Ebay

[Angst]

hi everyone....i just had a listing removed by ebay for 'knives' policy breach....of course my listing in no way shows a knife blade or states a knife is for sale....i've had this before with them and it was overturned.

so....i just spoke in chat with a rep....i'm livid....and am now typing up first draft to trading standards...

and i'd like everyone elses similar issues please if possible...

regards

s

 

[ammo]

Do you want me to email you, or them, I won't rant Sonni, just explain the lack of common sense. Let me know mate.

 

[rancid badger]

Well, what were you trying to sell?

I sold a few knife sheaths on there just after their ban and came up against automated stops but got round those, both very easily and well within their "rules"


Steve

 

[rik_uk3]

What was the wording you used in the sale?

 

[Angst]

hi....

badger....a sheath.....
rik....nothing wrong with my wording

i've been through this before with them. just phoned them up and went pretty nuclear. its been overturned once again and my listing reinstated....but please continue to contribute to the thread because trust me if it happens again it will be ''Tribunal MarkII''.

regards and thanks,

s

 

[BearInTheWoods]

They've also banned the sale of reloading equipment, can't follow that one as the only restricted items used in loading, are expanding projectiles and primers. Seems a bit barmy to me.

 

[rik_uk3]

It may be worth looking at http://www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=bushcraft&view_type=gallery&ship_to=GB I think Ian sells on there.

 

[Hibrion]

I had similar problems as a buyer years back before I was making my own leather stuff. I wanted to buy an unusual sheath for a buck 110 and because the listing had the word 'knife' in it, I could not. I had the same problem recently when I tried to buy a set of scales. Because they were listed as 'knife' scales they were down as a prohibited item according to ebay.

I spoke with them and they were beyond unhelpful in the matter. I think they just use a bot to scan listing with certain words and stop people in the UK and Ireland from buying them.

 

[BearInTheWoods]

I spoke with them and they were beyond unhelpful in the matter. I think they just use a bot to scan listing with certain words and stop people in the UK and Ireland from buying them.

I wish somebody would set up a grown-up version, where one could auction cutlery and other edged tools, firearms, ammunition etc. I had a pile of .22 hollowpoints to get rid of, in the end I had to just give them away to someone.

 

[AndyD]

I wish somebody would set up a grown-up version, where one could auction cutlery and other edged tools, firearms, ammunition etc. I had a pile of .22 hollowpoints to get rid of, in the end I had to just give them away to someone.

www.specialistauctions.com

 

[BearInTheWoods]

www.specialistauctions.com

Cheers, they need to promote it a bit though.

 

[munkiboi182]

www.specialistauctions.com

Just had a quick look through and someone is selling a dead frog in the weird and unusual section!

 

[Dave-the-rave]

£4.99 for a dead frog aint half bad really. If it's a toad it's a steal.

 

[mountainm]

It's funny, knives are banned but help yourself to a billhook, slasher or an axe....

 

[rancid badger]

Things must have been buxxered about with since I sold my stuff on there. It was certainly just after the ban and, as I say, the automatic stuff kicked in but I was easily able to "explain" to the system that I was selling sheaths not knives.

 

[BearInTheWoods]

It's funny, knives are banned but help yourself to a billhook, slasher or an axe....

Or indeed a baseball bat. Funny how they're hypersensitive to the militant possibilities of a penknife but unaware of those of the favourite club of the British street hooligan.

 

[Salaud]

I spent over 4 hours on the phone to eBay, talking with everyone from Ireland to India and just about everywhere in between in an attempt to resolve a problem.... The end result is a name which as I say took around 4 hours to get, but you are welcome to it, Ralph Brown he is a manager at eBay, they still give you a run around rather than put you through to him, but nowhere near as much hassle as dealing with the underlings, just insist on speaking to him, he works only from Wednesday to Sunday..
Good luck..

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[Zingmo]

I think Lurch hit the nail on the head. ..
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=701600

Z

 

[Stew]

I wish somebody would set up a grown-up version, where one could auction cutlery and other edged tools, firearms, ammunition etc. I had a pile of .22 hollowpoints to get rid of, in the end I had to just give them away to someone.

Although not auction, there is Gunstar.

http://www.gunstar.co.uk/

 

[British Red]

Also look at

http://www.guntrader.co.uk/

Red