Restricted items on eBay

Click on Help at the top of the eBay home page...you should get a pop-up. Look to the bottom left, you should see a link for "Contact Us". Click there, and click on the section for reporting restricted items. ^_^ Hope that helps you out!

*~samuraiblossom~*

I keep this page bookmarked:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/investigates.html

Then all I have to do is go down past "Here's how to report specific trading offenses" and click on the #4 item. Then log in and select your issue.

Ebay is sure making it harder and harder for experienced eBayers to report such occurances.. I already know all the BS let me report them! LOL

ebay is too restrictive as it is. Unless they are selling endangered animal skins or something of that nature, I'm not so sure you should report anything.

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thinbuddha posted: ebay is too restrictive as it is. Unless they are selling endangered animal skins or something of that nature, I'm not so sure you should report anything.

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For the most part I just ignore any offensive or strange listings I come across...however, I did report one auction a few years ago.

I was bored one day and just looking under the 'weird items' category (or whatever it is called) and there was an auction for "little girl's used panties" - that just crossed too many lines for me. What made it really appalling was the number of bids that had already been placed on it. Thankfully, eBay yanked it pretty quickly. I'm not sure how responsive they are these days.

WarriorNun

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning"

Yeah- I think anything that caters to that particular crowd should be pulled.

I was more thinking along the lines of some Playboy magazines that I tried to sell a couple years back that they pulled without any explanation (several other playboys are constantly being sold on ebay in the same category ("Playboy magazines") or some such thing, so I never really did figure out what the problem was. No pictures with nudity were shown- just the covers (or nothing if the cover displayed nudity) yet they pulled the auctions anyway.

THATS what I mean by saying they are too quick to pull auctions.

I'm often surprised at what gets pulled and what let through. I once imagined that eBay kept an eye on it for themselves but the erratic nature of their attentions indicates that perhaps they ONLY respond if there's a complaint. I'm not easily offended (except perhaps for items like that mentioned above), believing in "each to his/her own". I have been surprised sometimes at some of the items I have seen, but like Warriornun, I just pass on. There's plenty to interest me.

I deeply distrust those who would set themselves up as moral guardians for the rest of us, however.

GG

I tried to report something to ebay once that looked to me like copyright infringement. Someone had made gift tags using celebrity images. It was pretty obvious they were handmade. Ebay's reply to me said they only pull the auctions if someone affiliated with the celebrity tells them to. These particular tags were of country singers Faith Hill, George Strait and some others. Basically someone connected to Faith Hill would have to contact Ebay and tell them to pull it. It looks to me like it's a free for all when selling and if you don't get caught ebay won't pull it.

Thanks for the help and replies. The item I wanted to report was a "lot" of "different" prescription drugs. There were a lot of bids and most of the bidders had 0 feedback. So I was fearful that kids under 18 were trying to get them. Anyways, it's gone now so for once eBay did their job lol.

Take care,
~Shannon :-)~

I must admit that that is one I wouldn't have been to happy about either. Whether I'd have reported it I really can't say but I think you probably did the right thing.

GG