Cuban cards - eBay

[Leon]

Just curious if this was the seller? I picked up this card and think it could be some sort of vintage reprint. It's really hard to tell even holding it in hand.. I like the players name though...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281389978843...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT



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[Brian Van Horn]

Leon,

That is the seller.

[Exhibitman]

Nice to know eBay isn't hogging the supply of village idiots but has spread them around to its sister companies. What we need to do now is put "Cuba" into every listing.

[painthistorian]

We have experienced the most absolute moronic policy issue last 2 days regarding selling any pre 1951 Cuban League Baseball Cards, graded or ungraded. Now paypal will threaten to restrict and possibly limit your account if you have any mention of Cuba, or Cuban in your e bay listing or paypal HTMK description box..we found this out very recently without warning or knowledge, they told us to PULL listings off e bay but since e bay accepts these cards and it was less than 12 hours left, e bay refused to cancel. We have spent over 7 hours on phone talking to mostly inept people, only one very sharp paypal supervisor finally explained this....both paypal and e bay refused to resolve this as it is impossible for even them to contact paypal compliance division. They stated we have to reject any paypal payments and return them to buyer or risk further problems. This is so absurd as this is pre 1958, paypal supervisor stated this is a FEDERAL MANDATE to them and gave some federal agency as the party that requires paypal's crackdown without any knowledge of when item was produced. It even applies that if you sell an auto graphed pictured of Cuba Gooding Jr or Mark Cuban, or Cuban Missile Crisis book, they will be flagged also as the settings they use flagged and outlaw key words...welcome to 2015. They make you promise never to sell these items again and its still not totally clear as e bay still allows these cards to be sold and still requires we accept electronic method of payment (paypal) with NO warning about this policy. What a horror!

[autocentral]

This happened to me. I put "Cuba Photo" in a description of payment and they flagged me and halted activity from me (the buyer) for about 20 days. I called the very first day to resolve the problem and it took them 20 days to conclude nothing.

-Nick

[Scocs]

....and this comes AFTER we're normalizing relations with Cuba?!

If that's not bad enough, now I can't buy an 8x10 glossy of Mark Cuban on EBay? Can I buy one in Cuba...?

[Exhibitman]

Looks like the Feds got their hands on some village idiots too...

[painthistorian]

This incident really has not done any damage to us as we never lost any services, just quite inconvenient. We have refunded everyone that purchased thru e bay since we could not end early. We also gave everyone option to pay by check or MO or opt out... e bay still allows these cards to be sold but NO ELECTRONIC TRANSFERS THRU PAYPAL! of course e bay requires us to use paypal so it is quite a slippery slope but a customer can request to pay the old fashioned way and WE WILL GIVE FREE SHIPPING to anyone that bought their cards last night. I said all that in one breath!

Now about that Cuban Missile Crisis Historical Book we planned to sell, well that one goes to donation.

I took it on the chin, and for the hobby, now everyone should avoid that dreaded word on paypal!

[Peter W Thomas]

Marco's idea i am shure

[dabigyankeeman]

Wow, I have bought quite a few of the Cuban Propagandas Montiel cards made around 1946-1947 on Ebay. Neat stuff. Ridiculous to try to make people stop selling these great collectibles.

[Scocs]

Leon,

My bad. Seems like you can still sell these Cuban items on Ebay but you can't use Paypal to pay for them.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.....

Scott

[bbcardzman]

Originally Posted by Scocs

Leon,

My bad. Seems like you can still sell these Cuban items on Ebay but you can't use Paypal to pay for them.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.....

Scott

Wait a second, there was point in time where eBay made sense?
Guess I blinked cause I missed that one!

[painthistorian]

Hi everyone- Just got a notice from e bay now that "Cuba" is on the embargo list and selling any products that originalted from Cuba as of 2015, is prohibited. Also, they are not returning the final value fees for the 4 cards that I had credited the buyers since they ended, wow this is getting better! Leon, I finally took a deep breath!!!!