I've never seen it written anywhere but when i first joined ebay back in about 2001 or so, I remember being under the impression there was a 3 strikes and you're out policy too.
I don't know if there actually was, but I do recall buying a couple of times from people who had all good feedback and not getting my item & waiting, sending queries etc & by the time I lost my temper & decided to give neg feedback, others had been before me and the person had been deregistered.
I've no idea what the official policy in ebay was back then but for sure, people seemed to get kicked off after half a dozen or so infringements in a very short time, whereas that doesn't seem to be the case so much now.
Mind you, I am talking about sellers here.
Back then, it was perfectly easy for a seller to just keep the money and not post an item and all a buyer could do really was give them a neg, which was not satisfactory as they could not get money back. Maybe ebay had to be more on the ball in those circumstances.
