yeah, this is an old personal account - opened about 5 years ago and never sold anything in there.
after all the "you are a Top Seller", but unless you have the luck to not have some idiot give a negative feedback for 'not as described', even though there are pictures of every direction and shape, etc. (well, you know the story.....) - I got fed up with them and closed my store, sold off (well, it has wound up being 'given away' as the guy has never paid me on it and he's disappeared....) the inventory and turned over the ebay account to a buddy of mine that wanted to 'keep the business open' - (a whole other story....).
anyway, I thought I was through with eBay until Palladium beat me over the head to sell my books on there - Ok, I finally decided to do it and figured an older account would be better than a brand new one. But, they stopped me from listing more than one book (they told me anything in the same category at all - I didn't try rewording/renaming....). I was able to put one in an auction and one as a 'buy it now'.
The funny thing is that when I called to complain about only being able to list one item in each category, the CSR told me that, even though I used the eBay tools to get the category, I was not in compliance and they could "further restrict" my account (though, just how, I can't imagine!). I had put the name of the book in their 'find me a category' box and then used the one that came up (isn't that what you are supposed to do with the tools they provide???) - yet, I was 'not in compliance'??? And, supposedly as a 'new' user, just how friendly are they to the newbie?
Well, I can say that my experience with them was to find out they are just as RUDE to a new person as to one that was selling several hundred items a year and putting a wad of cash in both eBay and Paypal pockets. Guess that makes it OK then, as long as they treat everyone as poorly as the next..........
(said as he exits the anti-eBay soap box section...... :roll:
