Ebay blocks my account and refuses to respond

[comcol]

It has been nearly 4 weeks since Ebay removed all my auctions and gave literally no reason.

After numerous calls and emails I was informed that my account selling was blocked due to my account being hacked by someone 13 years ago!!!!.(which I don't ever recall happening). I kid you not. This is their reasoning.

Why should that mean I can't sell? No idea. They won't give a response other than to say they have sent a request through to another 'department' to do something.

Meanwhile, they still charge me fees...lol

[chameleon54]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Chameleon, you are a breath of fresh air, and were I selling on eBay I would seek to have a similar approach.

I hope, too, that the terrible bushfires over so much of Australia aren't affecting you and yours, as well as your plan B.

I hope the same for all of the excellent people on these boards.

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Thanks for your kind words Countess..... we are getting a similar smoke haze to that of Sydney, but that is only a very minor inconvenience. The Cudlee Creek fire near Adelaide is far enough away not to be an immediate danger, but I have still been monitoring it and sticking close to home in case it really takes off. 

It is the remote farm that is more of a worry so far this year. It is far enough away from everything that it rarely gets any media attention, but one of the large fires a couple of weeks ago that was on the national media came within 10 km. of the farm. We spent much of the day monitoring it on the internet, but could not travel up there as the Cudlee Creek fires where a risk to our hills properties. It actually burnt out my first teenage sweethearts family farm. I had to drive through the smouldering tree stumps on the way to my property a couple of weeks ago. 

I was speaking to a neighbour on the weekend and apparently there was another fire only 3 km. from my place started by a dry lightning storm. I didn't even know it had flared up but a couple of neighbours had gone to my place and checked out how to move my stock to safety if it came any closer. 

There are unsung heroes all over the country at the moment, doing stuff like this for their friends and neighbours. It doesn't make the media and often very few people even know about it, but the fires are bringing out the best in people. It seems like a shallow cliche, but people are really coming together to help each other at the moment..

[chameleon54]

The thing that is really stressing me at the moment is the actions I will have to take to protect the livestock on my hills property. If a fire comes through there it is going to consume everything in its path. I have a containment area set up around my sheep yards and will move the stock there in the event of fire .....BUT there is too much dry vegitation in the padocks to stop a fire and the radient heat with my ute based fire unit.

The only way to ensure their safety & and mine is to light a back burn, just before the fire gets to me. I will be striking the match that burns my place out. Its not the done thing in peri urban areas, but quite common in remote areas where there are very few fire appliances and people have to fight fires by themselves.  It is the only real chance I have of saving my stock and I have the matches and rake in the ute ready if needed. Definatey a last resort when the fire is 500 metres away. .

[twyngwyn]

This is from 2011, but might there be any similarities with your issue?

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl?/pl/2011/11/1320417962.html

[x3n0m]

It is more the large financial institutions, hedge funds and international banks who are pulling the strings.

Yes of course it is but those (large financial institutions, hedge funds and international banks) disruptive-innovation/monopoly-practices ruthless-scum sit on the board at ebay and virtually every other stock market listed company on the planet  .. we are totally **bleep**ed because of those vermin ..

I will keep this brief as don't want to overwhelm people with details of just how disadvantaged Australians are by their constant rorting and tax dodging activities .. We are in danger of falling into fascism now if not already there ..

I hope you have enough water for your plan B chameleon because corporate water theft enabled by the government is a thing in this country .. and don't forget 90% of Australian abattoirs are now owned and run by International Tax Dodgers (just look at what happened to the milk industry too) .. the days for you to make hay while the sun shines on your plan B may be baited and switch away at the flick of a pen by some shiny assed exploiter in Canberra at any moment, the future looks bleak every which way the politicians want to spin it you cannot polish a lump of **bleep** ..

As for playing the stock market that is basically gambling .. I have nothing against it so long as good money is not thrown after bad .. in a game of chance (gambling) there is always going to be winners and losers .. I do not want to have to resort to things like that to put bread on my table .. I am sick of the dog eat dog mentality that is becoming normalised .. the days of people working together to achieve a good/altruistic outcome are gone ..

