PayPal and eBay both have suspended my accounts with them even though
I have never violated either of their policies, and truly never did anything
wrong to deserve this.
PayPal currently has $441.83 of mine.
I called them, and they said that money would not be available to me
until June of 2011 .
This is not right!
PayPal and eBay have too much power over people's lives and don't care
who they hurt!
Even if I did violate one or two of their policies, (WHICH I DID NOT!)
they should forgive people, and give them a second chance, or at least allow them
to appeal. Their policies are so outrageous and so complicated,
that nobody could ever abide by them no matter how hard they tried!
I started selling on eBay a few months ago. I followed their advice,
used an eBay recommended drop shipper and watched the eBay tutorial on
the eBay site.
In the tutorial it says to put the brand name of a product in a listing
so that the customer will know exactly what they are getting, so I did.
I got in trouble for violating intellectual property rights!
I couldn't believe it. I did what the eBay tutorial told me to and got
in trouble for doing it!
Then, even though everything I sold on eBay was authentic, there was a
man who thought that one of the items I sold was a replica. It was
not! But he complained.
I called eBay shortly after this and a man at eBay went over my listings
with me and he told me that all of my listings complied with eBay's
policies and were listed well.
So, even though I only made the one small mistake in the beginning by
following the eBay tutorial and doing what it told me to and then got one bad
feedback from some guy who only thought I was selling a fake watch, that
was in fact the real thing, I got booted off eBay permanently.
I DID NOTHING WRONG!
I truly feel that I was shafted.
And if there is a class action lawsuit being brought against PayPal and
eBay, as I'm sure there must be since this sort of thing must happen
all the time to innocent Americans, I want to be a part of it because
they truly are an evil entity. They should be put out of business as soon as possible
and not be allowed to destroy anyone Else's lives.
Amazon.com is a much better place to sell online! Why?
For many reasons compared to eBay. For one. On Amazon.com you can sign up for a free account, and if you find something on Amazon.com that exactly matches what you are selling you just click on sell yours here.
This takes maybe a little more time sometimes because Amazon may not have the same exact item you are selling or it may be listed under another category. But sometimes it is faster since Amazon has a lot of the same items people sell already listed.
But this is really much better than eBay because once you find an item that exactly matches your item on Amazon.com, all you do is click sell yours here.
This prevents any problems. There is no chance of you getting in trouble for violating intellectual property rights and there is no need for putting in a picture of your item or anything, because it is already there. All you do is click on sell yours here and your done. You have nothing to worry about whether your item sells or not.
Also, I signed up for an astore on Amazon.com. This is an option. You don't have to have an astore to sell on Amazon.com, but you can if you want. It is $39.99 per month, and you get your own store like site, 5 pages, to sell your items that maybe Amazon.com doesn't have listed already.
For this astore you have to list the items yourself.
So be careful to not list the brand name in the title or you may get in trouble for violating intellectual property rights.
But you can list brand names in the description.
Anyway, one big difference between Amazon.com and eBay is that Amazon actually has a phone number you can call and a real person will be more than happy to talk with you and help you every step of the way.
At eBay it is almost impossible to get to talk to a real person and when you finally do, after pressing 1 then 3 then 5 then waiting on hold for half an hour for example, the person you get to talk with sounds like they are upset because you called and like they really can't be bothered. They are rude and not very helpful!
You can sign up for either a free Amazon.com account or get your own astore for $39.99 per month here
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=fi073-20">SHOP amazon.com
</a>
Amazon.com is GREAT compared to eBay!
And you don't have to have a PayPal account. Amazon.com has its own service. It is called Amazon check out. You can easily sell on Amazon.com with a free account or a pay account, get help when you need it, use Amazon check out, and never have to mess with eBay!
Also another good place to sell online is TripleClicks. TripleClicks.com is an up and coming new site. It has only been around for two years, but is quickly gaining ground as more and more people are finding out like I did just how awful eBay is.
TripleClicks is totally free to join. They only take a small percentage of whatever you sell. Once you sell something TripleClicks takes 15%. So all you have to do is adjust your price to compensate for this.
You can sign up on TripleClicks for free here http://www.tripleclicks.com/10638348
It's great! There is no monthly re bill. Just sign up and start selling your stuff. Also it is very easy to follow their instructions. It's very simple.
To your success. Sincerely George
