Help! Getting Used Underwear Prohibited Message When I am Listing Non-Clothing Items

[smartseller2001]

I have 3 items I am trying to sell (lot of Sports magazines, lot of YA books, a Disney photo frame magnet) and when I click List, I get the following message:

"If you didn't follow our Used Clothing policy "https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/used-clothing-policyid=4281" in the past and continue to overlook our policy, then you won't be allowed to list underwear any longer."

I didn't/don't sell underwear and don't know why these listings are bringing this message. I have tried changing language that might sound clothing related or sexual - I changed "bindings are tight" to "secure," "clean" to "unmarked." I even tried misspelling wear (describing the condition of books/magazines) to "ware."

This happened a few months ago and when I did the ebay chat help they couldn't give me any helpful info so I just abandoned that listing. 

Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks!

[metaltech1]

Without seeing the original listings, I have only one idea as to why you got that notification.....

Your avatar looks like a teddi hanging on a clothes hanger.  Maybe the eBay bots saw that and thought you were an underwear store?

[luckythewinner]

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@smartseller2001 wrote:

Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks!

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Not without seeing the title, conditions, item specifics, categories and descriptions you used in the listings. 

One thing to check is to make sure you do not have a "trigger word" that is broken up across other words, For example: 

"The oil pan ties things together"

"I feel used  bragging about "

If you have three listings that are all being blocked, any text that is common to the three would be a good place to start. 

[smartseller2001]

I think the word "Love" was triggering it. I listed the title of each issue - when I changed Love to Luv, my listing posted. Thanks for your suggestions; I hadn't thought a word as innocuous as love would be a problem. *shrug*