After 5+ years, tens of thousands of dollars of buying and selling gear, 320+ 5 star reviews, I was notified today my account is being permanent closed.
They’re saying it’s because I’ve tried to do some deals off site, to avoid taxes and fees. Sometimes I’ll ask if I can pick it up locally, and vice versa if I’m selling, but it still goes through reverb.
There have been a handful of times the person has offered to sell me something off reverb to avoid the fees, and vice versa. I assumed the messages were private, and that this is something done often between people even though it’s not allowed.
I thought wrong! I’m bummed, I rely on Reverb for a lot of my sales. Then again, it has fueled my gear addiction horribly.
I don’t have a point to all this, and I’m not saying they’re in the wrong. I’m just sad that it happened. I know they’ve made lots of money off me, just in the past month alone, and I hope I don’t have trouble buying and selling some gear moving forward.