Ebay Suspended, Getting Back To Business

Ebay Suspended, Getting Back To Business

If you are reading this then you have most likely been suspended by Ebay. If you are a few days into your suspension then I do not know if you are ready to hear any of what you are going to be told. If you are a month or more into what will most likely be a life time suspension then I think you are now ready to think about the future.
  


 You had a business. You were making money and beginning to plan for the future then the suspension hit you and it was ten times worst than being fired, because usually when one is fired they feel that the axe is coming. Ebay does it like an assassin. You never know it is coming until you are face down in the dirt.

You can either lay there or you can get up and take the lessons that you learned along the way to your own website or other online marketplaces. If you want to know about many of the other online marketplaces you can read old post at this blog or you could purchase my book. The link is the picture along the side of the post.

Here is a former ebay seller who has some important information for you how ebay looks at its sellers.

    

 Next I would like to ask you once again to look into building your own website. There are hundreds of thousands of people who run their own websites for fun and profit. It is not that difficult. You can do it. You maybe thinking that you did not prepare for this and you do not even have a list of former customers to contact. Sure you do, if you still have a live paypal account. Every email of every one who purchased from you in the past is recorded there. Download a full copy of those emails and send each and every customer a message telling them about your new website and what you have to offer.

You can take paypal payments and or use a shopping cart service to process payments. This is something that you can learn how to do in an afternoon. The great thing about most shopping cart services is that over the long term they cost you less than paypal and your money is safer with them. Paypal can freeze your funds for up to 180 days, these services understand that your money is your money.

 

Remember that being suspended by ebay or restricted by ebay does not have to be a death sentence unless you allow it to be. A ebay suspension can be the greatest opportunity of your business lifetime if you take advantage of it. Thank you for visiting and please take a moment to share this post with a friends and to add me to your google plus.
 
  

Your Ebay Recovery Plans

Your Ebay Recovery Plans

I can give you a map on how to continued working and selling online. Their are hundreds of former sellers with different ideas of what you should do next, but in the back of your mind you must already have your own idea.

If it is to stealth your way back onto Ebay or to plead your way back into their good graces then I am not the one to aid you in that quest. I have been there and done that. Even when it does work it feels kind of degrading.

We are business people and we are forced by a company that we generate income for to ask permission to do just that?

Recovery is just that. You are trying to recovery from something that happened to you. Who recovers from a bad relationship by changing their name and face and getting involved with the same person again. Sooner or later the result will be the same.

We are here to talk about business. You are not a business person until you are in control of your business. How the business runs and how fast it grows. As long as you work at Ebay or even Amazon you are limited in that quest. You will always work for them instead of being in a relationship where you are at least equal partners.

What I am going to suggest again is that you take your online business on the road. You post your items for sale at other sites that would love to have you as a partner. You learn from these experiences and build your own website as a home base for all the things that you wish to market. The luckiest sellers to have been suspended by ebay or restricted by ebay were those sellers who had their own websites to fall back on. Those websites kept the cash flowing while they figured out the next moves. The next moves usually involved setting up shop at other sites and using their existing connections.

What are existing connections? Access to names and email addresses that we already have. That is going to be a future post. To conclude this post I would like to suggest that you go out and look at the new online marketplaces that are competing with ebay. Ebid is one such site. There is a banner link below for you.

If you want a walk through list of the best sites along with the basic information that you need to set up shop at many of these sites I have written a little book that you can find at iTunes, Barnes and Noble and Amazon for the low price of 1.99. The price is so low because I needed this kind of advice when I first left Ebay behind and every dollar was dear to me. The title of the book is Powerselling After Ebay.

Good luck with your online business and please take a moment to share this post with a friend.

My Ebay Recovery Book

My Ebay Recovery Book

I started this blog almost a year ago to help those who had found themselves in the same situation that I had a few years ago.

I had been suspended by Ebay.

I had watched a thriving online business go from a few thousand dollars a month in income down to next to nothing. I had to scramble to recover. I had to deal with telling my family that times were going to be hard for a while. I promised them at the time that I would find a way to make it all right again.

My first move was to sneak back on Ebay. Why not? It was all that I knew. I went the ebay stealth route for a few months. Then I got caught again and lost all the effort I had put in. The difference is that during that second time spent working at Ebay I treated it as something that I could not depend upon. I worked on building up my presence at other sites. I began to move my business away from being dependant upon Ebay and even its pay system Paypal. So when the second Ebay Suspension came because they found out that I was still me, (what was I thinking) I was now making as much money off site as I was at Ebay. I was making more money from using other payment methods like Google checkout that I was at Paypal. Keep in mind that for many a Ebay suspension or an Ebay resctriction can result in a Paypal restricted accout or a paypal suspension so you need to plan for this as well.

