Banned and Coins Confiscated

Woke up to an email saying my coins had been confiscated with an AH ban.  I had been working on building a JJ Watt TD card, which is super tedious.  My guess is all the card purchases and selling the team diamond cards flagged my account?  Some of those core set cards get gouged in the market (ie 50-70k for a 85 FB or a Chubb card).   

Never bought coins or given anything to anyone.  Made it to 26/32 tokens for Watt’s set as if 10pm sprinkled with some ZC challenge.  A really terrible Xmas present from EA.  I think they took 5 or so million coins from me.  

I have spent a few hundred bucks on madden pts between November and December (ms rewards, gift cards, real $).  So EA basically sold me packs that I turned around and made into coins via AH or quick selling platinum cards, then they took the coins from me lol.  This is some third world dictatorship stuff.

Its a shame how they ban innocent people on the auction house

Yet they let Bots run wild on the auction house, which ruins sniping

yeah bro I’m banned too for match cheating. pretty confident i know who reported me. bet one guy 5 times in the space of 2 hours in that H2H mode. 

never DC glitched, so figuring someone salty reported me

Motionez11 said:

Woke up to an email saying my coins had been confiscated with an AH ban.  I had been working on building a JJ Watt TD card, which is super tedious.  My guess is all the card purchases and selling the team diamond cards flagged my account?  Some of those core set cards get gouged in the market (ie 50-70k for a 85 FB or a Chubb card).   

Never bought coins or given anything to anyone.  Made it to 26/32 tokens for Watt’s set as if 10pm sprinkled with some ZC challenge.  A really terrible Xmas present from EA.  I think they took 5 or so million coins from me.  

I have spent a few hundred bucks on madden pts between November and December (ms rewards, gift cards, real $).  So EA basically sold me packs that I turned around and made into coins via AH or quick selling platinum cards, then they took the coins from me lol.  This is some third world dictatorship stuff.

They really should just take away the Team Diamond program out of the game. This is the second year in a row where people spend time buying cards for sets and sell the cards they want.  It's strange that someone can put up an 80-81 for 400K on the auction house and not get banned.  Most of the cards for those sets are 3 to 5 times the actual market price. If cards can't be sold for profit then take the entire feature out of the game. We are to the point where if you want a majority of the best cards then break out your wallet.

shuckas28 said:

They really should just take away the Team Diamond program out of the game. This is the second year in a row where people spend time buying cards for sets and sell the cards they want.  It's strange that someone can put up an 80-81 for 400K on the auction house and not get banned.  Most of the cards for those sets are 3 to 5 times the actual market price. If cards can't be sold for profit then take the entire feature out of the game. We are to the point where if you want a majority of the best cards then break out your wallet.

Yeah it’s crazy seeing the cards selling for 5-6x , sometimes more,  multiples.  I just ate the cost.  Figured making Watt for a 2mil rot on my coin stack was better than buying him at 4mil or so.  They already have thresholds in place on value, so I’m not sure what’s up with their algorithm on the AH bans.  There was obviously a theme to the cards being bought and sold along with the sets being complete.  JJ takes minimally 950+ cards all told before having to do the underlying dynasty, ptot, or HL sets for some missing pieces.  Why put this in the game if you’re going ban people for taking part in it….  

I find it hard to believe a person reviews my activity and comes to the same conclusion.  Still not super hopeful in my appeal given others’ outcomes.

edit: The TD cards I sold ranged in price between 295-640k.  It really depends on the team and/or player.  Like very few people are going to buy Tarkentons card so it sells for a loss, whereas Vincent/Thomas/Bell’s card are in the 550-650k range.  I didn’t dump anything but got gouged to all hell on quite a few bottleneck cards.

Motionez11 said:

Yeah it’s crazy seeing the cards selling for 5-6x , sometimes more,  multiples.  I just ate the cost.  Figured making Watt for a 2mil rot on my coin stack was better than buying him at 4mil or so.  They already have thresholds in place on value, so I’m not sure what’s up with their algorithm on the AH bans.  There was obviously a theme to the cards being bought and sold along with the sets being complete.  JJ takes minimally 950+ cards all told before having to do the underlying dynasty, ptot, or HL sets for some missing pieces.  Why put this in the game if you’re going ban people for taking part in it….  

I find it hard to believe a person reviews my activity and comes to the same conclusion.  Still not super hopeful in my appeal given others’ outcomes.

edit: The TD cards I sold ranged in price between 295-640k.  It really depends on the team and/or player.  Like very few people are going to buy Tarkentons card so it sells for a loss, whereas Vincent/Thomas/Bell’s card are in the 550-650k range.  I didn’t dump anything but got gouged to all hell on quite a few bottleneck cards.

Exactly...ban the people that run exploits and bots. I guess you can't  spend a  good day working the auction house buying cards and selling them. Yet it's okay to sell the  Cover Athletes for 8-10 MIL and not get flagged.

There is no TJ Watt TD card

blitzfist said:

There is no TJ Watt TD card

Yeah typo on my part it’s JJ.  You could just assume it’s JJ that I’m referencing too ya know…

Motionez11 said:

Yeah typo on my part it’s JJ.  You could just assume it’s JJ that I’m referencing too ya know…

No thanks.  Lack of attention to detail is likely why you got banned.  I did the Elway set last year and was very careful about not buying cards that I considered red flags.  Couldn't imagine attempting these sets this year and not even knowing the card I was going after.

blitzfist said:

No thanks.  Lack of attention to detail is likely why you got banned.  I did the Elway set last year and was very careful about not buying cards that I considered red flags.  Couldn't imagine attempting these sets this year and not even knowing the card I was going after.

Red flags? Lmao the entire EA company is a red flag. They have a lot of nerve banning people for using the AH. Unless someone was actually cheating, they shouldn't ban anybody

blitzfist said:

No thanks.  Lack of attention to detail is likely why you got banned.  I did the Elway set last year and was very careful about not buying cards that I considered red flags.  Couldn't imagine attempting these sets this year and not even knowing the card I was going after.

Typing TJ vs. JJ doesn’t mean I don’t know which card lol.  My appeal has JJ referenced so 🤷‍♂️

SportsPerson94 said:

Red flags? Lmao the entire EA company is a red flag. They have a lot of nerve banning people for using the AH. Unless someone was actually cheating, they shouldn't ban anybody

Agreed but that doesn't change the fact I completed the set mainly using the APP and also sold cards on the app (sometimes 1M+ in coins in a day) and never got banned.  It's not that hard if you pay attention.  This year the APP is not useable.

blitzfist said:

Agreed but that doesn't change the fact I completed the set mainly using the APP and also sold cards on the app (sometimes 1M+ in coins in a day) and never got banned.  It's not that hard if you pay attention.  This year the APP is not useable.

I never use the app. Too many ways to get banned and i don't want to deal with the bullshit of getting unbanned

Motionez11 said:

Typing TJ vs. JJ doesn’t mean I don’t know which card lol.  My appeal has JJ referenced so 🤷‍♂️

Lol

OK i will let it go.  At least you didn't type Derek Watt.