I Have Had It With Ebay - What Now?

ebay is a joke, we all know that..well, what it's become is a joke.
Really, what else is there that draws such an audience?

Hmmm, the whole thing sounds a bit odd but, did anyone else notice this:




Then...




***Conflict Alert!!***

aboarman,

The only thing scubu and Whytlash are guilty of is being brutally honest. You also aren't the only one who has been with ebay for over 10 years and knows how the rules and systems work...or should work.

Personally I enjoy a forum with frankness without sugarcoating everything. And scubu was right....you got caught breaking the rules and you want someone to be sympathetic to your cause.

Stick around. We are a great bunch to get to know. I'm sorry that your first encounter with us is not up to your expectations but please try to see this thread from a fresh perspective.

Thanks, but I don't see the point of going online and being subjected to accusations and getting myself worked up over the comments of people I don't even know. I believe one person in the entire thread (SuperDave) actually provided info that may explain the ebay problem. I still think their handling of it was horrible.
I really wasn't trying to do anything shady here or on ebay, but I've been all but accused of being a criminal, and I just would rather not bother with anyone else pointing a finger. Also, I have not accused Whytlash and Scubu of anything, so there is no guilt to assign. I simply asked, perhaps rhetorically, how that type of post is beneficial. You may enjoy this kind of banter, but it's just not my thing - sorry. This is about as brutally honest as I'm willing to go.

Haah..
Get to know some of the guys and gals here. I promise you, you will have such a good time
BTW, please share some of your collection with us. We would love to see it! What do you collect?

You're right on both counts.

Given your long selling history, ebay obviously didn't do their due diligence to ensure you weren't a hacked account (it's a real problem for them), and lumped you in with the trolls. Stop your sales momentarily, yes, but give you a little due process.




What you haven't learned yet, not having been exposed to the broad cross-section of humanity pretty much unique to online forums, is the huge variance range of what well-intentioned people consider "appropriate" verbiage. We're all wired differently - we choose differing modes of expression - and many choose language which others find offensive. It isn't, to them. I'll tell you frankly, some of the language in this thread has skirted the edge of what we're willing to tolerate at Coin Community. The important point to that is we still consider it tolerable, and we hold to a very, very strict standard of comportment by comparison to most other online forums. There are other, competing fora which would have flat-out dogpiled you for this thread.

In order to be a happy and successful participant in online discourse, you must realize that your standards are not those of others, and somewhat harden yourself against language you'd consider inappropriate. We didn't make that rule. It's just how it is.

Another consideration is the sensitivity required of us to those who practice business with looser morals. Numismatics is rife with the potential for fraud, and people more than willing to go there. We must at all times remain hypersensitive to protecting our members; finding and nuking a person who joined for the specific purpose of taking people's money is not an uncommon occurrence here. Obviously, that's not you, but our membership understands the possibility as well as we do, and there are times when overreactions happen as a result. The best trolls move fast, shift direction from "good" to "bad" very quickly, make their strike and are gone in hours.

In all honesty, my first reaction to this thread was that you were just here to subtly spam us with links to your ebay storefront. That has turned out not to be the case; to your credit, even though you're selling something of potential interest to us as coin collectors, you have not once mentioned anything specific about the product or your business. But this is what happens in the real world, and our job is to be paranoid about it.

I am glad that you have decided to stick around.

to the Community!

aboarman, out of curiosity, why did ebay make you change your user ID as part of solving this.