Ebay Suspended, Life in the Amazon Jungle

    EBAY SUSPENDED, Life in the Amazon Jungle


    Let us visit the legendary Amazon.  No not the jungle, but the mega site.
    We have left Ebay. We need some place to visit until we find
a home or at least a cool apartment with ultra low rent to set up shop.  How about
a quick stop at Amazon?  It is Ebay’s number one competitor. It is gigantic
and depending on what you sell it is a good place to visit.
    Amazon sellers are subject to sales metrics.  This would not be bad if
they gave out automatic feedbacks after a month or two from buyers who just
do not feel like it matters and to them it does not, but to someone who needs to
maintain a high metric it means a great deal.  You can have your
money frozen and booted from the site for not maintaining that 97 plus rating.
Which means you can sell 80 items, get 48 feedbacks that are thumbs up 2 that
are thumbs down and 30 non feedbacks and you have fallen below the metric
and you can get hammered by a buyer for any reason.  That is the one thing that
Ebay and Amazon have in common. 
    This answers why so many people sell books for 1 cent.  Just trying to
maintain that metric so that they can sell the big stuff.  It is a place to visit.  You
can earn some money there and you can use it as a platform to market yourself.
We will get into the marketing of ourselves later. 
    Back to the subject. The best item to sell on this site is books.  Be it
actual books or Ebooks that you write.  Which Amazon will be more than happy to
help you sell if they are good and become popular. Ebooks, writing them and
marketing them are another subject and you can find a ton of information about
that on Youtube.  What ever is your niche market you will find a place for it
there. 
    What I am saying is that Amazon is a place to visit.  Look at it as a
gas station.  Refill your tanks.  Check the tires.  Buy some over priced chips
and get back on the road.  There are a few towns down the road and we are
going to find a home for you in one of them. 
    Good.  I see a sign post.
    It says Ebay? 
    No, god no.  That can not be right.
    It says Ebid.
    Ebid?
    Let’s pay a visit.

Ebay Suspended Or Restricted, Move on to Bigger and Better

            Ebay Suspended or Restricted, Moving On
           

Introduction:

    You just got suspended or restricted by Ebay and you have no clue why.
You are shocked and confused.
    They sent you a violation message with a series of letter and number that really seem to amount to nothing. You have investigated both on the site’s forum and on google what this EE or MC suspension and or restriction amounts to and you can find no real information. 
    Your first impulse after this is to go to Ebay and beg for forgiveness and to
plead please take me back.I promised not to do what ever you said that I did.
Of course they have not really said a thing and the sad truth is that they may
never say a thing. 
    Why should they?
     Ebay does not have to.
    Your feedback is perfect and your customers love you.  So what?  The do not care about Sellers on Ebay. You need to understand that there is a thousand people waiting in line to take your place. 
    Allow me to introduce your choices. 
    You could beg Ebay to take you back.  Just tell me what I did baby and I
promise not to do it again.  If you are one of the few people that the do manage
to offer a reason to it will sound insane.  You will be given a bunch of hops that
you can not jump through.  A mountain too high to climb and a promise to
welcome you home if you can prove the existence of God and provide his mother’s
maiden name. 
    In other words begging does not work.  
    So this leave you with choices.
    First I mentioned begging; go ahead if you have to and come back in
two or three weeks and continue reading from here.  Secondly you could just
quit.  Don’t get mad at me.  Think about it.  There was life before Ebay and you can go back to that life now. 
    You could try to go the Ebay Stealth route.  Many have tried.  It works for
a little while.  Some have made it work for years, but is this any life to live.  Acting
like the criminal that Ebay has accused you of being.  Changing your name and
paypal and address to get back on Ebay?
    How about moving on and up.  Ebay is where you started, not where you
should have planned to work forever.  Like your first job in a fast food place you
did it, you learned something and you moved on to bigger and better.  It is okay
to walk away.  I admit that it is scary, but many of us have done it. 
    Over the next few post I will try to aid you in mapping out your life free
of Ebay.  We will look at newer site.  Discuss the pros and cons and maybe when it
is over you will have a website of your own.
    The next few Blog post will be about other marketplaces such as Amazon, Ebid and Ecrater.  There are more, but that is a sample list.  We talk about most of them and of those I do not mention I am sure that someone out there will tell me about it.