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> I have some extra electronics around my house that I’d like to sell so I signed up for an eBay account. In one hour I posted 6 listings totaling less than 500

> I have some extra electronics around my house that I’d like to sell so I signed up for an eBay account. In one hour I posted 6 listings totaling less than 500GBP Depending on the price of the items and how many, this is exactly what it looks like when someone opens an account to sell stolen electronics.

joshcryer 5y ago
I sold my RX 580 for $400 (which I got for $120) during peak hysteria. eBay locked my account. I went through the process of explaining to support that I was selling it because gfx card prices were so high.
Nextgrid 5y ago
If they suspect stolen items they can suspend the account and require proof of purchase or extra ID verification (to make it as inconvenient and/or risky for a criminal) instead of just banning it forever with no explanation.
- tomatowurst 5y ago
  Probably not with the scale of frauds they receive. The fastest method is to auto-ban and analyze. Ebay did the right thing here, unfortunately, its popular amongst carders.
- layer8 5y ago
  The latter is probably much more cost-effective.
- numpad0 5y ago
  ID could be faked or stolen credit cards can be used. In fact, dropshipping(ordering items on the fly, automatically, from a backend webstore - e.g. Amazon, Aliexpress, taobao) on stolen credit cards, or even pretending to do that without shipping part, is so prevalent there's a DEF CON talk[1] on that topic. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU
mdoms 5y ago
Coincidentally it's exact what it looks like when someone opens an account to sell non-stolen electronics.
cpncrunch 5y ago
Yes, I was banned for something similar. I signed up to ebay and put a US$800 bid on an item, and got banned shortly afterwards. Weird. But I did get them to reinstate my account by using the online chat. When I sent an email request they said the ban was permanent and they couldn't do anything, but the online chat support person put me through to a "specialized team", who then reverted the ban. I think the issue is just that their fraud detection is a bit ridiculous. If you want to buy used avionics, pretty much the only place you can do that is ebay, and everything is $500-1000 or thereabouts. I had never used ebay in the past 20 years, but if I want to fix my plane I'm kinda forced into it.
spacexsucks 5y ago
Dumbest fuvking reason. Keep legit sellers away

joshcryer 5y ago

I sold my RX 580 for $400 (which I got for $120) during peak hysteria. eBay locked my account. I went through the process of explaining to support that I was selling it because gfx card prices were so high.

Nextgrid 5y ago

If they suspect stolen items they can suspend the account and require proof of purchase or extra ID verification (to make it as inconvenient and/or risky for a criminal) instead of just banning it forever with no explanation.

tomatowurst 5y ago
Probably not with the scale of frauds they receive. The fastest method is to auto-ban and analyze. Ebay did the right thing here, unfortunately, its popular amongst carders.
layer8 5y ago
The latter is probably much more cost-effective.
numpad0 5y ago
ID could be faked or stolen credit cards can be used. In fact, dropshipping(ordering items on the fly, automatically, from a backend webstore - e.g. Amazon, Aliexpress, taobao) on stolen credit cards, or even pretending to do that without shipping part, is so prevalent there's a DEF CON talk[1] on that topic. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU

mdoms 5y ago

Coincidentally it's exact what it looks like when someone opens an account to sell non-stolen electronics.

cpncrunch 5y ago

Yes, I was banned for something similar. I signed up to ebay and put a US$800 bid on an item, and got banned shortly afterwards. Weird. But I did get them to reinstate my account by using the online chat. When I sent an email request they said the ban was permanent and they couldn't do anything, but the online chat support person put me through to a "specialized team", who then reverted the ban. I think the issue is just that their fraud detection is a bit ridiculous. If you want to buy used avionics, pretty much the only place you can do that is ebay, and everything is $500-1000 or thereabouts. I had never used ebay in the past 20 years, but if I want to fix my plane I'm kinda forced into it.

spacexsucks 5y ago

Dumbest fuvking reason. Keep legit sellers away