Signing in and out on these boards is a cluster **bleep** so will bid you farewell .. this is not worth my time ..

[chameleon54]

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@x3n0m wrote:

It is more the large financial institutions, hedge funds and international banks who are pulling the strings.

Yes of course it is but those (large financial institutions, hedge funds and international banks) disruptive-innovation/monopoly-practices ruthless-scum sit on the board at ebay and virtually every other stock market listed company on the planet  .. we are totally **bleep**ed because I will keep this brief as don't want to overwhelm people with details of just how disadvantaged Australians are by their constant rorting and tax dodging activities .

The rorting & tax dodging by international conglomerates is a major problem

. We are in danger of falling into fascism now if not already there ..

I hope you have enough water for your plan B chameleon because corporate water theft enabled by the government is a thing in this country .

Again you are correct. Water theft is a huge problem, particularly in N.S.W & Qld on the Murray Darling river system, but it is also occuring with underground water in the great artisian basin. My property near Adelaide is in very high rainfall country and relies on what falls from the sky. It is also the headwaters for springs which feed a nearby large towns water supply, so is at the top of the chain and not reliant on anyone else further upstream ( I,m the guy further upstream   ). All part of why I selected the particular property in the first place.

. and don't forget 90% of Australian abattoirs are now owned and run by International Tax Dodgers (just look at what happened to the milk industry too) .

At this stage most of the Australian abattoirs are Australian owned with the largest one in Australia being built at Murray Bridge, by a proudly South Australian family, but yes that could all change very quickly.

. the days for you to make hay while the sun shines on your plan B may be baited and switch away at the flick of a pen by some shiny assed exploiter in Canberra at any moment, the future looks bleak every which way the politicians want to spin it you cannot polish a lump of **bleep** ..

As for playing the stock market that is basically gambling

The scheme I had going, while having inherant risks was more based on combining and understanding mathematics and human nature rather than the straight out betting on which way stocks would go. It was an anomoly thrown up by the crisis that is not usually present in the market, so the normal rules of established share trading did not apply. It worked for six months and then the anomoly dissapeared from the market as expected.

The facet I was trading was heavily loaded in favor of the investor, reducing the " game of chance " factor. Of the 17 trades I made using the scheme only one left me initially behind for two weeks, after which time I was still able to get out with a very small profit. The other 16 trades returned profits ranging from $1000 - $7500 each ( most at the higher end ) on a $15,000 investment. With that record it wasnt really a game of chance.

I must admit I was still trading conventionally on gold stock companies with strong balance sheets that where regularly cycling in a tight 15% band. In times of crisis solid, reliable gold stocks tend to generally rise rather than crash, making them a safer bet .

.. I have nothing against it so long as good money is not thrown after bad .. in a game of chance (gambling) there is always going to be winners and losers .. I do not want to have to resort to things like that to put bread on my table .. I am sick of the dog eat dog mentality that is becoming normalised .. the days of people working together to achieve a good/altruistic outcome are gone ..

They are certainly rarer, but the national fires are bringing out the best in communities. 

Signing in and out on these boards is a cluster **bleep** so will bid you farewell .. this is not worth my time ..

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[x3n0m]

still logged in so .. .. you sound like a smart person Chameleon who is well endowed to cope with all manner of rapid fluctuations in manipulated markets .. no doubt you will also find a way to profit from global thermo nuclear war too .. some would welcome the easy money .. others wouldn't if you folow my drift .. anyway we all have to do whatever we can to protect our families but when is enough money enough? or will it ever be enough? my point being if one must suffer so another can profit it is for a want of a better word .. grubby and will always lead to mass poverty and enevitably to open hostility .. but I guess sharing is a dirty word in the world of neo capitalism etc etc ..

At this stage most of the Australian abattoirs are Australian owned with the largest one in Australia being built at Murray Bridge, by a proudly South Australian family, but yes that could all change very quickly.

