[wmij]

This just recently happened to me with an old eBay account I've had 20+ years. After reading the story in the document above, you could easily search/replace Apple for eBay and it's identical to my story, aside from emailing the CEO. The reason given in the permanent suspension message to me was a vague reference to the TOC docs and links to support that all lead to dead ends. After, resigning myself to not caring further, because I use eBay these days rarely, the next day my account was just as suddenly and without reason reinstated, as if nothing ever happened.

I'm left scratching my head as to what the reason(s) were for this to have happened and can only think of 3 possibilities.

- An overzealous, newbie type operator that suspended me by mistake - Some kind of error in automated flagging and error in review - eBay's radical way of engaging with me to spur me to buy/sell again as the account's last activity was more than 1 year ago

[rufusroflpunch]

A couple of years ago, I signed up for an eBay account to buy one thing with Buy It Now. After buying it, my account was promptly suspended for no reason. I contacted support and they told me they don’t know why and wouldn’t reinstate it.