Staying Out of Trouble with eBays 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 eBays 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)
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Most of this is very obvious of course you cant 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 cant
sell anything thats 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 cant sell unauthorised
pictures of celebrities; embargoed goods means that you cant
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://p
ages.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 dont 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 article is a
jargon buster, to help you learn the language of eBay. Learning the eBay Lingo
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