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I had this print ad pulled down for being offensive. I made no mention of Aunt Jemima in the title or description and just had it listed as "Mills Branch Buckwheat Flour Ad 1927" or something to that effect and I wasn't selling it for any more or less than any other add I listed from that 1927 magazine.
Yet there are hundreds of other items online, including empty boxes of Uncle Bens Rice and bottles of actual Aunt Jemima still active if you search for that term.
It's all random bots and/or people being petty when we are in a world right now with much larger problems than a 94 year old piece of paper offending someone.
This is an actual listing on eBay right now below which should violate expired goods policy as well but that's where we are right now with how uneven things are.
@slippinjimmy wrote:
@mtgraves7984 wrote:
Exactly to your first point... no rhyme or reason.
Oh, I only asked the OP that because I wondered where eBay stood on it after it slipped through, yet they'd been paid.
Nothing happens, the transaction is done and complete.
The takedown is still noted in your file, same as a Vero takedown that happens after a sale.
I believe buyers of removed items also get a message from ebay telling them that the item was removed "for a policy violation."
Ebay doesn't give specifics of the nature of the violation but I'd like to assume that buyers might ask questiosn. (I've seen sold counterfeit items removed and I hope those removals trigger buyers to question authenticity and hopefully, file for MBG.)
@tdl_collectibles wrote:I had this print ad pulled down for being offensive. I made no mention of Aunt Jemima in the title or description and just had it listed as "Mills Branch Buckwheat Flour Ad 1927" or something to that effect and I wasn't selling it for any more or less than any other add I listed from that 1927 magazine.
Yet there are hundreds of other items online, including empty boxes of Uncle Bens Rice and bottles of actual Aunt Jemima still active if you search for that term.
It's all random bots and/or people being petty when we are in a world right now with much larger problems than a 94 year old piece of paper offending someone.
This is an actual listing on eBay right now below which should violate expired goods policy as well but that's where we are right now with how uneven things are.
I believe it’s the images of ‘happy slaves’ that caused your item to be removed.
It’s not just the ‘Aunt Jemima’ image that became banned … but images of any grinning woman in a slave costume, which many would consider an offensive oxymoron. Anyway, that’s my guess.
