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by howdydoo 1666 days ago
I'll add to the chorus. Something like this happened to me recently.

I bought a heating element for my dishwasher on eBay. I received a non-genuine part, took photos, and requested a return. Next thing I know my 15-year-old account is banned. Maybe the seller reported me in retaliation? eBay's "support" AI sure isn't interested in telling me what happened.

I hate this world we've created, where you can get banned from services at random with no recourse and locked out for life by an AI. The same thing happened to my Discord account a few months ago too :(

It almost makes me want to start a meme Twitter account and build up a big follower count. That's apparently the only way to reach a human in customer support at a big tech company these days.

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  >It almost makes me want to start a meme Twitter account and build up a big follower count. That's apparently the only way to reach a human in customer support at a big tech company these days...
Until your Twitter account gets randomly banned for no good reason.