posted on November 10, 2000 02:15:51 AM new
ALL my auctions are gone!!
where did they go--what happened--they are nowhere!! and it says i am selling nothing!! I had about 30 items listed and it says I am selling nothing when I look to see what i am selling --will they come back ? has this happened to anyone else no letter no nothing -- but i did try and relist and it let me-- then i checked my account and it is still active
posted on November 10, 2000 08:12:43 AM new
This may be obvious - but have you checked your closed auctions? Don't forget to do so through "My Auctions" as doing so in any other way will only bring up those closed auctions which had bids.
posted on November 11, 2000 01:16:46 PM new
I thought they killed that bug months ago.
I've had listings go up in smoke also.
But checking closed and sold is good advice.
Sometimes they find their own way home.
Sometimes they go to Texas,
posted on November 11, 2000 06:11:05 PM new
Only one of mine is gone: Cancelled by Yahoo.
It was Microsoft DOS 4.1 from the mid 80's on 5.25" floppys, in a plastic case. Microsoft doesn't support that any more and they are not useful to anybody. They were offered to the Microsoft collectors that I've sold many items to in the past.
So what's transpired so far is what you can expect to get with the machine yahoo has in place. Since the cancel notice warned that further infractions could result in my suspension, I was anxious to find out why this was cancelled. Should I pull my other Microsoft collectables? What about my other used software, mostly games? All the notice did was tell me to read Yahoo TOS.
So I replied to that notice at the address it was sent from, and they told me to ask Microsoft. Well, I did and I've been bounced around there without a decision, but my question is, if Yahoo doesn't know why I was cancelled, how did it happen?
Is this one of those Neighborhood Watch things where the Possee objects enough to get you automatically cancelled? Or did a real human, perhaps under pressure from Microsoft, routinely delete any auction which mentioned an operating system?
There are subcategories in the listing tree especially for Microsft products including their OS's. Is this just for sellers peddling new Microsoft OS's? How can that be? I just browsed a bit under the subcategory for Windows 2000 and there were several auctions offering it for $2.
And I searched for the pirate phrase "section 117" and just got 448 hits. So somebody tell me how it was this $5 item of old Microsoft disks got pulled and by whom?
I think it would be appropriate to say if Yahoo deletes an auction for a violation by the seller, and thus threaten the suspension of one's account, which in my case would cost me hundreds of hours in time already spent and $1000's of dollars in future revenue, they could at least explain why and leave recourse to a real person at yahoo, rather than just another Yahoobot.
posted on November 11, 2000 07:30:50 PM new
zzyzx000 -
Just a guess, but it probably has to do with selling OEM software without hardware which Microsoft prohibits. Not that I agree with it and there has been much discussion on the Ebay boards about wether or not it is actually legal, but that's my guess as to why it was closed.
