EA COLLEGE FOOTBALL 25 AUCTION HOUSE

It's because you sold the cards for max value. The only time cards sale for max value is when someone has bought currency from a third party website and is selling a card at max value to redeem the purchased currency. That is against EA  policy and that account will be banned from the auction house until next year's game is released. You will have to make a new account or play that one without the auction house. Moral of the story is don't buy currency from a third party website and never sell cards much past their median historical value.

Im new to sports games must of been why im banned haven't played a Madden game since 2006 i was putting my cards at max thinking they would never sell and i recently was banned from the Auction House it was never my intention to ever break ToS found a few popular cards tried putting them at max and sure enough they sold.

Feels absolutely terrible and demoralizing to be banned im a older guy who just enjoys Football and wanted to sell my cards thought heck ill put'em at max.

Very sad and depressing to be honest.

Whole part of the auction is for it to be dictated by what the market is so if your price is past the market medium is, someone just doesn’t pay attention to it then. If you get some fool that buys it though that’s their loss. You don’t ban players for it an asinine as * response. What else should be expected from EA but to further alienate player base.

Hi LovelJamesIrving,

Hope you're having a great day 🙂

This response shoul dnot be taken personally, rather as a counter to what has been posted. This about EA and not any single CFB 25 user/ "Answers HQ English" participant.

I'd like to counter some of your points in your response. 

1. "The only time cards sale for max value is when someone has bought currency from a third party website and is selling a card at max value to redeem the purchased currency." 
   1. Response: This statement states that the "only time a car sells for Max value is when someone has bought currency from a third party, which assumes that one cannot sell a card within EA's own Auction house infrastructure without a third party transaction. This is a false statement of fact. While it is possible for this to occur, it can not and is not the "only" way a card can sell for max value. To apply that to every max vlaue sale would result in any user that has made a max sale being a TOS abuser... which is ridiculous on its face.
   2. Auction house cards sell based off a multitude of factors such as: timing of posting to Auction house, search filters or lack thereof, supply/demand, perceived subjective value, youtube/forum discussions regarding must have cards, and aesthetic of actionable card art that would trigger a user to desire that card regardless of its actuall abilities or in game effect, to name a few.
      1. If pricing cards within EA's own Max value limitations is against EA policy than EA should not have a Auction house for any users or lower the max value for all users to whatever they deem should be the max.
      2. To arbitrarily apply a blanket procedure that flags ALL card sellers that have made a max value card sale (and not just tos abusers like currency sellers) as a TOS sanctionable or banable offenses is bad business practice that unnecessarily punishes players who use the EA's own in-game infrastructure to advance within a game that is otherwise heavily promoting and encouraging micro transaction as the quick, easy, and rewarding method to improve ones team through RNG based gambling pack acquisition.
         1. A thorough review of both the seller of a max value card and purchaser should take place immediately subsequent to any alleged violation in order to determine if there was actually an offense or if it was just normal use of the Auction house. EA cannot label proficient Auctioneers as TOS abusers. No one wants actual TOS abusers in games as it ruins the overall product for everyone else. But again, without proof evidencing currency resale in exchange for IRL-currency EA is making baseless and fruitless sanctions and bans. Users who invest their time and energy into stocking up in game currency that i slater seized erroneously is akin to theft. 
      3. Furthermore, once honest tos abiding users are erroneously banned from use of the Auction House EA is provided with a higher likelihood that the user will fork over real life currency in order to interact with the game at or near the same level of competition. 
2. To be clear, EA should ban all third-party currency resellers. EA should NOT and cannot erroneously and without actual evidence ban players like those within tis "Answers HQ"  that have invested time and energy into understanding and selling cards within the auction house simply because their proficiency in doing so results in the user not needing to make micro transactions. Funny how after a ban users can only interact with newly added cards is through micro transactions or gambling based packs, as opposed to saving up your in game currency for that card you really want. Simply, EA appears based off of these facts to squash any user who is good at listing cards and making profits within EA's own infrastructure.

@energyman827You make great points regarding the purpose and benefit of an auction house within a Ultimate team setting. You are essentially being punished here for selling cards at the price most advantageous for your own interests. It sounds like EA doesn't appreciate users gaining in game currency outside of a micro-transaction for their premium in game currency.

I encourage you to escalate your grievances both within EA's reporting/help methods and outside should that not resolve your grievances.

Otherwise, here is the link to the Better Business Bureau where you can air your grievances with a customer awareness company(updated from prior post incorrectly naming BBB as a governmental agency, thanks to @Anobix for pointing this out).

https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/redwood-city/profile/wholesale-video-games/electronic-arts-inc-1116-64196

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@duf24 wrote:
@energyman827You make great points regarding the purpose and benefit of an auction house within a Ultimate team setting. You are essentially being punished here for selling cards at the price most advantageous for your own interests. It sounds like EA doesn't appreciate users gaining in game currency outside of a micro-transaction for their premium in game currency.

I encourage you to escalate your grievances both within EA's reporting/help methods and outside should that not resolve your grievances.

Otherwise, here is the link to the Better Business Bureau where you can air your grievances with a governmental body.

https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/redwood-city/profile/wholesale-video-games/electronic-arts-inc-1116-64196

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I agree with your replies through this thread. But as a correction/aside. There's nothing government about the BBB it is just a customer awareness company. There's no governmental oversight to it.

I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s ridiculous.