I Have Had It With Ebay - What Now?

to be honest there aren't allot of other options that has the audience ebay offers to sellers of normal run of the mill items. Heritage and Teletrade is good if its high end stuff but their fees are worse than ebay and wouldn't do well for just everyday items that should go to places like ebay. There are plenty of online auctions for coins like ebay that have less fees or no fees at all but the audience is a small small percentage of what you would get on ebay (and I mean probably less than 2% of the ebay audience you can reach)

There's Amazon, but they aren't perfect either.

Ebay/ paypal treats sellers like crap, google checkout might take on paypal.but ebay is suing them to shut it down.

Scubu -

I understand why they would want to prevent duplicate accounts. It makes sense. However, this is not the case here. Both accounts under my personal information as well as my business are legitimate, and are separate for legitimate reasons, i.e. I want to keep business and personal finances separate. And yes, people do have roommates. It is quite childish of you to put the word in quotation marks like some kind of veiled insinuation. I posted this topic in order to get suggestions on alternatives to ebay's hegemony, not to be insulted by other members.

Have a nice day.

Scubu, you exceed the bounds of propriety and it isn't making you any friends around here.

Aboarman, your multiple accounts are not the problem. The fact that you're using all of them to sell the same product is a problem. Especially when you contend that your multiple accounts are to separate business from personal use - why are you selling your commercial product from your personal account? And why is your roommate selling your product?

Viewed impartially, that sure looks on the surface like rule evasion. The solution, once you've jumped through the hoops that you've (accidentally or not) created for yourself, is to limit the selling of that product to one account. Assuming the business associate's account is at another address, you can probably use it as well, but at this point I'd clear it with ebay.

Yeah, at this rate, in a year or two they'll be charging the same percentage as any of the major auction houses already do.

My final words on this. The 2nd account for business is brand new. I had listings on my personal account that were GTC 30 day listings that I already paid for, and decided to let them run out on their own. My plan is/was to gradually migrate business listings over to the new account. The new account also had selling limits, remember. My roommate does not sell my product or anything even closely resembling coins. He just sells odds and ends occasionally like 95% of people, and is not a "pro" seller - I think he's sold maybe 10 items in 3 years.
Scubu, I don't understand your hostility. Are you working for ebay? And before you go spouting off again, I would advise you to read carefully. I said in my previous posting that I understand why the do not want duplicate accounts, which they do not. What they love are multiple accounts that sell a variety of items. I really hope that you are not representative of the type of people on this forum. If so, I will be closing my account.
To everyone else, thank you for the suggestions. I will certainly keep looking. In the meantime, I've sent everything required by ebay and expect I'll be back in business shortly. I've decided to close the separate account I set up for business to avoid any more hassle, and will manage the books on my end.

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Really? And here I thought I was done speaking about this.
OK, I mis-spoke, mis-typed, whatever you want to call it. To clarify, then, we all (meaning my 2 seller accounts and people I sell wholesale to) were selling the product.
Anyhow, I sent the fax to ebay and all is well. Lost 3 days of business and had to re-post, but I'm using the opportunity to try out the store option, which they've agreed to not charge me for 6 months. I still am unsure of the exact reasoning behind the suspensions. We'll see how things go.

I really was hoping that joining "Coin Community Forum" would be a positive experience, where I would find people interested in numismatics, enjoy buying and selling, and want to exchange knowledge. Instead, I have found people who are vindictive, petty, and tiresome.
How does anyone benefit from posts like the ones left by Whytlash, Scubu, and countless others I have seen throughout these forums?
This is the first time I've ever bothered joining a forum - I just never saw the need for it. After this experience, it will most likely be the last. I certainly don't need this.

Obviously, you are speaking from ignorance. You joined how long ago? Please, give the CCF a chance and keep an open mind. This is one of the most friendly forums with some of the most grateful and honest people you will ever know.
aboarman, put this behind you and move on. I can promise you, it only gets better here
ebay has saddened me too since 1997, the year I joined. I have had my trials and tribulations with them as well as dishonest and unscrupulous sellers. I was about to give up! I was so upset
Please stick around. We would love to have you