I am also upset myself because I was doing everything with the best of intentions and am just heartbroken over this. Going through what I am, I know what is really important in life and this is just a game. At the same time, though, I know how much this 'game' has helped me through and I can't imagine starting over. I am going to call Ganz tomorrow and tell them the situation that I was buying without hyaving any idea it was against user policy and will see where that takes me.

GANZ has decided I bought items from "that" site even though I traded for them. They have access to every kp transaction done, and they can see that I traded certain items of equal value right prior to receiving these items; however, because this person is a seller on that site, I am banned for trading with them. So somehow, we are supposed make sure who ever we trade with does not sell items. My account is banned (I don't dupe or buy/sell), but I notice when I go that site, there still seem to be an overabundance of people selling.....yeah GANZ is really fixing this issue .

I guess I was supposed to spend more time on that site looking for ids of selles to NOT trade with than on forums actually trading. At this time, because of two items I traded for on my 18 month old account, the verdict is: "it does not look like you will be getting this account back." It does not matter that I have only 6 priceless items in 18 months and very few items do I have more than one of.

I have decided for myself what matters is that GANZ is in a financial crisis, and this is their way of reducing accounts to make room for the new accounts opened at Christmas. They will not upgrade their servers or acquire more servers, so they must reduce their account load.....hence ban a certain number of accounts and wait to see if they get sued. A common business practice is to take a risky chance to save money on the short term because the amount saved may outweigh any lawsuit judgment against them.

It's all very scary, really. All the time and money I have invested! Duplicating items would never have crossed my mind, why do people have to do things like this? If someone trades for an item fairly then Ganz says it's a dupe, what then? I'm sure some of these items are being traded 'round and 'round and it would be hard to find the original source of a dupe when all the other traders have simply traded fairly for the item, not having a clue as to it's origins. I wasn't even aware that you could buy virtual items from an auction site until someone pointed one out! Seemed like a strange and risky thing to me anyhow. It's all very frighting and strange. I'm not trading anymore, for now, just giving a few gifts here and there and not expecting anything in return. I'll get what I get w/the adoption of new pets and thru the eStore.

Hi, this is my very first post to WI, so I hope i am doing it right. My account got banned, and when I spoke to a supervisor he said it was because of duplicating and or selling, and I told him I don't know much about computers aside from being a Webkinz addict. I had to answer a lot of questions and explain who I sent items to(which were only Snow White items)and how I received certain items. It took about a week to clear things up, and because I was totally innocent, they finally gave me my account back. It was very frustrating and depressing being accused of such illegal activity. I am happy to have my account back, but unsure of how much more time, energy and money to spend on it knowing that they could ban the account again at anytime. It's so sad that because of those people duplicating, a lot of us are suffering needlessly. Thanks to all of you on WI, your posts helped me alot during this stressful time.

After reading the post here...I am a nervous wreck. I have done nothing wrong but that doesn't seem to matter when "they" decide on banning an account. I think the they need to give us an update and let us know why they are making so many mistakes in banning the wrong accounts.