I am not going to debate every point (I was talking about the largest exporting abattoirs in the country being owned by International tax rorters not the small ones with less than 50 employees, China based operations are buying them up at a rapid rate now ..)

They are certainly rarer, but the national fires are bringing out the best in communities. 

.. as for the political response the recent bush-fires crisis due to all the warnings politicians received from fire chiefs over the last 6 months our politicians should have had fire retardant aerial bombers on stand-by to stamp these blazes out before they took hold .. that inaction by our political overlords should be seen as a form of arson. You may as well call it a manufactured crisis and a form of complicity .. remember Nero fiddled while Rome burned? .. the bigger picture is that in years to come Australian land owners who are in bush-fire mining/fracking zones will be forced from their land by military/police ..

[countessalmirena]

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@x3n0m wrote:

still logged in so .. .. you sound like a smart person Chameleon who is well endowed to cope with all manner of rapid fluctuations in manipulated markets .. no doubt you will also find a way to profit from global thermo nuclear war too .. some would welcome the easy money .. ...]

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That's out of order. You've no smidgeon of a right to cast that sort of aspersion on Chameleon, who - to the best of my knowledge - is a decent and hard-working bloke NOT living the high life relaxing in a spa filled with champagne. Ability to survive does not equate to being a smarmy nuclear arms dealer.

I'm calling on you to apologise for that, and keep such unmerited comments out of the debate.

I'm truly sorry to hear about comcol's even worse situation.

[x3n0m]

Countess wants an apolgy .. stamp your feet and the world will go back to how you want it? ,, 'tis not the answer to this dire predicanment ,,

so my thoughts on this apology: .. well gambling on the stockmarket is not the answer to the corporate rape of our business landscape .. Chameleon has some very valid points though and that is a plan B and a plan C to the ebay plan A and am sure in time that plan B will be quite wise .. you maybe will need to diversify away from sheep once the cartel like behaviour of the inevitable exploiter middlemen takes the wind from the sails of that industry too Chameleon but you as a landowner should be able to manage that .. but yes Chameleon always wise to make hay while the sun shines especially in this bleak economy .. I am more invested in health than money though ...

I just wonder how long before they rip the rug out and turn the tables on the farmers who are currently getting good demand and prices for livestock products due to the freetrade agreements which have virtually decimated every other industry in this country aside from mining, agriculture, tourism and the international student rort .. it seems inevitable considering everything else that is going on .. as we now have all these free trade agreements the vagaries of the international markets send shockwaves through our markets and industry on a regular basis ..

as I also have a finger on the pulse at ebay and whilst Chameleons business is apparently growing most small sellers on ebay are seeing stagflation or minimal interest and rapidly diminishing sales etc so are basically walking away from it now .. I still buy but am saddened that people are so desperate to sell .. I hope these markets turn eventually and the consumer demand returns for the wider markets but am seeing people tending towards more essential items in recent times and away from hobbies and collecting .. sobeit but reflects a huge change in our economy and what is driving it now is basically tax dodgers siphoning money from our country to their Swiss bank accounts via tax havens while the government basically does everything but tax that money leaving the country .. so beholding to those scum that trample us, putting their interests on a pedestal before the Australian population .. I carefully watch these things over the years and what we are seeing right now is a massive consumer downturn .. maybe linked to the ongoing fire season .. but almost inevitable that many many businesses will suffer now ..

my point being is that if humans are going to constantly suckle from the devils teat we are de-evolving as a species .. Chameleon you obviously have a legal right to spend your money gambling on the stock market but you truly are playing in the devils own casino when you do that so a word of warning; the game is rigged, but you already know that .. you are one shrewd old bandicoot for sure .. so sad that we are being driven from pillar to post .. and I admire the fact chameleon has chosen his land in a safe catchment area upstream (hopefully well away  from the fracking chemicals which will eventually flow downstream through the water table and turn this country into a malignant cancer cluster sporting outrageous tumours and maladies that seemingly defy medical science .. this after all the brown coal is destroyed via multi national tax dodger exploiters'  fracking adventure in our country all enabled by government before science has fully learned how to utilise the chemical cocktail locked in our massive reserves of brown coal .. our future prosperity dashed away  and ultimately sending this country to the third world .. robbing us blind .. your great great grandchildren cancer victims and a burden on Australia's future economy) ..

