My item was cancelled because eBay said it was a counterfeit. eBay encouraged me to contact the company directly by emailing them.
I feel an obligation to share with you what else eBay has encouraged me and so many others to do. If you think eBay is taking action per your request to stop items listed in violation of your intellectual property rights, you should know that they are. They got my account, and I am sure many more. But did you know eBay is actually giving incentives to hundreds of thousands of their own customers like me to resell the very items you are requesting them to remove? How can this be?
If you have a PayPal account, you might remember getting an email on Thursday, 10/22/09. If not, you can ask eBay about the email sent to every PayPal (an eBay company) member, enticing us with a free $20 cashback for purchasing items for resale on eBay. This offer was for very specific "overseas" companies. The offer applied only to purchases at one of the following merchants: Graniph, FocalPrice, Milanoo, Dhgate, BestOfferBuy.com, MyCatwalk, Wiggle Time and Sasa, all well known for their fake, counterfeit and pirated products.
I am a sucker for a free $20, so I used PayPal to buy a few things. I received the items, followed by eBay's promised $20 cashback! This made me $20! Awesome. So I used eBay to sell one of the items, so eBay is doing really well with this! And so did I, until eBay cancelled my account for violating their VERO policy.
Now, I am no legal expert, but I know when something is morally wrong, and this is really a no-no on eBay's part. Everyone makes mistakes, but I think eBay is purposely doing the wrong thing here. What do you think? I would never have bought something from overseas without PayPal giving me $20, and when the premise of the sites is to resell for profit on eBay, it should be OK since it was recommended by PayPal.
I would not want to be eBay when this information is given to a federal court to decide. Everyone is being hurt, except eBay! I would love to bring all this evidence to court, as well as offer my testimony and help any VERO sue these crooks!
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