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Staying Out of Trouble
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Staying Out of Trouble with eBay's Listing
Policies.
While you can sell most things on eBay, quite a
few things are banned. If you try to sell any of these things
then eBay will remove your auction and all bids will be
void.
Here is eBay's full list of prohibited or
questionable items:
Academic Software
Airline and Transit Related
Items
Alcohol (also see Wine)
Animals and Wildlife
Products
Anti-circumvention
Policy
Artifacts
Authenticity Disclaimers
Autographed
Items
Batteries
Beta Software
Bootleg
Recordings
Brand Name Misuse
Catalog Sales
Catalytic
Converters and Test Pipes
Celebrity Material
Charity or
Fundraising Listings
Comparison Policy
Compilation and
Informational Media
Contracts and Tickets
Counterfeit
Currency and Stamps
Counterfeit Items
Credit
Cards
Downloadable Media
Drugs & Drug
Paraphernalia
Electronics Equipment
Embargoed Goods and
Prohibited Countries
Encouraging Infringement
Policy
Event Tickets
Faces, Names and
Signatures
Firearms, Ammunition, Replicas, and
Militaria
Fireworks
Food
Freon and Other
Refrigerants
Gift Cards
Government IDs and
Licenses
Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable
Items
Human Parts and Remains
Importation of Goods into
the United States
International Trading -
Buyers
International Trading - Sellers
Lockpicking
Devices
Lottery Tickets
Mailing Lists and Personal
Information
Manufacturers' Coupons
Mature
Audiences
Medical Devices
Misleading Titles
Mod
Chips, Game Enhancers, and Boot Discs
Movie
Prints
Multi-level Marketing, Pyramid and Matrix
Programs
OEM Software
Offensive
Material
Pesticides
Plants and Seeds
Police-Related
Items
Political Memorabilia
Postage Meters
Pre-Sale
Listings
Prescription Drugs and Devices
Promotional
Items
Real Estate
Recalled Items
Recordable
Media
Replica and Counterfeit Items
Satellite and Cable
TV Descramblers
Slot Machines
Stocks and Other
Securities
Stolen Property
Surveillance
Equipment
Tobacco
Travel
Unauthorized Copies
Used
Clothing
Warranties
Weapons & Knives
Wine (also
see Alcohol)
Most of this is very obvious - of course you
can't sell illegal things like drugs, pyramid schemes or
stolen goods. Almost everything that is on the list is there
because there is law against selling it. Some of the reasons,
though, are a little strange.
The 'autographed items' entry, for example,
doesn't mean that you can't sell anything that's been
autographed - it just means that you can only sell it if it
comes with a certificate of authenticity. The 'artifacts'
entry prohibits you from selling Native American graves;
'celebrity material' means you can't sell unauthorised
pictures of celebrities; 'embargoed goods' means that you
can't sell anything that comes from Cuba… on and on it goes,
and most of it you never need to know.
If your chosen kind of item seems to be on the
list, though, and you're concerned that you might not be able
to sell it, then check the full list at http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html
to see whether the item is banned entirely or there are just a
few restrictions.
eBay says it will remove any items that it
believes violate copyright law, but in reality they don't have
that many people to monitor the site. You will generally only
find that your auction gets removed if someone decides to
report you - and even then, they might not get around to
it.
Really, buying and selling on eBay can sometimes
feel more complicated than it really is, thanks to all the
rules surrounding it - not to mention the jargon. Our next
email is a 'jargon buster', to help you learn the language of
eBay. |