I really don't hold out much hope for you OP, but I feel your post has a lot of value to many casual viewers who think merely opening another account has 'got one over' on ebay. I would be very wary of trying to get round the rules again- as RFW says the limited company might not be possible as your iSP will trigger the issue again. However, realistically I think this is very unlikely as not only were you banned initially, you then went on to flout the rules by operating on another accounts. When you are banned on one account you are banned on them all, but it sees ebay link the accounts just at the point that you have spent a great deal of money and effort in setting up your business.The initial ban though would have been after warnings- not just for keyword spamming once or twice.Īs RFW says, the only way to sort this really is to concentrate on the initial ban, as that is the one that has caused all the problems, if by some way or another you can get that ban lifted they might release you to sell again. This is not an uncommon scenario and one we often warn about on here. What would be the best thing to do? I have thought about being a limited company and appointing someone else as the Director so that my name isn't linked to my business or eBay account. The problem I have is that my business is in my name and would like to continue selling the stock I bought. I said what about using my fathers account and they said no. They said we have no option but to suspend the account indefinatly and that I cannot use the eBay playform ever. I said yes, that was my old personal account in which I paid up the fees and used for buying only. I did this and they then said that my name is linked to another account from 5-6 years ago. I then thought I could do it full time and buy and sell things on a regular basis so I registered my business with HMRC and created a business eBay account.ģ weeks into the account I had to phone eBay to request higher allowences.

I created another account and have been selling on that for a couple more years with no problems. Now, that account got suspended due to me putting the wrong brand name in the title.

I was an eBay seller for 5 years, selling the odd personal thing (£5 - £20 in value).

Hacker blocking my ebay listings