I just got off the phone with "customer support" regarding one of my listings that was removed.

The email I received about the violation is so vague.  It says
"To ensure sellers consistently provide a high level of buyer satisfaction, we monitor the site for listings that are likely to result in eBay Money Back Guarantee cases. When we review these types of listings, we look at criteria such as a listing’s images, the accuracy of the title and description, and other factors that may lead a buyer to be unhappy with their purchase.

Unfortunately, the item mentioned further below met these criteria and has been ended. We took this action to help you avoid a negative buyer experience that could affect your account standing."

My listings are EXTREMELY detailed.  The agent I spoke with agreed that my listing looked good to her and she didn't see anything wrong with it. She put me on hold for about 15 minutes while she spoke with a supervisor about it.  Now I have to wait a day before they can remove the violation flag and I can relist the item.

Apparently there are some new filters in place that flagged my listing.  What a bunch of BS!  I'm a part time seller, so the impact of a single listing removed is minimal.  I imagine that there are many sellers who are really suffering due to the bogus filter.  They are going to lose fees over stuff like this.  Totally dumb!

I need fewer hassles in my life, not more

 eBay wants to screw with me, so fine.  I've decided to limit myself to only the few listings that I know sell regularly.  They want to limit me to 45 listings per month.  I'm limiting myself to 5 listings per month.  Why should I give my hard earned money to a company that doesn't feel like they have to earn it.

One thing is certain, I do a much better job of taking care of my customers than eBay does.  I really wish the sellers could organize a boycott eBay month.It's already happening.  The vintage categories are pale shadows of what they have been because those sellers have wised up and moved to another site that has cheaper fees, a level playing field for sellers, better quality of buyers and a much better policy set up that doesn't change evey couple of months to go out of it's way to punish sellers.

And don't think that ebay hasn't noticed that the other site has gone from little alt site to one of the top 10 selling sites on the net.  I pump most of my payments from sales there through paypal so ebay can clearly see just how much money they could have been making if they had treated me better.Sarcasim, huh? Bottom line is that there are other things more important in life. I listed, in the past, as many as 400 items (most sold) every month. Not a monster account but substantial. Over the years, I've found myself jumping through more and more eBay hoops and the profit going down and down.
 A month ago, I got a "wake-up call" when my wife had a heart attack ( She's doing fine now thanks to fast Cardio Surgery but ladies, the TV ads are true: there was NO warning!) but when I weighed all the aggravation that eBay, the Postal Service AND some buyers who are just this side of idiots, and all of a sudden it doesn't matter anymore.
 I'm in the process of liquidating my inventory and USAirways, United Airlines and Hilton will be getting more of my time, $$$, and attention.
 Our personal episode showed me that this just isn't worth the nightmares anymore, and OP, I feel your frustration. Good luck to you all.

Buying Guides from International to Indonesia

I have purchased items from International country most like USA, China and Hongkong then I had to search by my personal experience transactions with seller until items arrived to my front door. Its surprise me that items purchased from USA and Hongkong seller had little problems about time delay but it worth to wait than items purchased from China had several problems like not received items especially with no tracked delivery from seller so we both could not located the items status.

I have purchased items from several China seller - some of high star seller - with little problems about time delay - items still arrived to my front door then I follow seller with positive feedback in my mind about those seller. What about rest of its seller ? simple then I won't follow them because I did not received my purchased items, open a case then solutions will come up. I did not rate them with negative feedbacks as bad seller as far as they come with good-will to solve the main problems.

So based on my personal experience, it will be wise if someone buy from International seller to ask them first about their items quality and also shipping or delivery service like with track shipping or not. So both buyer and seller can locate the items and then both subject able to ask to its postal service about the items status based on tracking code.