[Martin-Barbour]

I was bitten by this as a seller recently - it's a really bad grey area at the moment.

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I was selling some bits on eBay, they were also advertised right here in the For Sale section so I included that text in my listing "these items are advertised elsewhere..... blah blah blah...." as a courtesy to anyone viewing the items.

Anyway, someone complained to eBay and the auctions were all deleted.

I objected and asked eBay why they had been removed.

They kept on saying that including text 'like that' was against the eBay selling policy, but they couldn't point me to exactly where on their policies section it detailed this.

After many weeks it turns out that internally, eBay consider this against their policies but it's not offically stated anywhere on their website.

In my eye's it's not an official policy unless it's printed on the website.

Eventually I relisted without any problems once I'd pointed out that they had no 'official' right to delete the listings.

Items sold, everyone happy - eventually.....

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