This takes me to the topic of the day. While writing this Blog I have been working on an Ebook to help those who want to start over. A lot of the information in the book is on this blog. A lot of the information is more focused and in greater detail. I am not going to sell it for 29.99 on clickbank. That is a crazy amount of money for information that is available to those willing to do the research and put in the hours of hands on work. I did this for four years. I learned through trial and error how to earn a living without Ebay. I am talking a few thousand dollars a month. You could make six figures as an online seller, but the trade off in time away from my family, I have a small child, is too much at the moment for me to undertake.

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The basic information in this book will help you to build a business that will enable you to earn what you wish to earn as an online seller. There are enough sites out there with enough traffic to replace Ebay as the source of income for your family. My little ebook will give you the basics about those sites and what you need to do to make money there. The price of the book is 1.99. I got yelled at by members of my family for not charging more. I am not trying to get rich off of this book. If I charged more I could make more, but there are so many former sellers out there who need help without getting robbed or without being sold a bill of good about how easy it is to get back on Ebay. My response to those guys who write the stealth books is yeah it can be done, but why would you want to go crawling back to a job at a business that does not want you. When I became an adult I realized that it came with responsibilities and choices. After being suspended by Ebay I chose to crawl back for a while until I was strong enough to walk away on my own terms. The price of my book is set so that people who really need it can afford it. I see a day when those who happily sell on Ebay will be buying this books as a prep course for the day that they will be able to walk away from Ebay without worrying what they are going to do to support their families.

This has been my shameless plug for my book. After you buy it, please review it and tell others about how helpful it has been to you. To check it out and to read a few sample chapters click on the click here caption beneath the image of my book cover. You can now also find the book at Amazon, iTunes and Barnes and Noble.

Thank you for visiting. Have a nice day.

After The Ebay Suspension

    I have read your comment a few times. I understand the situation that you find yourself in. Many former ebay sellers have gone through something similar.

    First I do not work at ebay. I am a former Powerseller. There are thousands of us out here. I am one of the few who decided to offer aid and comfort to those who  face the restrictions and suspensions that ebay seems to dole out for reasons that become harder and harder to understand.

    I am going to try to offer you both aid and comfort. First things first. You are not dead, you are just badly wounded. If your paypal had been suspended as well you would be facing a greater challenge.
    Here are the steps I recommend before contacting Ebay again. (At the end of this I will offer phone numbers for customer service at ebay. )

1. Just incase all fails and you are not allowed as a seller at Ebay you need to set up shop at as many other market places as possible. Start with Amazon. You need to start there first because once you become a seller there you will need two weeks from your first sell to request a payout.

    Next I would sign up with Etsy and Bonanza. Selling on Bonanza is largely about networking and getting to know others who conduct business there. Next you will need to sign up with Webstore, Craigslist, Ecrater and Yardsellr.  Also you should sign up with Ebids. They are a promising new auction site. The traffic at none of these sites except Amazon can match ebay, but the combined traffic can help a seller survive while he or she seeks to grow business at their own website.

    Most sellers do no realize that they left ebay with a list of possible customers in hand. This list is the emails addresses of all your past customers stored at Paypal. If they have done business with you before they are likely to do business with you again. If you have something similar to what they purchased before contact them and make them a offer. You do not even need a store front to do this. If or when you have a deal you can send them an invoice using paypal tools and or google checkout.

    It will not be easy to overcome an ebay suspension or restriction, but it can be done. Too many believe that they are married to ebay. That they are the only place to work. Getting past this is the beginning of the path to financial freedom.

    Okay for those of you who wish to plead with ebay here are two customer service numbers that have gotten some results. Call between 9 - 6 during week days for best results.

866-540-3229 press# then enter zipcode, then press 0.  This is a number where you may actually reach someone who may call you back. 
Second number is 866-643-1607.   You may get a real person to talk to.

    Understand when Ebay restricts you as a seller, but keeps you as a buyer, they are doing what amazon has done for years. They are willing to take your money, but not willing to help you earn a living. When I first got suspended by ebay I tried to get that suspension lifted. Nothing I tried worked. Then I tried to go back on the site under different names and addresses. That only held up for a while. In the end the thing that has gotten me through the last five years is to do it myself. Selling at other online marketplaces while building my own. It has worked for thousands of us. It can work for each and everyone of you. I make more money now selling at ten different sites than I ever did at Ebay and the fees are far less. Not to mention if a suspension ever comes your way at any of them so what you have over a half dozen to fall back on and you have your own website as well.

    I know that running your own website sounds like sci-fi but it is not that difficult I have designed a page that can show you how to build your own wordpress site in about an hour. You can click here to visit it.


    Okay that is it for today. It has been such a while since I was suspended by Ebay that I forgot how it felt at the time. I thought the world was ending. Now I realize that a whole new world of possibilities were being revealed to me. Freedom is a scary thing, but never a bad thing. Freedom is the morning and the bread and the risen son. Freedom in what ever form or shape it takes is gods gift to everyone. Freedom forces us to make hard choices, but in the end they are always our choices and that can not be underestimated.

    Good luck and please keep in mind that hard work is its own reward and what you face now has been faced and overcome by others who have come before you.