fleabay, they take revenge on your kids.

[modok]

shocking headline? True story.
Grandma sells handbags on fleabay, for prices that are too low.

fleabay computer detects suspicious activity

Her, AND her kids fleabay and playpal accounts get LOCKED.


Rantings of an angry man? yes and no

This same kind of story has been happening for years.

fleabay does not have time to actually investigate, they just "suspect" if stuff is hot or fake, and act on it automatically.

And they have a problem with people making multiple accounts, but they don't have time to actually investigate, they just keep a secret list of members they suspect are related, and shut them all down if anything seems suspicious.

But it turns out many people's accounts are related, because they are RELATED.

It's the fleebay ANTI FAMILY policy.

And I just want you to know about it, because they sure don't tell you, that if your friends or family screw up thier account, it can screw up yours too.

Many of you, like me, have probably used the platform for many years trading oddball collectable antique stuff, without a single problem whatsoever, but it could happen to YOU.

[67_13Deluxe]

Thanks for the warning. I avoid doing business there if I can. Sometimes I have to though.

[outcaststudios]

its also f-ed up that they own paypal and can help themselves to your money if they decide to. imagine being able to just go into a customers bank account and take money you feel youre owed. then they act like'oh we cant do anything about paypal!' haha i loathe ebay!
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'88Doka
'69 westy
(rip)couple bugs
(rip)three type III"s
(rip) '81 vanagon
a bunch of french stuff,and 9 motorcycles.

[modok]

Well, I slightly sympathize with them because they don't have the time and resources to investigate each case.

fleabay and playpal and g-mail are all watching you, and share info.
Best way to prevent it is ONLY log onto the sites from your own computer, and not let anybody else use your computer for that either, because they track you with cookies.

There is no official rule about it, but that's how they are doing it.

I love ebay and I'm not going to stop, but....could have avoided much suffering I had known about the secret rules. I think the solution is to tell everybody, then the rules won't be secret.

In the past I have logged on, say, at work, and logged out again.
And for weeks after I see what my co-workers are looking at in my "recently viewed" list.
Or I let my buddy log on on my computer, then my recently viewed list is full of tow trucks and towing accessories.
It's alarmingly simple. As elon musk says....not yet the age of artificial intelegence, this is the age of stupid algorithms

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