You obviously don't always relist 100 so an item doesn't end from being sold out. On the 12th you did 3 listings for Popeye - 1 item available in the first listing, 10 available in the 2nd, and 100 in the 3rd. Why worry about the listing ending from being sold out when you'd already had two other listings end for the same reason?

That's not why you did it - you were hoping to cash in on Robin Williams' death and get extra sales. You obviously knew you'd get extra sales, by your comments about always selling more of the Titanic at a certain time of year.

It's against the rules to list stock you don't have, unless you state that you're drop-shipping. You gambled on being able to hang onto all the extra sales and you lost, so how can you blame anyone else?

You state that you let your buyers know you didn't have it stock but you didn't do this until after they'd bought it. You should have had it in the listing if you were waiting on new stock.

Is it worthy of a permanent ban? I said at the start of my previous post that I didn't think it was, but the defect system is partly aimed at stopping people listing what they can't supply and the punishment has to be severe enough to be a deterrent.