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Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: Woogie on May 22, 2008, 07:33:06 PM

JCM800 and Laney VC30

Wonder why  :x

Anyone know what could be wrong?

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: kellar on May 22, 2008, 07:43:39 PM

Did you have soundsclips or a youtube video attachment on it demonstrating the item?? They have pulled my listings for that before.

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: Woogie on May 22, 2008, 07:44:21 PM

Nope  :o

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: indysmith on May 22, 2008, 07:47:19 PM

They usually send you an email shortly after pulling your listings to tell you why.
Nasty bar-stewardos.

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: hamfist on May 23, 2008, 08:35:16 AM

Most common reasons that I know of are ;-

1/ using certain words, which don't actually describe the item, in the title purely to get hits from people's searches.

2/ Stating that you retain the right to cancel the auction at any point as the item is for sale elsewhere.

Both are no-no's for ebay

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: Philly Q on May 23, 2008, 12:33:23 PM

Usually if you use any words they don't like it warns you as you're setting up the ad.   When I sold my Yamaha Billy Sheehan Attitude Limited bass it came up with some warning that using someone's name might imply an endorsement that doesn't legally exist.  But in that case the Sheehan endorsement was legit so I left the ad unchanged.

They also, bizarrely, really hate it if you list DVDs as region 0 or all region - they think that suggests it's a bootleg  :roll: .  Even though lots of smaller distributors like Tartan, Anchor Bay and Blue Underground produce perfectly legitimate region-free discs.  In those cases I just list the DVDs as region 1 or 2 because I'm afraid they will pull the ads.

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: ailean on May 23, 2008, 07:23:28 PM

They don't like external links either, did you link to anything?

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: Scotty477 on May 24, 2008, 10:53:22 AM

Ebay is in a state of meltdown at the moment. They've changed several systems there and a lot of people are truly pissed off with it.

The result is that there are a few listings that are protesting the changes, which is making ebay a bit touchy with anything that even looks like it may possibly hint at perhaps being something that maybe violates listing regulations.

If you want to have a laugh go to the ebay community boards....

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: Philly Q on May 24, 2008, 11:22:47 AM

Quote from: Machinehead

If you want to have a laugh go to the ebay community boards....

I'd be interested to know what's going on, but if I look I know I'll be there forever reading all the complaints.  Life's too short...

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: Woogie on May 31, 2008, 11:32:22 AM

So we tried listing again. They pulled the Marshall again. So we rang up for 20 mins and they couldn't even tell us why.

Title: Ebay pulled my listings
Post by: Scotty477 on June 01, 2008, 05:18:09 PM

Woogie

Try using the ebay live chat. It might be quicker to get an operator at a quiet time like early morning etc

Link here;

https://cschatlb-na.corp.ebay.com/chat.asp?profile=15