An epic example of ebaY sleazery! Highly doubtful ebaY tactics here are legal, (but when has that ever stopped them?)

EBAY SHUTS ME DOWN AFTER 12+ YEARS OF 100% FEEDBACK

Jun 20, 2013 11:34 AM

First my PayPal account gets limited while I'm listing auctions and after listing 3 for the day, I get a red letterbox message Stating that my PayPal account is no longer verified and cannot be used to accept payments. I call PayPal and they say that my sons PayPal account has been linked to my PayPal account because we have the same first and last name (different middle initials) and my sons account has a $94,000.00 balance due against it for charge-backs taking place in Feb. & Mar. of 2013 !!! PayPal tells me that If I bring his account current then my limiting will be removed.

OH SURE.....CAN I USE MY VISA CARD????

Now my son has been a PayPal member for 14 years and myself for over 12 years and they just now decide to link our two accounts??? I call eBay at this point and explain to them that I have 17 auctions currently in progress with several ending within 17 hours and my PayPal account has been limited and I can't receive payments when my buyers go to pay. eBay customer service rep says WOW, what a bummer. Well you need to assign an alternate method of payment for all your current auctions until the PayPal problem is resolved. So after learning how to change my billing method I attain a ProPay account and begin to link it with my eBay auctions and before I make it to my second auction, all my auctions get removed by eBay. I call eBay back again and they tell me that my account is associated with another account in poor standing and until I get both my accounts clear and current, I can't list on eBay.

I DON'T HAVE TWO ACCOUNTS......

After doing 12 years of business with eBay and have sold more than $450,000 worth of items on their site (of which they get a size-able percent) they all of a sudden decide now to link my sons account with my account??? They claim that the similarities between the accounts are suspicious. We have the same name, we live on the same street. Well, family frequently does !!! We have different SS #'s, different birthdays and 12 years of perfect performance history with eBay prior to this glitch they have found.

Why should I be punished by eBay & PayPal for something another member has going on ????

I'm retired and depend on my eBay income as a supplemental income for some small extra's in my life that I can not afford without my eBay income each year.

Now I have to sit dormant until all this garbage gets resolved.