Comments on: eBay Tightens Up Restrictions on Non-Performing Sellers

By: A Smith

A Smith — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:07:21 +0000

Ebay have changed my Private Seller status to Business Seller. Why? because according to them I have listed rather a lot of items over a few weeks period. BUT according to them EU rules forbids them tell us how many private sellers are allowed to list. IS THAT STUPID OR WHAT?
Despite appealing they keep quoting EU guide lines at me. Ebay introduced 100 99p listings per month as well as Free listings as often as twice a month, yet do not stipulate how many can be listed without breaking their rules. YET hundreds if not thousands of sellers are selling more in one month than I can in a whole year yet, they are Not registered as business sellers. Can someone please explain?

By: Gary Hanson

Gary Hanson — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:09:58 +0000

I am amazed that eBay feels free to creat seller standard that they implement without prior warning. Ebay slapped their below standard rating on me, but even through the 90 restriction was suppose to have ended some 90 days ago they have refused to lift the restriction and now inform me that they have made up some new catagory having to do with this average 4.1 rating. I notice that soon before they placed these restrictions on me that someone started selling a very similar (if not a direct rip-off of my copyrighted manual).
I urge all of you to do eBay keyword searches to see if your products are being sold by someone else. Now that eBay has eliminated us as sellers.

By: Jana Townsend

Jana Townsend — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:54:28 +0000

Dear Mr. Riddle,

You should change some of your information, to wit; “The new rules require a minimum of “4.3 stars” in each of the four categories of the DSR.” That has changed slightly to a requirement of 4.1 on all five detailed seller ratings. I applaud your efforts to make public any information about Ebay’s dirty little punish the seller policies. You are correct; in the real world a 4.3 rating would be a B+ which would give you a 3.5 grade average in any university. The new 4.1 standards are just as harsh, in the real world that would be a B grade; at my university it would give me a 3.0 grade average which is commendable to say the least. This DSR policy is unwarranted and only hurts those who are trying to make a living.
Thank you,
Jana Townsend

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:04:23 +0000

Hello, I found your article very interesting. I am so sorry to hear about your negative experience with eBay. I have been buying and selling on eBay since 2002, never ever breached an eBay policy and have 100% positive feedback and out of the blue they have “restricted” me from selling my used designer luxury handbags, from my own personal collection, purchased exclusively by myself from the boutiques. I am absolutely flabbergasted to have been treated in this fashion. I foresee eBay having very few decent customers in the near future; I have now found an alternative to eBay as this experience has upset me too much to use them again. Wishing you every success in the future. Kind regards, Amanda