we have just seen a solid uptick in the price of global oil and oil stocks as a result of the hostility between Iran and America as multiple investors dive on the easy money and send a gift to Opec (The biggest cartel in the world .. and if I don't miss my guess many wishing for and angling for $100 a barrel and super profits for the oil companies once again) .. sure you can invest in that but don't forget those shares will be sold on the way down and as many people who win will loose .. this is not productivity it is a gambling casino with winners and losers in a rigged game .. anyway I have to say I think Chameleons plan B will be a treasure for future generations of his family and they may avoid much of the abuses coming down the line so long as the government and their corporate mates don't find a way to steal that away from Chameleons's family in the future .. and as we know the government won't just allow people to catch that water without a permit etc so all the while regulators hold the axe hand over who wins and who loses ..

we are clearly about to enter a recession and no doubt a blowout in Government spending all the while the reserve bank poised to profit for the later so why not the former being a windfall for these types as our government is forced to borrow once again .. all the while the reserve banksters gambling with our money in opaque ways .. who would know if their investments are sound? or whether they are in fact bankrupted criminal gamblers hiding behind a facade of wealth conning us into believing only they know how to manage the world's economies ..

Apologies for scapegoating you Chameleon .. you are obviously better endowed than most to cope with this nonsense economy most of us are now flailing in as we are pushed from pillar to post to maximise corporate profits which are not being acquired through competition in a fair market but a rigged market that favours their brand of tax haven based capitalism while most in this country are forced to arduous lives to compensate for that .. a handful of remora fish can obviously get a cheap meal while suckling the parasites from a white pointer shark as it hunts it's next victim but this is not how the game should be played .. to do so is to revert to primitive behaviours .. but that is what neo capitalism is .. primitive where might makes right and the wants of the one outweigh the needs of the many ..

.. for the rest of us we must also find our Plan B as obviously plan A was just a bait and switch and has been usurped to serve the interests of the corporation ..

As the bushfires rage on and the fire retardant bombers are yet to make their way to our shores I am sure somewhere a bankster is poised to make a super profit not by hard work or productivity but by forcing us to a new agenda .. whether that be borrowing from a cartel of banksters as we mortgage vast tracts of land to satiate them or hastening our slide towards fascism and a police state .. none of it bodes well for a free future for the wider Australian population ..

.. as I say not much point throwing good money (and time) behind that badly spent .. am sure the corporate machine that has been unleashed upon us will find a way to stamp out all glimmers of hope as time goes by .. and even the crippling positive among us will eventually wake up and see it for what it is .. a march to oppression and pestilence for all but the most cashed up and well heeled .. a few smart ones will obviously find a way out of this mess  and find a pathway to freedom for the rest it is slavery ..

.. I will just leave it there now and say my goodbyes .. I cannot stand the militant crippling positivity on these boards by the regulars here and truly now do have better things to do with my time then linger here trying to resuscitate a beast that should just be left to die a natural death ..

[gutterpunkz05]

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@x3n0m wrote:

           "where the **bleep** is the ACCC on all this?;  alseep at the wheel .. clearly it is only the tip of a nasty iceberg sure to crash our economy and destroy our way of life ultimately designed to send our descendants to economic slavery (or worse) ..

WOW, just WOW, that's a real mouthful to try to digest. I think some-one has been watching too many conspiratorial sci fi shows."

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Actually I was pulling punches as know people don't want their bubbles busted, I call your kind of blindness "crippling positivity" chameleon .. the evidence is staring us all in the face .. at the very least the ACCC is complicit if not a co-conspirator to the American Chamber of Commerce and there continuous attack and Uberising of our economy .. am glad it works for someone Chameleon but for the majority of the Australian population is nothing but a curse as the Septics come here, infiltrate our business landscape, stample all over our economy and manipulate us towards economic slavery ..

