So I recently had a couple of movies listed that ebay removed due to a supposed infraction of their restricted items policy. The problem is, my listing was for an R rated movie. If you haven't looked at the movies section in ebay for a while, they have a filter for R rated movies. As of today, 895k+ strong. They actually have one for NC-17 as well. The meaning is that they accept these movies as being qualified for listing, otherwise why have the filter? Gruv, the company that gets their own logo next to their search results, has more of these movies than anybody.
I tried 4 times via chat to ask an ebay customer support agent what was going on and you can imagine how far I got. Mostly I heard that ebay has prohibited R rated movies, which is preposterous of course. They kept telling me R rated movies are prohibited even though the policy doesn't state this and that I should have checked with ebay on a movie-by-movie basis, which is ludicrous given the 895,000 R rated movies out there on the site. And how I was supposed to know to do that is beyond me and my admittedly limited psychic abilities.
I was hung up on both in chat and on the phone. I have a feeling the item was targeted simply because of the title- The Erotic Misadventures of the Invisible Man. But still, they can only get away with so much and maintain an R rating. Meanwhile, Striptease, Orgazmo, Showgirls, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre NC-17 version are all over the place (as a reminder, with a specific NC-17 filter). One of the reps told me that ebay was going to be removing all R-rated movies. I have serious doubts about this, but you never know with ebay.
I was also told not to list unrated movies (there is also a filter for that), even after mentioning that Dora the Explorer is unrated. Has anyone else heard anything about this nonsense?
