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I strongly recommend reading "I fought the PayPal and I won", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33462658. If you feel you're in the right, you should study the eBay user agreements, figure out your options, and exercise them.

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I'm not sure if it's the fact that I mentioned pursuing legal action in my most recent message but eBay has now reinstated my account. I have no problem with steps being taken to prevent fraud but the absurdity of this situation with no easy way to actually talk to those in charge of the decision made this ridiculously infuriating.

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You made a post an hour ago and within 29 minutes provided an update that it was resolved. How much easier can it get?

Just because eBay saw it trending on HN and decided to resolve it for good PR doesn’t mean the process was easy.

I guarantee you this is what happened; it literally happens all the time with people here.

I had been going through the process with ebay for 3-4 days before I finally decided to make this post

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