Vendor Claims eBay Plays Dirty

[The Straight Story]

Vendor Claims eBay Plays Dirty

LOS ANGELES (CN) - An online vendor claims eBay falsely accuses thousands of sellers of fraud and freezes accounts on a whim, in an "illicit scheme" to force sellers to pay money they don't owe.

Plaintiff Iconic Trading Co. does business on eBay as Koolzap. It claims in Superior Court that its online store was shut down after it paid eBay $27,000 to resolve a false claim that it had committed fraud.
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Koolzap, which sells car and truck parts on eBay, accuses eBay of an "illicit scheme to wrongly obtain funds for their own benefit and use, to the detriment of thousands of eBay sellers."

Koolzap claims that eBay, "with little or no warning," restricts or freezes seller accounts and "destroys and fundamentally disrupts the seller's ongoing economic relationships with customers" by falsely "claiming there's 'suspicious activity' or that another account which owes eBay money or which is otherwise restricted/suspended is 'linked' with the seller's eBay account even though there is no fraud or other inappropriate activity involved and the seller is completely innocent of any wrongdoing and there is no such 'linkage' such that the seller is in any way responsible for what happened with the other 'linked' account".

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/01/43529.htm

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[tularetom]

1. I don't know why they do it

but eBay never takes the side of a vendor when a claim is filed by a buyer. I had to pay over $200 to settle two claims even after I produced evidence that the buyers had received the products they claimed they'd never seen.

I'll never sell anything on eBay again, and I probably won't buy anything there either.