eBay/Craigslist Banned From Ebay???

jpr62902 · Sep 30, 2005

I purchased lynch pins (pardon the expression) from you about a year ago and ever since, I kept an eye on your auctions. They're always reasonably priced and no nonsense. This circumstance strikes me as being blown way out of proportion. Good luck to you.

PineRidge · Sep 30, 2005

A lot of eBay's policies have changed in the past years. When we first signed up to eBay back in 1997 our user-name was pineridge7.com can you guess why? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Some time back we got a call from eBay telling us that because of a policy change we had to pick a new name or they would do it for us. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif URLs are no longer allowed as eBay user-names. That's not to say that you still won't still see some but once another user reports the violation the eBay staff will follow up with a reminder to the offender.

The site is way to big for them to police themselves, they rely on the eBay collective community to bring them up to speed. I jokingly refer to them as the BORG /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

MossRoad · Sep 30, 2005

Shouldn' that be E-BORG? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

PineRidge · Oct 1, 2005

Moss /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

ptfarmermd · Oct 3, 2005

I can hear it now.

"I am lowprices of the e-borg. Prepare to be auctioned, I mean assimilated."

I was sorry to hear about your bad luck. Hopefully ebay can get it straightened out so you can get back on it. It is not fair to you to be banned if you were playing by the rules, which it sounds like you were.

I hope they find a way to ban these people who put up all of these fake tractor auctions. I almost bit on one myself, well a couple, but then I remember the old axiom, "If it sounds too good to be true, then it is."

My 0.02 contribution.

coffeeman · Oct 3, 2005

Hey all

I think shill can also refer to gambling. For instance, gaming joint is running a poker game. They might employ a person to play in poker game using house money. That person is called a shill.

Cheers ... coffeeman

Redstone · Oct 6, 2005

Knowing two peolpe who have been involved with the same thing from e-Bay, if e-Bay knew for a fact that this practice was going on, then you would have been suspended permanently without question. The do moniter where bids are made from, etc to try to limit everything illegal that they can. I have even had to get rid of my policy here at work that employees cannot sell anything to one another without going through e-Bay. The idea was to keep from having inter-office termoil by running everything though e-Bay, but they said that we couldn't do this eventhough it does not violate any e-Bay policy. I guess they can set their on policy.