I was going through some of my own listings, and clicked on the View Other Listings link in one of them in order to jump quickly to another one of mine I was looking for. That was when I was scrolling down the page of my listings, and saw this mystery item in the middle:
Now, my first thought, of course, was OhMiGawd-I've-been-hacked, but after a closer look, I realized that's not the case. Here is the supposed Adult Only item:
It's a bicycling accessory for nighttime riding: a blinking red LED and reflector that you strap on to your arm. *cough*
Yeah, eBay in its infinite wisdom has decided that it's an "Adults only" item on the basis of that one hyphenated word in the title, and was quietly blocking it from view as a result. The thing is, they never told me they were doing so, or that in fact they had any problem with the listing at all, or the Cycling category in which it appears (which I guess is a good thing, considering how badly things go sideways in other cases we read about here), but it does explain why the listing has languished since it went up, way back last year at the beginning of the evening biking season.
I'll fix the title by rewording to something else that hopefully will be searchable and innocuous at the same time, once we have a collective giggle here over eBay's coding attempts to protect us from ourselves.
@wastingtime101 wrote:
brian@ebay, can you report this to the content filters team? Both the OP and the post directly above mine? Seems like they could lighten things up based on category, no?
@wastingtime101 yeah I'll send this example over for review. Thanks for tagging me!
