Anyone know why Adult section is still active?

[pinupables]

If eBay stopped accepting listings in the adult section on June 15, not letting anymore be listed and were ending all Good Til Cancelled as they expired, then the section should have automatically ended July 15.

Yet as of right now, there are over 8,800 items in the magazine section along with 40,000 items in the Adult section altogether.

Just curious as to what changed.

[luckythewinner]

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@pinupables wrote:

If eBay stopped accepting listings in the adult section on June 15, not letting anymore be listed and were ending all Good Til Cancelled as they expired, then the section should have automatically ended July 15.

Yet as of right now, there are over 8,800 items in the magazine section along with 40,000 items in the Adult section altogether.

Just curious as to what changed.

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This is what was posted in mid-May

"Effective July 15, 2021, the Adult Only category will no longer be available for new listings on the U.S. site."

https://web.archive.org/web/20210516091123/https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-...

This is what it was updated to at some point afterward: 

"Starting June 15 and effective July 15, 2021, the Adult Only category will no longer be available for new listings on the U.S. site."

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/adult-items-policy?id=4278: 

So it sounds like the deadline is the same, but that eBay later decided to start removing the listings a month earlier than originally announced. 

[pinupables]

No, they never removed items.  They just simply did not renew Good Til Cancelled as of June 15th which automatically took them off the board as they expired, which would clear the Adult section entirely as of July 15th.

[luckythewinner]

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No, they never removed items.  They just simply did not renew Good Til Cancelled as of June 15th

Some listings that used to be there are no longer there.

which automatically took them off the board as they expired, which would clear the Adult section entirely as of July 15th

The evidence suggests that they only started doing this, and have not finished.

[releasethekraken_1]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

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No, they never removed items.  They just simply did not renew Good Til Cancelled as of June 15th

Some listings that used to be there are no longer there.

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That's exactly what would happen if they turned off GTC for those listings. Being allowed to expire isn't the same as being removed.

[pinupables]

No, I went to a LIVE chat with eBay to find out what happened.

Apparently, Adult listings were never scheduled to automatically end.  eBay was doing them all manually one by one.

I know this is true because I was trying to end mine as they expired but some got passed me and automatically renewed.  A few minutes later when I caught that it renewed, I hurried up and ended it to avoid one of the nasty little notes eBay was messaging sellers for each item they manually ended on their own.

So apparently, the 40,000 items we're seeing still up and running were never manually ended as they should have been.

The question still remains as to why they're still up and running though.  If they couldn't manually end them, let's say, late at night, etc, then there is always the next day.

[luckythewinner]

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@pinupables wrote:

Apparently, Adult listings were never scheduled to automatically end.  eBay was doing them all manually one by one.

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ROTFL.

Didn't you post the exact opposite of this in post #3 above?

When you said:

"No, they never removed items. They just simply did not renew Good Til Cancelled as of June 15th which automatically took them off the board as they expired, which would clear the Adult section entirely as of July 15th."

So they removed listings,  but did not remove listings. And they let them automatically expire, but they did not let them automatically expire. Way to cover your bases 🙂

[pinupables]

Another thing that was mentioned from one of the chat reps that a lot of sellers suspected:

01:21:41 UTC Joanna

I have checked and you're right, as eBay transitions to managed payments, adult items are no longer allowed to be listed on eBay.

So eBay is doing away with an approximate billion dollar a year in sales section of their site for managed payments?

Odd, how Amazon manages to have both ... only their softcore items isn't in an adult section.

It would seem eBay could have arranged Adult section to be paid for strictly via PayPal and still have all sellers be part of Managed Payments.

[eleanor*rigby]

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@pinupables wrote:

It would seem eBay could have arranged Adult section to be paid for strictly via PayPal and still have all sellers be part of Managed Payments.

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Huh? 

It doesn't matter how the BUYER pays--the transaction still goes through Managed Payments. How the BUYER pays has nothing to do with it. 😂

[downunder-61]

I wonder if some countries (ie on Payoneer) still has adult items, coz isn't it Adyen that caused the restriction ?

[jedi_6824]

Do everything manually?

[luckythewinner]

@downunder-61 wrote:

I wonder if some countries (ie on Payoneer) still has adult items, coz isn't it Adyen that caused the restriction ?

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It is also conceivable that eBay is simply doing what the policy page says they would do:

"Starting June 15 and effective July 15, 2021, the Adult Only category will no longer be available for new listings on the U.S. site."

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/adult-items-policy?id=4278

That statement doesn't give a time frame for removing existing listings; it simply says that the category will no longer be available for new listings on the USA site.

[pinupables]

That statement doesn't give a time frame for removing existing listings; it simply says that the category will no longer be available for new listings on the USA site.

Adult items were not allowed to be mailed outside the US.

So why would they list them for sites outside the country to see?

[simba6]

That is so silly.  All big name retailers carry such items. Even wally mart has a full line of them.

[tev4all]

It would seem, the active listings are still generating enough revenue for eBay to justify letting them continue. When eBay revenue falls to a cer'ain point the listings will vanish.