"I bought a Skylanders private header off someone who assured me that it would work, only to find now that I've been banned."
Found the issue. We have no idea that this was ACTUALLY a private header. Four times so far I've helped people by ripping private headers for them (they pay me via paypal, I get a cheap game and rip it for them) but every time I make sure to take pictures of the transactions, with the date, record me ripping the header and sending it off so that they're as certain as they can be that they are ACTUALLY private. What's saying that the guy that sold the guy on Reddit the header didn't just take the money and then grab a public one to make a profit?