What have you had removed from EBay ?

charlies_mum

Following my thread about how I have had a three day listing restriction for listing items prohibited by EBay, I thought it would be useful to have a thread warning others

These are what I have had removed and the reason why :

Vintage Truncheon under the firearms and weapons restriction
Boxed cake / bread knife in the same category
Sabatier knife block with knives in the same category
Vintage man from uncle cap gun in the same category

German uniform cloth badge under the offensive / racism category
Golly badges in the same category

Sure there are more and if I remember them I will list them

What items have others had removed ?

edwink

Electronic cigs were removed


E-cigs vaping liquid

E-cig itself

E-cig Menthol flavour

soolin

14 years ago a Dirty Dancing Video for being 'adult'

Victorian brass toasting fork.
German military medal
Boxed fruit knives

I've had other things and when I remember them all I'll add them.

charlies_mum

Vintage playboy magazines. Anything pre 1980 is fine. We bought loads of playboy stuff that I think was an ex bunny girls's and made loads on some employee manuals.

Contains_Mild_Peril

It's difficult to keep up when they keep changing the rules: kitchen knives and golliwog badges are among many items which used to be allowed. Listings I've had removed:

Leather jacket, because I used the phrase "Fight Club" in the title to describe the style, thus violating eBay's keyword spamming policy (I know better now).

A handbag which I had described as a "Kelly bag", not realising that Kelly bag is a trademark - I thought it was just a generic term for that style of bag, comparable to "Gladstone bag" (my own fault for not checking, but in my defence, I've seen many other non-Hermes bags sold on eBay and elsewhere as Kelly bags).

A bundle of carrier bags from various posh shops (one each). I think that was removed under the VeRO Programme, on the grounds that any type of packaging with a brand name on it could hypothetically be used to sell fake goods.

Novelty pocket tissues printed one one side with a banknote design, forbidden under eBay's counterfeit currency policy!

charlies_mum

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote: »

It's difficult to keep up when they keep changing the rules: kitchen knives and golliwog badges are among many items which used to be allowed. Listings I've had removed:

Leather jacket, because I used the phrase "Fight Club" in the title to describe the style, thus violating eBay's keyword spamming policy (I know better now).

A handbag which I had described as a "Kelly bag", not realising that Kelly bag is a trademark - I thought it was just a generic term for that style of bag, comparable to "Gladstone bag" (my own fault for not checking, but in my defence, I've seen many other non-Hermes bags sold on eBay and elsewhere as Kelly bags).

A bundle of carrier bags from various posh shops (one each). I think that was removed under the VeRO Programme, on the grounds that any type of packaging with a brand name on it could hypothetically be used to sell fake goods.

Novelty pocket tissues printed one one side with a banknote design, forbidden under eBay's counterfeit currency policy!

So glad you mentioned the tissues. I have seen them in the past and considered listing them

jeffuk

Selection of old Sudanese postage stamps.

mrcol1000

Have had cotton bags which were dustbags for famous handbag brand. They were genuine and selling them as cotton bags but got removed due to Vero. Bummer as had a large amount of them but managed to sell at a proper auction house.

Also a couple of collectible transport related badges for being government uniforms. After advice from Ebay managed to relist and successfully sell with a big disclaimer saying they were not current uniform and the organisation no longer existed.

soolin

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Have had cotton bags which were dustbags for famous handbag brand. They were genuine and selling them as cotton bags but got removed due to Vero. Bummer as had a large amount of them but managed to sell at a proper auction house.

Also a couple of collectible transport related badges for being government uniforms. After advice from Ebay managed to relist and successfully sell with a big disclaimer saying they were not current uniform and the organisation no longer existed.

Collectable transport badges? Oh heck......they are something I almost always have in stock and listed on and off.

charlies_mum

jeffuk wrote: »

Selection of old Sudanese postage stamps.

Why ???? There are a few things coming up that I really don't understand

theonlywayisup

charlies_mum wrote: »

Why ???? There are a few things coming up that I really don't understand

this is helpful http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/items-ov.html and

this will help explain about embargoed countries, Sudan being one.

We don't allow items on our site if they fall under the embargo regulations with the following countries. Since we can't determine when an item was removed from a specific country, we don't permit items that claim to be pre-embargo:
Burma (Myanmar) – only jadeite and rubies are prohibited
Cuba
Iran
North Korea
Sudan
Syria
We also don't allow organisations, businesses, or individuals from these countries to have or register accounts while based in these countries.
We don't allow organisations, business or individuals on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) list to have register accounts.
You can review the most up-to-date list of sanctions-affected countries, organisations, and individuals by visiting the Office of Foreign Assets Control website.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/embargo.html