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It was their exact signup funnel.

- Sign up.

- List a product.

- Use seller hub (it’s free)!

- Enter in payment details (don’t worry you have until the end of the month!).

I was assuming my product would take a while to sell (used receipt printers). They sold almost instantly after I listed them so I had to catch up. I never made it to step 3. I didn’t want to cancel the order because it was my first one and oddly enough didn’t want that to be the reason my account got suspended.

There were so many problems in the eBay backend I encountered only after my items were in transit. I couldn’t add _any payment method_ until my order was received and then I was promptly suspended without warning (before the month they said I had was even up).



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