of luck, sometime in the next 7 days
 they will tell me what was wrong

Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension

2009-07-09 Thread Don Merchant
Hi Dean and sorry to see you go through this sad case of communication 
malfunction and lack of professional  etiquette of EBay. Your right you 
should of been contacted first or at the least as you said to just them 
removing only the pearl auctions. Let me ask you a questiondid you hold 
EBay to paying all your listing fees or have them allow you to list for free 
now that you have their explanation?

Thank you.
Sincerely
Don Merchant
IMCA # 0960
- Original Message - 
From: dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com
To: meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com; 
cdtuc...@cox.net

Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension



Many thanks Carl for the poswerseller phone number. This has caused me $100 
in phone bills today but at least the powerseller people reinstated my ebay 
account. The downside is that I now have no auctions at all listed and 
because ebay ended everything I have all the details lost so have to 
manually list everything again - 1700 auctions.
Likely most wont get relisted as I plan to put more stuff on websites and 
diversify from ebay.
I also found out why they suspended my account. Apparantly ebay has started 
a new rule where tahiti pearls are no longer permitted to be listed on ebay.
So, rather than just end the pearl auctions (Or better yet - inform me of 
the new rule) they just said that I violated their rules to often (I assume 
more than 4 times since I had 300 tahiti pearl auctions so I violated their 
listing rules 300 times) and suspended my account.
So anyway, thats why I was suspended and ebay has now kissed and made up so 
I can list everything except pearls again now.

Cheers
DEAN
www.meteoriteshop.com


--- On Thu, 7/9/09, cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net wrote:


From: cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] My Ebay suspension
To: dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com, meteoritelist 
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 7:13 PM
Dean,
 Hello, I have heard of you many times and you have a great
reputation so obviously it is not about you. I think it is
likely issues with your links as well. I assume you are a
power seller. We power sellers can call and if you call back
you may get somebody smarter to speak with. The number that
I use is a toll free 866-519-3229. and I am always able to
get answers ( but may take more than one call) . It
also may be a pearl seller competitor messing with you. As
you know eBay these days is basically a glorified yard sale.
Most dealers make much more from their own web sites. Good
luck to you. Carl
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Carl or Debbie Esparza
IMCA 5829
Meteoritemax


 dean bessey deanbes...@yahoo.com
wrote:

 As if you didnt need another reason to try and
diversify your business away from ebay here is what happened
to me this morning. I am not making any part of this up or
in any way dramatizing what happened. Neither Stephen King
nor the guys on CSI could make this up.
 I wake up to numerous emails from ebay this morning
from ebay cancelling my auctions and two emails saying that
my account was suspended.
 Many auctions were canceled because they were
Significantly misrepresented. After 3 hours of chatting
with people I finally get through to the trust and safety
people after a recommendation from ebay australia.
 I was told that somebody (who??? - she had no way of
knowing who) decided that my auctions were
misrepresented. She couldent tell me what was misrepresented
just that they look at the description, picture and content
when deciding was what misrepresented but she had no way of
knowing exactly what.
 So I try and reason with her. If you cant tell me
what it is about my auctions that was misrepresented how can
I not repeat the problem in the future?
 Sit down before you read her response.
 She said that if ebay told everybody what they look
for when they decide that auctions are misrepresented then
people would do things to get around their security checks
in future auctions so it would be a security violation to
tell me what it was about my auctions that was being
misrepresented and therfore canceled (And leading to my
suspension.) She then said that my suspension was for 7 days
so even if she did tell me it wouldent make any difference
because you cant list on ebay for 7 days again anyway.
 Reasoning is getting harder. OK, for my information.
in seven days time when I get back on ebay again can you
tell me what about my auctions was misrepresented so that I
can fix them and not violate your policy in the future so I
dont get kicked off again?.
 Sorry, telling you what the problem is would be a
security violation and if people who what they looked for
would do things to circumvent their rules in the future.
 This is going nowhere. I wish that I had a copy of
that phone conversation. It would have looked good on
youtube.
 In addition, the emails that ended the auctions said
this:
 
 eBay