Are you running afoul of the law on eBay without even realizing it? Don't find yourself suddenly subject to an unexpected citation—or worse, suspension.

In practice, it happens all too often—you join, you begin to buy or sell, you succeed fabulously and come to rely on eBay as an important part of your financial or consuming life, and then out of the blue you are written up and locked out and find yourself in limbo. Why did this happen? And how could it have been avoided?

While there are a long list of official eBay rules, they can be be generally summarized as a few commonsense ideas.

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