Sellers opinions please

[TylerAntiques4U]

Hello,
I've been thinking about bringing a lot of items here to sell. When looking at the "Suspended Stores" in the community messages I see a huge bunch of them in the last 6 months. I don't want to go to all the work of listing a great many things just to get suspended. Why are so many suspended?

[thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat]

It depends on what you sell and if you follow the rules and terms of selling on eCRATER. Read those terms before you do anything else. If your products are legal (not on the banned list) and you have permission to sell them you should have no problem.

Most of the suspensions I've seen have been off shore sellers selling technology that may or may not be authentic and are unwilling to offer proof their items are legitimate and they have the rights to sell them.

There are other reasons stores are suspended like offering payment methods not approved by eCRATER, posting in a foreign language, using someone else's photos, etc. They aren't trying to discourage sellers, just keep the site clean and safe for buyers.

You know the story about there are no guilty people in prison? The same is true when suspended sellers post here about the unfairness of eCRATER. We only see their complaint, not what eCRATER sees.

[SammysSupplies]

This is a great place to sell, just read the terms and follow the rules. There aren't many. So many people come here just because they know it is a cheap place to set up shop never reading the terms. That is what gets you suspended.

[MoonwishesStore]

[elpereles]

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[MoonwishesStore]

[yourmobilecases]

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[MoonwishesStore]

[elpereles]

More strange isn't the jump. He/she has empty store with electronic related stuff.

Now getting back to the topic. As far I saw none of the "suspended stores" get suspension based in a retaliation from the eCrater staff like other sites. In some cases it just a group of sellers that believe "free" site means not rules.

[A-Better-Way]

It's not ecrater doing anything.

when people open a store they don't fill out the things the customers need to know.Then I see ones that just don't have a grasp of computers, spelling, or really bad shipping terms, duplicate listings, then open another store.

For me it's would seem kind of hard to get ecrater to mess with you unless you are doing something really stupid, or illegal, or against what any website would also not want. They crack down on retail brand names to protect authorized sellers.

I mean the rules don't even feel like there are any if all you want to do is sell good things, and maintain your store.

[maggiethehousecat]

Lets not get reasons for suspension on eCRATER confused with prison populations and racial profiling.

[cosmicray]

I'm going to post this here, even tho I think it may be drifting off topic ...

What I think we are all talking about is a clash of objectives. We (the sellers) have a different set of objectives than the site owner/staff.

We would prefer that every store operator had a highest ethical standard, and always made sure their store was inline with best practices (i.e. fully filled out).

The site would like to see more stores be populated and opened. Putting non-essential road blocks in the way of opening a new store might cause the person to go looking at another site. Some stores are undesirable (either because of what they are selling, or how they are doing it). Those stores may get opened, but they are then suspended (to try to get the store owner move in the direction of the ToS and best practices).

It is a balancing act between keeping the good sellers here, trying to not let eCRATER get a rep for bad sellers, and being open to new store owners to join.

[MoonwishesStore]

I studied up on ecrater before joining here. Over the years, someone would mention a rule and I would go duh inside as I didn't recall it. What I was finding is when I read the rules the first time, I could see which wouldn't be applying to me nor would I be straddling the fence about them for certain categories I would never sell in such as knives, so-called 'adult' items, smoking devices, etc. Why fill up my head with stuff like that? I did however try to pay very close attention to what was applicable such as selling to all 50 states, length of titles, number of pictures, size or pictures to avoid ads, no duplicate listings and things like that. So for those of us that set up our stores like that, yes it is hard to get suspended.

Those that read the rules (if they do) and want to see how close they can come to the breaking point without breaking the rules are in a different situation and we have seen it many times here. Especially when we have runs of those with the smoking devices, electronic goods, etc. that are getting suspended.

I do think that we all including the ecrater team want a nice healthy environment to sell in.