FACTORY ORIGINAL TAPE REMOVED - PURE VITIMIZATION

[quadbook]

WHAT IDIOT AT EBAY DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO THEIR JOB.......TALK ABOUT BEING VICTIMIZED..WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? HEAD OFFICE CALIFORNIA, OK I GET IT, ENOUGH SAID.

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Your post has been changed because invalid HTML was found in the message body. The invalid HTML has been removed. Please review the message and submit the message when you are satisfied----THE ONLY HTML IS EBAYS...DUH!

Hello quadbook,

Your listing didn't follow our Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay policy. Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay, including sharing direct contact information prior to an eBay purchase, is not allowed.

What activity didn't follow the policy

 More specific details are provided below.

What you need to do next

Go to the listing page to select Revise Listing, or go to your Active Listings in Seller Hub to edit the listing.

What is the policy

Buyers and sellers can’t:

- Engage in any action with a user on the site designed to complete or facilitate a transaction outside of eBay
- Share or request direct contact information prior to completing a sale. This includes:
-- Name
-- Addresses
-- Phone number
-- Email address
-- Social media ID
-- Instant messenger ID
-- External website addresses (URLs)
-- Payment information
-- Bank details
- In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay
- Use contact information obtained through an eBay transaction to offer to buy or sell an item outside of eBay
- List an item and then mention or link to additional identical or related items for sale outside of eBay
- Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay

Buyers and sellers should:

- Complete purchases on eBay in order to be covered by eBay protections and eBay Money Back Guarantee. Confirmation of a completed transaction on eBay can be obtained by:
-- Using the eBay checkout to complete the purchase
-- Viewing the purchase in purchase or sales history
- Use Best Offer or Seller Initiated Offer transactions to accept offers for items and negotiate a price
- Use the Private Offer feature to send a customized offer within Messages to sell to a specific buyer

How this affects your account

There's an issue with your listings that requires your attention, so we've hidden them until you fix the issue. - We have credited any associated fees, except for transaction fees for your sold listing(s).

These listings are still in your Active Listings folder in My eBay and Seller Hub so you can edit them to address the issue. However, until they are revised, new buyers can't purchase them, shoppers can't see them, and you will not be charged additional listing fees for them. Once you revise the listings, we will review them. If the issue has been fixed, they will be visible to shoppers and buyers with any past sales and activity intact. If you prefer, you can end them to move them out of Active Listings.

Listings that don't follow this policy or that are reported to us by authorities in the future will be hidden. This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence. This came to our attention through automated detection.

Go to Resolution Hub to view and address the policy issues in your listings.

Why we have this policy

Offers to buy or sell outside of eBay are a potential fraud risk for both buyers and sellers. Transactions conducted outside of eBay are not eligible for eBay protection programs and the eBay Money Back Guarantee. Additionally, eBay has invested a great deal to connect interested buyers with great sellers and we want to participate in ongoing transactions with them.

More information and help

Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay policy

Listings that don't follow policy

 Item: 196996877800 MARIANNE FAITHFULL -4 TRACK 3.75ips-PLAY TESTED - SUPERB - RARE
Reference ID: 2-190468073296

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@quadbook 

If you get this message when trying to post:

"Your post has been changed because invalid HTML was found in the message body. The invalid HTML has been removed."

select your entire post and right click "cut".

Then right click "Paste as plain text"

That will usually allow the post to be posted.

[quadbook]

ggggggestap0 at work, that's my opinion

[greatmidwestcoin]

They are all over. Always someone trying to tell you how to breathe and which nose to pick. Sorry for the visual.

[slippinjimmy]

Did you have have something in the description or pics that might lead eBay to think was contact information?

You got the HTML notification because you cut and pasted the eBay notification and unknown to you a lot of html coding was copied as well.

I think it was nice of eBay to give you a chance to fix the listing rather than deleting it forever. Do the edit and you should be good.

It's quite possible if you also copied your description (or part of it) you also picked up some coding, that might have included links to web pages that are not eBay pages.

[albertabrightalberta]

@quadbook 

Is this the same problem you wrote about a couple of days ago? 

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Victimized-yet-again-by-ebay/td-p/34920570

[a_c_green]

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@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:

@quadbook 

If you get this message when trying to post:

"Your post has been changed because invalid HTML was found in the message body. The invalid HTML has been removed."

select your entire post and right click "cut".

Then right click "Paste as plain text"

That will usually allow the post to be posted.

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Actually I find that the plain-text pasting step isn't usually needed in this particular situation. As the message says, "The invalid HTML has been removed," so at that point I simply hit the Reply button to re-submit it, and it always posts fine on the second go-round. I get that a lot when editing down quoted material to only the lines I want to cite.

(I don't know why the posting code can't simply do the removal that it said it did and carry on with the posting process, instead of tossing it back to the author after making the repairs anyway and then announcing that all over the place, but of course I didn't write the code... 😋)

[chapeau-noir]

Cross posted

[annadryl]

Keep in mind that you are working on a computer in a platform, industry, online that is almost totally automated. It's 2025. There was probably a glitch but it wasn't someone sitting behind a computer (in a state you don't think much of?) saying "Poor wittle you".

No need for the rage.

Here, I'll share 🍷

[slippinjimmy]

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@albertabrightalberta wrote:

@quadbook 

Is this the same problem you wrote about a couple of days ago? 

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Victimized-yet-again-by-ebay/td-p/34920570

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Same rant but different listings, this one is for the Marianne Faithful (RIP) tape, the other was for guitars.

I think these qualify for Combined Ranting surcharges!

[quadbook]

no, item removed then was a gibson guitar with a serial # and place of manufacture and ebay accused me of trading outside of ebay.....gggggestapo  at work

[luckythewinner]

WHAT IDIOT AT EBAY DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO THEIR JOB

If you are complaining about the message about HTML in your post, that is probably because you did a cut-and-paste from the eBay message into the post without using "past as plain text" or the equivalent. That is user error, not an issue with eBay.

If you are complaining about the take down of your listing, that is an automated process. eBay scans listings for certain keywords or phrases, and if your listing contains them it gets flagged. Without us seeing the full text of your listing, we cannot help you figure out what the issue is.

[monica-sells]

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@quadbook wrote:

Hello quadbook,

Buyers and sellers can’t:

- Engage in any action with a user on the site designed to complete or facilitate a transaction outside of eBay
- Share or request direct contact information prior to completing a sale. This includes:
-- Name
-- Addresses
-- Phone number
-- Email address
-- Social media ID
-- Instant messenger ID
-- External website addresses (URLs)
-- Payment information
-- Bank details
- In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay
- Use contact information obtained through an eBay transaction to offer to buy or sell an item outside of eBay
- List an item and then mention or link to additional identical or related items for sale outside of eBay
- Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay

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Glad to see you figured it out.

[itsjustasprain]

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@quadbook wrote:

no, item removed then was a gibson guitar with a serial # and place of manufacture and ebay accused me of trading outside of ebay.....gggggestapo  at work

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What? No - the Nazi stuff is SO last year. The new boogeyman is AI - which is now responsible for everything bad that happens. I think there was a memo about that around here someplace...