posted on July 29, 2006 06:21:03 PM new
It seems that eBay is now removing About Me pages that contain links to your outside Internet store. Mine was removed (I promptly put it back up) and so were a few others. It would seem that despite the fact that we've been allowed to do this, they've decided since people are shutting down their stores right and left, to change the rules without telling anyone.
They can shut mine down, but I'm going to keep putting it back up until they show me where in the rule book it states I cannot do this on my About Me page. I didn't even get notice that they had done it. A customer notified me. Then, I went onto one of eBay's boards to read that I'm not the only one they did it to.
posted on July 29, 2006 06:29:51 PM new
About Me Guidelines
The About Me page may not promote outside-of-eBay sales or prohibited items, nor may it contain links to commercial Web sites where goods from multiple sellers are aggregated by a common search engine. See Additional Information to learn more about links from your About Me page.
Violations of this policy may result in a range of actions, including:
AboutMe page removal
Listing cancellation
Limits on account privileges
Account suspension
Forfeit of eBay fees on cancelled listings
Loss of PowerSeller status
Additional Information Hide
Links from your About Me Page
You may link to your own Web store or Web site. However, you may not directly offer any non-eBay merchandise on the About Me page itself.
eBay does not permit its users to place the following types of links on your About Me pages:
Links that directly offer any non-eBay listing or merchandise on the About Me page itself.
Links to other online trading sites or pages, including auctions and fixed-price formats.
Links to sites offering the same merchandise for the same or lower price (including the Buy It Now price).
Links to sites offering merchandise or information not permitted on eBay
On your About Me page, you may link to your own Web site or individual Internet store where you are offering to trade, sell or purchase your goods or services. However, you may not link to any page within online trading sites that offer goods from multiple sellers either in a fixed price or auction format.
Learn more about the About Me page at: http://pages.ebay.com/help/feedback/about_me.html
posted on July 29, 2006 06:35:46 PM newOn your About Me page, you may link to your own Web site or individual Internet store where you are offering to trade, sell or purchase your goods or services. However, you may not link to any page within online trading sites that offer goods from multiple sellers either in a fixed price or auction format.
Then, I was in compliance.
Cheryl
[ edited by cblev65252 on Jul 29, 2006 06:36 PM ]
posted on July 29, 2006 07:42:04 PM new
cheryl ... read this part:
"The About Me page may not promote outside-of-eBay sale' ....
I had been thru this before with ebay, and it is COMPLETELY the verbage you use when you mention your 'site' .... you can't "invite" you can just "say" you have a website ... it's a thin line and a really gray area ('specially when ebay is judge and jury)
posted on July 29, 2006 07:46:47 PM new
My link is the same that Vendio uses where it links to a page that shows all my Ebay listings with the Vendio navigation link on the left side.
If it is OK inside my listing, then it should be OK on my About Me page.
I do have some wording there about moving to another site, but I don't mention it by name.
posted on July 29, 2006 08:13:13 PM new
Thanks for the clarification, Tom & Aintrichyet. I noticed on some store hosted sites this distinction was not made. Slime and more slime on eBay! I thought About Me was a 'safe page'.
[ edited by pixiamom on Jul 29, 2006 08:14 PM ]
posted on July 29, 2006 10:59:12 PM new
When someone goes into my webpage to have a look they will see a link to my auctions on ebay. If they use the link and go to my auctions and stores and buy from the store or bid on an auction, i get a credit of about half the fees. SO They clearly know about the link on my about me page as well.
posted on July 30, 2006 06:47:33 AM new
Would this comply with Ebay rules about linking?
If I have a link on my About Me page to a one-page website. That page then has a click here to see my widgets. And another click here to my gadgets. Just the links and no items for sale.
I am thinking of doing something like this as my new business plan involves keeping my items split and having two or three stores each specializing in one type of item.
This way my customers can just click on the link that carries the products they are interested in.
Isn't there a two-link rule such as the links that Vendio uses to link to Vendio stores?
posted on July 30, 2006 01:49:20 PM new
I thought you could put that link Vendio provides for Vendio stores on your Me page. When I had a Vendio store I did what Vendio said was within ebay's rules. Shows Ebay auctions first and the sidebar for viewing the rest in the Vendio store???
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posted on July 30, 2006 05:20:50 PM newOn your About Me page, you may link to your own Web site or individual Internet store where you are offering to trade, sell or purchase your goods or services.
The About Me page may not promote outside-of-eBay sales
Ok Ebay, which is it? Looks like a lot of democrat flip flopping to me. First, you can sell outside of ebay, then you cannot.
