selling e-mods don't understand rules on e Bay

[seminolewind]

My collection of used mechanical mods was cancelled, and EBay's excuse was that tobacco, non tobacco, e-cigarettes and accessories etc are not allowed to be sold on e Bay. So why are there thousands of e-cigs, mods, and accessories and clearomizers for sale there? What am I doing wrong?

 

[JaRod]

its probably a misspelling Tobacco is banned, the clone brand is Tobeco, spelled differently.......

 

[State O' Flux]

You need to place your issue in a context that allows for a bit of "outside scrutiny"... meaning, us.

Certainly not an eBay expert on these matters but, what did you order... can you link the auction number(s)? Have those items been re-listed or removed from the auctions? How did you pay... did you say "vaping" or worse, "e-cigarette" anywhere in the payment text?

I know the "morally flexible" - and yet always in eBay's (and by extension Paypal's) favor - sales end up far from equitable... but key words can really set off alarm bells more with payment options than with the listings themselves.

 

[seminolewind]

I chose words from other ads. I can even use their search words to get to them. I'll have to study my buzz words, I guess. I relisted.

 

[State O' Flux]

I must apologize. When I read your post, I didn't see that you were a seller... rather a buyer. Some of what I said still applies, and some not.

Considering the number of vape products listed on eBay, why they would go after you is a complete mystery... unless your terms, by their "rules", were so obvious that they had no alternative.
I'm presuming that eBay has some sort or moral compass on these matters... probably not a safe presumption. ;-)

 

[mostlyclassics]

eBay is absolutely incompetent when it comes to enforcing their own delisting regulations.

About 12 years ago, I listed some Finnish postcards of World War II vintage. In addition to the Germans, the Finns also used a swastika in their roundels (aircraft national markings), but the Finnish version was upright and light blue, while the German version was cocked 45 degrees and black. One card showed a German Messerschmitt Bf-109 in tail view bearing down on a Finnish Brewster Buffalo in side view. No swastikas were visible on the German plane because of the angle, while the Finnish plane's fuselage roundel was clearly visible. Needless to say, I made no mention of a swastika in my text.

Within 12 hours, the eBay regulation ferrets had pulled the auction and told me that if I tried to relist it, I would be NARUed (the eBay version of a death sentence).

On that same day, on eBay I found listed a whole bunch of postcards bearing pictures of Adolf Hitler. Some of them even showed his swastika armband.

Were those pulled? Of course not. Go figger.

 

[seminolewind]

I must apologize. When I read your post, I didn't see that you were a seller... rather a buyer. Some of what I said still applies, and some not.

Considering the number of vape products listed on eBay, why they would go after you is a complete mystery... unless your terms, by their "rules", were so obvious that they had no alternative.
I'm presuming that eBay has some sort or moral compass on these matters... probably not a safe presumption. ;-)

No apologies.
I think it is a play on words. I know I had e-cig in there. I took that out. Now I look at other ads and see the buzz words, LOL.