Ebay canceled my Auction

[Mike D]

That's what I thought......... a word program.
A recent seller, who's auction has ended had answered questions whether his stock has the M2 cut out.
The seller responded in the Q and A section that when trying to preview his listing before submitting it, it kept getting rejected because of having M2 in the wording.
I seen it in his Q and A section.....it was there.....but now I can't find it using a search of completed auctions under the heading... M1 carbine stock.

Bottom line;
Be vague. Post good pictures. Most will know what your item is. If not they can use the Ask Questions Option.

Charlie

Heres the auction, its not over yet. M1 A1 Carbine Paratrooper Folding Stock ALL ORIGINAL - eBay (item 130360468794 end time Jan-26-10 20:28:10 PST)

[Mike Haas]

Heres the auction, its not over yet. M1 A1 Carbine Paratrooper Folding Stock ALL ORIGINAL - eBay (item 130360468794 end time Jan-26-10 20:28:10 PST)

Well..I'll be damx'xx...I sure have learn'ed a few things about posting on eBay. I'm gonna watch that one just to see if it makes it all the way.

[Mike D]

I was really surprised when I recently found out you could put additional pics from photobucket on your auction. The photobucket pics pop up right below the ebay pics! Does ebay own photobucket too?

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Well I called ebay again today and insisted the call handler bump me to a supervisor. He was dumb as Mud-Hen to so I requested another bump to the next level supervisor.

This guy actually pulled up,.. my "pulled auction". He then explained the word " slide" in my Title and description caused my auction to be sent to Cyber Heaven.

His advice...don't be to specific... "we don't look at the pictures unless the word content alerts us".

Telling Mike don't be specific only goes to show that they don't care about what the items are, just the money they get for selling them.

Their higher then now airs about right and wrong really only come down to the mighty dollar.

[Wulf]

Do any of you remember when ebay started you could list guns? They also dealt in pornography at that time and maybe still do.

eBAy still does have tons of listings for graphic porn and "toys". I'll never understand the liberal mind and how it functions. It is very much a conundrum.

[FTD1167]

I have had success with 3 day auctions. for slides,bolts and internals.
Have it end on Sunday, by Monday its too late..
I don't know if it software they use, or go by complaints.
Seems like 3 days is not enough time to get the ball rolling.

[MORB]

Do any of you remember when ebay started you could list guns? They also dealt in pornography at that time and maybe still do.

I canceled my ebay membership when they banded firearms and parts. They tried to talk me out of it and said that the firearms and parts could be used to kill someone. I mentioned to them about all the porn and bondage stuff they allowed to be sold could cause someone to be raped...I never got a response and my membership was canceled.

[Bill Hollinger]

I have thought about putting up for auction a stuffed teddy bear and in the listing use words like "machine gun", "bomb", "hand grenade", "ammunition", "complete fire arm", you know, just to throw them in a loop!

Are they really holding PayPal funds until feedback is received? What BS!

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Are they really holding PayPal funds until feedback is received? What BS!

I wondered the same thing Bill. I haven't sold anything on eBay for a while.

Can anyone confirm this?

It was bad enough when eBay decided you couldn't leave a negative for a buyer who wouldn't pay, or didn't pay for many weeks and made up silly excuses or didn't answer emails. I gave up on selling things on eBay because it was so hard trying to get paid to end the deal, and I did everything I could to be polite, prompt, sent the item the same day they paid, answer and send emails etc.

Now they are holding funds???? Sounds crazy.

[Mike Haas]

I wondered the same thing Bill. I haven't sold anything on eBay for a while.

Can anyone confirm this?

It was bad enough when eBay decided you couldn't leave a negative for a buyer who wouldn't pay, or didn't pay for many weeks and made up silly excuses or didn't answer emails. I gave up on selling things on eBay because it was so hard trying to get paid to end the deal, and I did everything I could to be polite, prompt, sent the item the same day they paid, answer and send emails etc.

Now they are holding funds???? Sounds crazy.

Cafdfw and Bill - I've sold 14 items this month - 13 reloading tool components and one rifle stock. All were paid via PayPal immediately with no delay.
I did have one item in Dec (?) that was a E-check through P-P that was delayed five days until it cleared the buyers bank. P-P notified me when the e-check cleared.

HTH..Mike