Kit Young and eBay... problems?

[D. Bergin]

Ebay has installed so many mundane rules to their listings that it's hard to keep track sometimes.

Recently I had a bunch of auctions I scheduled bounced back to me because I used an old template I forgot to update the wording to, and it included the phrase, "Please don't bid if you don't agree with the shipping rates and terms", or something of that nature.

In Ebay's opinion it is now against the rules to discourage bidding from buyers you think might cause you trouble.

They say it's for my own good, so who am I to argue?

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Ebay has installed so many mundane rules to their listings that it's hard to keep track sometimes.

Recently I had a bunch of auctions I scheduled bounced back to me because I used an old template I forgot to update the wording to, and it included the phrase, "Please don't bid if you don't agree with the shipping rates and terms", or something of that nature.

In Ebay's opinion it is now against the rules to discourage bidding from buyers you think might cause you trouble.

They say it's for my own good, so who am I to argue?

haha - that's great.

I had an auction pulled because it was for an old pack of baseball cigarettes. I added a disclaimer indicating that you should absolutely never smoke opened packs of 80-yr old cheap cigarettes that had been chewed on by bugs.

Another got pulled because I mentioned that a pool cue had an ivory joint. Now I state that it's a bone-like material commonly found in hard items on animals that grow out of their heads.

It's important to note that most of the time when you have an auction pulled, it's because someone who has a hard-on for you has alerted ebay - ebay is all about the $$$ and will overlook most things unless their hand is forced.

[steve B]

Yeah, a friend of mine had an item pulled. They said it was Nazi memorabilia.

He called and asked if they'd looked at it before pulling it or at all. They hadn't, but looked then. It was a Marlin Arms matchbook from WWII showing a US soldier bayoneting and stepping on a Nazi flag....

They let him relist for free.

Steve B

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by steve B

Yeah, a friend of mine had an item pulled. They said it was Nazi memorabilia.

He called and asked if they'd looked at it before pulling it or at all. They hadn't, but looked then. It was a Marlin Arms matchbook from WWII showing a US soldier bayoneting and stepping on a Nazi flag....

They let him relist for free.

Steve B

I broke up one of those 1936 German Olympic Card sets a few years ago, and all the cards picturing Hitler were pulled and I was warned.

I didn't care enough to complain and ended up just tossing them aside or throwing them in a junk lot or something.

[barrysloate]

Steve-I don't know why the term "catalog value" shut it down (it was in fact a coin listing), but that is what she told me. Maybe she wasn't being entirely truthful, who knows.

[steve B]

Unless it's a category thing. I know each category has its own manager. Maybe their coin guy doesn't believe in catalogs? Or more likely in a particular catalog.

In stamps the Scott catalogs are the primary source of pricing unless something is particularly nice. The bit of time I spent doing coins I recall the catalogs weren't as strong a force. Maybe because at the time there were a few of them? Coin world? the weekly newspaperish one, coin prices, the red book, plus two or three other magazines.

Steve B

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Steve-I don't know why the term "catalog value" shut it down (it was in fact a coin listing), but that is what she told me. Maybe she wasn't being entirely truthful, who knows.

[RobertGT]

Likely because Kit Young included a link to his website (where the card can also be purchased) in the listing or invoice. Ebay is clamping down on any efforts to redirect buyers away from its site and massive fees for sellers.