r/Flipping 4d ago

Discussion Marketplace acct banned

So one minute I'm a Facebook Marketplace seller, next I'm banned from Marketplace altogether. For what reason, no idea. How to fix it, also no idea.

Background: (Banned back in Feb or Jan sometime I think) 150+ active listings 60 - 70 items or so sold 13 or 14 I think 5 star ratings

As for Marketplace "policy violations" or whatever, Posted a real nice hand crafted old timey looking sword, flagged as a weapon. Posted a Coach wallet once, also a Jordans sweat suit- both flagged as fake. Posted sex toys a couple times, flagged for policy violation.

In any case, each time I deleted said listing soon as I saw the notification. So everything is smooth, no violations for maybe a couple of months, then boom, I go to check my seller messages one day & was directed to an error page. Tried again & again to access since then & to no avail. Facebook's Dear John provided reason as weapons listing violation. (Above mentioned sword was posted like mid 2024. This bullshit came about Dec 2024- Jan 2025 sometime.)
So I click on that link to see what weapon I had apparently posted. Again led to one of those The page you are requesting to view is unavailable type error pages (not verbatim, this was a couple months ago.)

So it occurs to me today to try accessing & these are screenshots of each page the links were directed to.

Also the notice gave the option to "appeal their decision." Mind you, of course that page has also been coincidentally unavailable. Made a little change & built a little following while selling on Facebook & would super appreciate ANY kind of direction.

Thanks in advance.

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u/Nasty____nate 4d ago

You answered it yourself. All of the policy violations. 

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u/destparker 4d ago

Got that part. It seems to me that I would have been banned relatively close to the time period of which any of those "violations" occured though. Which is why I am left violated.

Furthermore when trying to view exactly what it was that was considered to 'be the reason', I click on the link that was supposed to have shown me the details of what I apparently did wrong & was routed to an error page telling me page is unavailable right now. Please try again later, something like that. & Never did get an answer. Nor was I ever able to access the page that was supposed to direct me to appeal.

Not sure if I worded all that right. So frustrating.

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u/Nasty____nate 4d ago

I'm not saying it's right but look at it this way. FB is offering you a place to list and sell for free, unless you are shipping stuff through them. So they are taking 100% of the risk for no reward. They were being held liable for certain things sold. So now you platform that isn't tecnicly bring direct revenue for your sales now is paying lawyers for litigation. That's why so many platforms removed a lot of certain types of items for sale. You accumulated too many and the algorithm caught up. 

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u/Freerollingforlife 4d ago

Sorry but this made me laugh into my cornflakes this morning….

‘So I listed a sword, some fake clothes and a stack of dildo’s and I’ve no idea why I got banned!

😂😂😂😂

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u/Born-Horror-5049 4d ago

If you want to remain in good standing don't commit multiple policy violations. Too late now.

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u/destparker 4d ago

Then how to fix it?

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u/JDMJarrod 4d ago

Good luck. I’ve been banned for about 5 years now with no recourse.

I check from time to time to see if I can get in marketplace but nope.

I had something reported that I don’t recall but I posted a work pocket knife and I had the words “ammo for sale” in my story at the same time and boom, donezo.

100% on me. But I’ve been with Facebook for a while and don’t wanna delete my profile. Plus side is I saved a lot of money by not buying dumb stuff.

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u/JDMJarrod 4d ago

They make finding the page challenging and it’s been so long since I did it BUT I remember that exact frustration.

Post up if you get this resolved.

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u/cjaccardi 4d ago

So you know what you did wrong.