As for gutterpunkz I would suggest you also put a calculation into your spreadsheet showing your time in motion in dollars per hour on your profit on turnover .. your sellthrough of 3% of inventory per month makes me question why anyone would bother with it and doesn't look like you have much wriggle room for "suck it up" costs unless you get all that stock for free (like Chameleon .. scoff) ..

anyway obviously us "dumb aussies" (sitting ducks) are satisfied with crumbs from the table of the Uber rich multi national exploiters here to rip us a new one .. I am certainly not drinking the Kool-Aid or going to delude myself with crippling positivity ..

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You are obviously not aware that we are able to have more than one account.  I am not worried about this account, as it is just for fun, and another way to utilize freebies from ebay.  Might have to list a couple of other items on this account, at ridiculous prices

just to show how varied my stock is,  and yes  I pay chickens feed for it, actually I probably spend more on chickens feed.

[chameleon54]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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@x3n0m wrote:

still logged in so .. .. you sound like a smart person Chameleon who is well endowed to cope with all manner of rapid fluctuations in manipulated markets .. no doubt you will also find a way to profit from global thermo nuclear war too .. some would welcome the easy money .. ...]

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That's out of order. You've no smidgeon of a right to cast that sort of aspersion on Chameleon, who - to the best of my knowledge - is a decent and hard-working bloke NOT living the high life relaxing in a spa filled with champagne. Ability to survive does not equate to being a smarmy nuclear arms dealer.

I'm calling on you to apologise for that, and keep such unmerited comments out of the debate.

I'm truly sorry to hear about comcol's even worse situation.

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Thankyou for your support Countess, but I don't really take x3n0m's comments too personally. If you strip away the conspiracy theories, a lot of the basic comments x3n0m makes regards the structure of the financial and business systems and the impact they have on everyday people are correct and insightful. The comments are just framed in a very colourful way.

I do get accused of having a pre-occupation with money from time to time by forum responders, but the comments are made without a full understanding of my personal situation. I purchased my first farm at a very young age ( trying to get a start in life ) and within 12 months was paying 27% interest on my loan, thanks to Keatings high interest rates and the recession we had to have. This pushed us to the point of bankruptcy, even receiving a letter from the bank advising us to sell up. Our bank accounts where frozen and all income was taken by the bank. It is an often used cliche, but as we where not eligible for social security we literally didn't have any money to buy food or fuel for the car. We would have been much better off on the dole.

The only way out was to work a full time paid job, while putting in a huge crop at night, just sowing seeds into the ground without fertilisers etc. I literally went many months working until 4.00 am. and then getting up for my day job at 7.30 am.This did not play well with my mental health and is not something I wish to ever repeat.

Luckily it was a good year for crops and we got out of trouble.

Since then my wife who ran a successful business became blind at age 35. The business was sold and we now rely on my single income. This is made more difficult by the fact that as a partial carer I have had to do all of the running around after the kids, driving the wife to anything she wants to attend, house cleaning duties, shopping  etc..

We didn't want the kids to miss out on stuff due to the wife's disability so I have even coached junior netball for awhile, like other mums do. As a family we didn't want to be reliant on social security which is not adequate for families and can leave kids feeling like second rate citizens in their hand me down clothes at school. The result of all this is our family relies on the part time income I can round up from farming and ebay. If x3n0m wants to talk about gambling, farming is the biggest gamble of them all..

I have to work hard, fast and smart to keep it all together. Chasing the dollars when I see them. We have a modest lifestyle, own a neat but ordinary house, drive a 12 year old car, help the now young adult children out a bit etc. Nothing flashy but we do pay our own way in life, not answerable to a boss or reliant on Centrlink.

This is the hidden life of disability and the impact it has on families and having experienced a standard of poverty, much lower than people on social security experience, I never want to go back there again.