The person who said that the answer is, there are Ebay employees (who have the 'clout' to get peoples' listings pulled & repremanded) who ARE sellers themselves, and either they or their cohorts sell all they want and go untouched, is 100% correct. Watch any of the "how to ship" videos Ebay posts: "Hi, I'm Amber....an Ebay employee, but I'm ALSO a seller too....and here's how I package (blah, blah)". If it looks like *it, smells like *it, feels like *it, and tastes like *it...then it's a good thing you didn't step in it. I've been selling eliquid on here (with another user name) for 5 years (never with ONE drop of nicotine in any of it) and my listings have been pulled plenty of times. I've also been 'restricted' despite Ebay and PayPal making about $350 a month off me on a regular basis. THERE IS NO LAW, NOR CAN ANYONE LEGALLY PROSECUTE YOU (nor are stupid enough to try) FOR SELLING ANYONE FLAVORED VEGETABLE GLYCERINE. That's ALL that eliquid is, except for the nicotine in it....which "IS" tobacco, and should be regulated. Eliquid minus the nicotine is a FOOD product. There is nothing found in it you can't buy all day separately, or at a grocery store, or can't bake in a cake and sell all day long without anyone batting an eye. My listings don't even say that the product is for vaping, nor does it even state that it's "e-liquid" or "ejuice"....plus, they always clearly state: "you must be 18 to buy our products". Which brings us to the next MAJOR issue, and indicator of serious internal corruption (which I've pointed out to a couple of people who have purchased from me)....YOU MUST BE 18 to buy ANYTHING on Ebay, and IT IS AN EXPLICIT VIOLATION OF THE USER AGREEMENT EVERY ONE OF US HAS TO SIGN to do so. Therefore any parent who files a complaint that their non-adult child did ANYTHING on Ebay, needs to be blown off and informed that the little creep falsified information to even be on there (which is a legal offense, prosicutible by Law), so therefore, their complaint is moot and the transaction, therefore criminal....not Ebay's, NOR their partner's (seller's) problem. Further, people under 18 are not legally allowed to use PayPal, because minors cannot be legally held responsible for financial information, transactions, etc, and cannot own credit cards of their own accord. And I believe that's Federal Law. Ebay and PayPal BOTH know this goes on every single day and they do nothing about it.....when CCs dispute the transaction, they simply pay it and make YOU (the seller....who the crime was technically perpetrataed against in these cases) jump through all the hoops and take THE TIME to dig up "support info". I don't know about you, but I run a business and the first rule is: "Time IS Money". So they vicariously are screwing you there too. It seems to me, for the 20%+ that EB/PP get off every nickel you/me/every other seller transacts....we should be protected from the violators. Their accounts should be removed ON THE SPOT and all claims associated with said, be disavowed......and as Mr Ebay said at the first of this "blah, blah......don't make another account or penalties would be more severe". And that doesn't even begin to address what their other partner, USPS, who's raised their price on a 1 oz package (and modified the definition thereof - 'package') 500% over the last 5 or 6 years, is taking in off the business. Anyhow....the end answer is this: Our entire system is corrupt, from the ground up, and Ebay is no different. There should be a DEEP investigation into everything that is talked about in this thread, because it's ALL technically criminal. THIS IS America....we're all supposed to be treated the same and the Law is supposed to work the same for everyone.....not just special people. And I hate to tell you this, but these rules are especially explicit when it comes to trade in this country; what goes on is pretty much the same type of thing as insider trading, stock manipulation, etc. And per what the other user said....I am personally waiting to see that "Class Action suit" that covers this **bleep**....I will definitely be first in line. They've cost me literally 10s of K in lost revinue, and no telling how much else.
