It looks like eBay CEO Meg Whitman is going to invade the small town of Bettendorf, IA to stump for presidential candidate Mitt Romney. This is an interesting wrinkle, with eBay screwing all of its buyers and sellers over constantly, its not really a surprise that they’d like to see a pro-big business candidate like Romney get elected. Such presidents are often very helpful in getting legislation through that legalizes such screwings or helps to make it difficult for consumers to hold companies responsible for them.

Another eBay seller caught selling misappropriated goods. The scam was being run by Thong Quoc Tran, 30 of Placentia, CA and involved his having allegedly filing more than 1,000 phony warranty claims on Cisco routers. According to the affidavit, Tran would obtain the serial numbers of routers legally purchased from Cisco by companies around the country. Tran would then buy warranties on those routers, claim they were broken, get Cisco to send him replacement parts to repair them and then resell the replacement parts sent by Cisco at a discount on eBay.

Your favorite suspended eBay seller has been quite busy lately and has not had alot of time to post all of the scams and eBay cons he has discovered for a while. I am finally making time for this site and I will be posting with a vengeance for the remainder of the holiday season. I appreciate the positive encouragement I have gotten via the e-mails and such. I am still busy mopping up odds and ends of the mess that eBay has made for me.

eBay loves to tell everyone how they suspend “bad” sellers for the protection of the eBay Community. Like most of their “Trust & Safety” bullshit, this is a half-truth. After they suspend you, they don’t let you have any access to your account so you dont even know who to ship items to, who has been taken care of and who still needs items and . Now, if they suspended an honest seller who really is trying to clean his act up, why wouldn’t they want them to have access to the list of orders of people who have already paid? I sent eBay a letter demanding that they send me that information and to date they have never responded.

The only correspondence I get from eBay these days is their collection agency trying to collect about $700 and change in fees that they charged to my account. I do wish eBay good luck with that, because I do not intend to pay those fees - ever.

The strange auction, which had a current bid of Euro 10 Million (about $13 Million USD) before being ended, was listed by one disgruntled Belgian in protest of his country’s political crisis, which reached a 100-day landmark on Tuesday with no end in sight to the squabbling between Flemish and Walloon politicians.

As everyone has undoubtedly noticed (including the media), eBay has revamped its site and continue to focus on ways to make the site easier to use for buyers. According to eBay, this is all that is needed is a few tweaks and the site will hum with the magic and glory it once did. Of course, I’d disagree. Buyers are seller’s customers and sellers are eBay’s customers. eBay needs to start taking care of its sellers, instead of pulling their usual crap.