Another day fantastic day went by, just as I had forseen, my online business – The Ray Johnson Group turned a big daily profit yet again… and BOOM – the unthinkable happened – again…

I received the dreaded email that all too many eBay sellers and Powersellers alike – are receiving on a daily basis. The suspension notice to my eBay account.

Now, do not get me wrong, eBay are a huge company and obviously have strict policies and codes of conduct  to follow – and that is all well and good to prevent unwanted eBay users, like fraudulent users, shill bidders etc etc from abusing the eBay community, but as an eBay GOLD Powerseller – soon to be PLATINUM I was horrified. Why?

Well to cut a long story short – this is the 2nd time eBay have suspended my account.

The first time – I had used the text “mind control” in a hypnosis eBook advert, which violated my friend Derren Brown (the channel 4 hypnosis guy’s) VERO protected eBay listing! Fortunately after contacting Derren’s management company – and eBay approximately 12 times.. (yes I said 12) I was formerly reinstated.

This suspension I have found to be related to “suspicious account activity” and after a lot of digging, eBay advised the reason was due to “suspiciously large volumes of revenue” passing through my account. (Talk about getting punished for your own success…)

I was fuming, but could see the logical side from eBay’s point of view, but then talk about adding insult to injury! Paypal sent me an email stating I too had been “limited” from using my Paypal for the same reason.

After 10 days of constant communication – eBay and Paypal state they will be reinstating my accounts very shortly.

 The moral of this tale is clear. eBay and Paypal are the boss. They control your eBay eBook Business – they control the funds that you receive, they determine whether or not you are guilty of any “crime” – no matter how big or small it may be.

Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket – use another payment processor like 2CO, StormPay, WorldPay, 1ShoppingCart or your OWN merchant account – (your bank business department will advise you on this).

I have learned a valuable lesson from these unforseen events, and I hope that this post will help you steer clear of the same problems!

Tag: eBay & Paypal Suspension