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Posted By: warshawlaw

By your own admission you know there is no way any baseball cards are in that package, yet you feature the word baseball prominently, go into depth about the baseball card issues of Obak, and list the item in the prewar baseball card section. You have violated at least two Ebay policies I know of:

1. Key word spamming: By your own admission, you include the term baseball in the listing so that it shows up on ebay searches for baseball items even though this is not a baseball item. That is key word spamming.

2. You know that the item does not have any baseball cards in it, yet you listed it in the baseball card section rather than in the Tobbaciana section where tobacco memorabilia is supposed to go.

The unstated purpose of your actions was to cause baseball collectors to go to this listing and to bid on this item. It is likely that many novice collectors would be misled into believing there is a possibility of a baseball card in this lot. Your actions are no different than those of any other vendor of non-baseball items and/or non-card items who chooses to place his listing in the prewar baseball card section. IMHO actions like this constitute unfair trade practices subject to legal action under California's unfair trade practices laws.

Please consider your listing selections more carefully next time.