posted on July 13, 2001 02:32:35 PM
Earlier I had posted the same question regarding a business that has fairly high feedback and many on going auctions. Without thinking I posted a direct link to the auction. Well Smitty, the moderator, doing his/her job pulled the offending thread and sent me an email pointing out my evil deed. I am sorry for the offense. Never happen again.
My reason for the post was to find out if a VERY LARGE Ad and email links were within the rules of ebay. You see sometimes I am not sure and I suspect that there might be others who are unsure of the posting guidelines of ebay. I wanted to see what kind of answers I would get. Well there were seven (maybe 8) responses before Smitty did his/her job. I think it was 5 saying there were problems, 2 saying no problems. Within the (5) problem answers there were some who said so what, I agree, so what if they don’t follow all of the over the top rules of ebay. IMHO, I wouldn’t care if there were naked dancing people on the page, but ebay does have rules. Do they apply them equally? Fill in the blank.
I asked ebay the same question and got the following reply:
Subject:
Re: What are eBay's listing policies? (Community Watch)
Hello (name),
Thank you for contacting eBay about the listing #xxxxxxx. I
apologize for the delay in getting back to you.
Upon review of the information that you have provided, we have
determined that the seller has violated eBay policy. I wanted to let you
know that I have warned the member against any future activity of this
type. Since this is a first violation, the current auctions will be
allowed to continue to their scheduled end.
For more information on our listing guidelines, please visit our policy
page at the following URL:
We appreciate your continued help in keeping eBay a safe and fair place
to trade! Thank you for being part of the eBay community.
Regards,
Phoebe
eBay Community Watch Team
______________________________
eBay
Your Personal Trading Community (tm)
Fair enough, first time offense. Not to mention that ebay stands to make some nice FVFs on the 122 auctions that are running. I have read of smaller people having their auctions ended right away for violating the rules, first time offenders.
I guess I should change this header to “Does ebay play by their rules?”.
.As a collector of “TENNIS RACKETS” I just came across an auction that just did not look like it belonged, according to the rules. I am not a ebay cop, as was suggested in the deleted thread, just a seller and a buyer who wanted to ask a question. Sorry for the long post. Thanks Smitty.
