eBay permanently restricted a seller's new account, created for a print-on-demand business, immediately after they attempted to publish their first product via a Printify integration.

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        "author": "Training-Bar-3008",
        "excerpt": "This is strange since eBay has an integration with Printify.\n\n I have sold on eBay since around 1999 and have been thinking about doing print in demand there as well.\n\n Perhaps you can escalate the situation to a higher level to get some help.\n\n I’m guessing but there must have been something between the two accounts that caused a trigger of some kind.\n\n Try to escalate to get an answer or help eB",
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        "excerpt": "That’s great news that your original eBay account is intact. I’m so happy to hear it.\n\n When you contact customer service, you just have to keep keep going and indicate that you need to talk to someone. The longer it goes on, you will eventually get to a person.\n\n I had to do it just a couple weeks ago when I was dealing with a scammer who was trying to get a partial refund on an allegedly heavily",
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      "[post] I continued to go to eBay and saw that my account got restricted from buying and selling.",
      "[post] The second time a lady did the same thing and in the end told me that there was nothing I could do to lift the restriction and she refused to give me a reason why my thing got banned. She said to not open an eBay account ever again and hung up."
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    "post_text": "Hi guys,\n\nI've been working with eBay for a while now. I have a shop where I sell used items from watches, shoes, coins you name it.\n\nRecently, Print-on-Demand has been on my mind and I heard about Printify. I decided to give it a shot and proceeded to open a new eBay account to not mix and mash old garage things with T-Shirts. Long story short, I made my first design and when I clicked \"Publish\" on Printify, it said there was an error. I continued to go to eBay and saw that my account got restricted from buying and selling.\n\nI contacted support by phone two times. The first time the dude said: \"I'll place the call on hold as we'll work on our end here\". I got left there for 20 mins then the call ended. The second time a lady did the same thing and in the end told me that there was nothing I could do to lift the restriction and she refused to give me a reason why my thing got banned. She said to not open an eBay account ever again and hung up.\n\nHave you had any situation like this before and pls tell me how did you manage to resolve this.",
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