What happens if you don't pay your eBay fees and ditch the account?
What happens if you don't pay your eBay fees? This is a question a reader recently sent us in. I'll post his question below and we'll touch on why this is a poor idea.
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| Not Paying Your eBay Fees? eBay Will Suspend You... FOR LIFE! |
My girlfriend did this so I'm just wondering what the ramifications are. The fee's are over $50, but under $100.
First off this is a very bad idea, just pay the balance. Here's why. First of all only scumbags don't pay their debts. If you owe somebody money you pay them. That's integrity first and foremost. If someone owed you money you'd want them to pay so why wouldn't you pay when you owe someone money?
Secondly and more importantly however since integrity seems to be something many people don't care about these days is this. If you don't pay your eBay fees not only will eBay turn you over to collections, eBay will ban your account. For those of you who aren't aware an eBay ban is a ban for life, you will never get back on eBay.
While today your girlfriend may not care about eBay and may not have anything to sell or may not have a business which she would like to use eBay to sell her wares on, eventually some day whether she start a business or whether she just have an item laying around the house she would like to sell she will want to use eBay again. A $50 eBay bill is hardly worth losing an eBay account in life in my opinion. Your eBay account over the rest of your life is worth much more than $50 even as a casual user.
Lastly however and this is most important as it impacts others. She is putting anyone who uses the same IP address as her, anyone who lives at the same address as her, and anyone who has used her computer is now at risk of losing their eBay account. Many people don't realize just how sophisticated eBay is at tracking data about you from bank accounts you use, Paypal accounts you use, addresses and phone numbers associated with your account, phone numbers you've called customer support from and even the computer you've logged in on and the flash cookies and bios, eBay tracks it all and matches it to you as well as any other eBay accounts which have used that data.
If you've ever heard of people refer to stealth accounts it's people referring to essentially having to change all of this information so eBay doesn't match your new account up to any past accounts which have been suspended.
It just seems silly to walk away from such a small debt and throw away her ability to sell on eBay for the rest of her life as well as putting you or others eBay accounts at risk. If you have an eBay account, if you sell on eBay or if you plan on selling on eBay in the future I would highly recommend you just pay the debt for her to protect your own account.
First off this is a very bad idea, just pay the balance. Here's why. First of all only scumbags don't pay their debts. If you owe somebody money you pay them. That's integrity first and foremost. If someone owed you money you'd want them to pay so why wouldn't you pay when you owe someone money?
Secondly and more importantly however since integrity seems to be something many people don't care about these days is this. If you don't pay your eBay fees not only will eBay turn you over to collections, eBay will ban your account. For those of you who aren't aware an eBay ban is a ban for life, you will never get back on eBay.
While today your girlfriend may not care about eBay and may not have anything to sell or may not have a business which she would like to use eBay to sell her wares on, eventually some day whether she start a business or whether she just have an item laying around the house she would like to sell she will want to use eBay again. A $50 eBay bill is hardly worth losing an eBay account in life in my opinion. Your eBay account over the rest of your life is worth much more than $50 even as a casual user.
Lastly however and this is most important as it impacts others. She is putting anyone who uses the same IP address as her, anyone who lives at the same address as her, and anyone who has used her computer is now at risk of losing their eBay account. Many people don't realize just how sophisticated eBay is at tracking data about you from bank accounts you use, Paypal accounts you use, addresses and phone numbers associated with your account, phone numbers you've called customer support from and even the computer you've logged in on and the flash cookies and bios, eBay tracks it all and matches it to you as well as any other eBay accounts which have used that data.
If you've ever heard of people refer to stealth accounts it's people referring to essentially having to change all of this information so eBay doesn't match your new account up to any past accounts which have been suspended.
It just seems silly to walk away from such a small debt and throw away her ability to sell on eBay for the rest of her life as well as putting you or others eBay accounts at risk. If you have an eBay account, if you sell on eBay or if you plan on selling on eBay in the future I would highly recommend you just pay the debt for her to protect your own account.
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