artist formally known as tp4mybh asked:


For the last several years I’ve been using this ebay account that was set up by this girl I broke up with like 3 years ago but we stayed friends, or so I thought, and I have always used this ebay to make my money, buying and selling my things to get new stuff etc. There is now 120 feedback, 99% of which is mine and I’ve also earned about a 99% positive feedback rating after all this time. Now a few months ago we agreed I was going to take over the account completely, since technically it was still in her name, and I was going to launch a decal business with it. So then I find out that the user name can be changed which I never knew, so I did so and finally changed it from the girly name she had originally made, to the new sticker biz name. Well the business was largely unsuccessful, didn’t sell a single one for some reason which was quite disappointing.

So afterwards I recently went and changed the name to something different that I liked since I was taking over the account anyway right? Well she sees the new name I picked, britneyrules0, and totally flips out and changes the passwords and everything locking me out of the account and now she won’t let me use it at all anymore. See apparently she for some reason hates Britney Spears with a vengeance, who knows why, but shes always hated her I’ve always liked her, and I just liked her new video? Ya know, she’s all wet and naked and.. huh! Oh, right..well anyway I thought she’d be like “oh very funny haha eye-roll move-on” you know, like whats the big deal? Maybe shes my cherry pie not yours! Anyway, since she does not even ever use the account except to sell things once in a blue moon for her step-dad and I was taking it over anyway, but nope she’s like super mega pissed and now will not let me use it at all anymore, just because I changed the name to something she doesn’t like, and I’m just like umm ok? Because if I had not changed the name to what I did, I would still be able to use the ebay like normal as I always have…so anyway do you think it’s right that I can’t use it anymore even though I am the one to earn all that feedback?

Not really a big deal though, but my main concern is that I had sold a few pre-orders for an Xbox 360 game that now comes out pretty soon, so I wanted to take care of it and make sure the people get their games and everyone’s happy. But since she has now locked me out because of the, what I guess is, an epic name change, she now says she is going to refund the pre-order customers their money which she is borrowing from her mom, which is confusing because why would she basically volunteer to pay for four 360 games that I was going to take care of without her having to do anything? At any rate I suppose it is her problem now since she is refusing me access to the account and keeping me from being able to handle the pre-orders myself which is what I’m trying to do? I wouldn’t want her in all her name-rage to just ignore the games and then pass the blame on me, also, wouldn’t it make more sense to just send the games instead of refunding everybody, I mean I like to always have happy customers and this could possibly prompt some neutral or even negative feedback to the oh-so-precious account she suddenly cares so much about. So should I just not care since she’s apparently voluntarily taking on the cost and responsibility of the pre-sold games herself when I tried and put in effort to take care of it myself as I normally would have done?
well now what she is doing is, she now insists I take over the account out of nowhere, and coincidentally right after I posted this question lol, anyway now her stance is she suddenly wants nothing to do with it, either I take it or she shuts it down. So she keeps changing the addresses etc to mine while keeping the email as hers, but also what she’s done is made it impossible for me to sell anything to take care of the pre-orders, which I’m guessing she lied about, by unlinking everything and not allowing me to use the ebay as normal, since she knows I don’t have any cards or money to put up front myself for the fees, what I have always done is use the money I got in paypal by selling my own stuff to pay all the fees out of that. And she’s also changed the card to an invalid one, I mean call me crazy but once again its almost like shes really out to screw me over on purpose for some reason. And all because of a name…yeah.

Corrinne

2 Responses to “Is it legal to lock me out of the ebay I’ve been using for years?”

1. grneyes8621 on February 18th, 2010 3:01 am

   Emilio

   It was always her account. When you split up you should have simply started your own account and built it up over the last 3 years.
   At this point, that no longer matters. Whatever she does now will not reflect negatively on you because it is her account and the negative ratings will go to her. So, go ahead and start another account and don’t share this one with anyone.
   It’s not that hard to build up ratings anyway. I have been on there just over a year and have 107.

2. evileye322 on February 21st, 2010 9:33 am

   Tereasa

   its her account, in her name, her email, her address. she screwed herself. let her deal with it.

   if you want it back from her and she gives it back, make sure you get it entirely from her, everything changed over to you, email, address, make a new password etc.

   but if it were me, i’d leave it alone, and start a new one. don’t share the password with anyone, and always operate under your own account.