Most definitely being singled out by ebay

[nursing_student_chad85]

I found an ilco 025 manual key copying machine for a good price so I checked ebay for comparable listings, sold and for sale, to see if I could make some money. Sure enough there are lots of key copying machines available including the same exact machine had sold about a month prior for over $500 plus shipping. So from that listing I clicked "sell one like this" and posted it. Well a day later I get notified my listings was removed due to not being allowed to sell "lock picking or lock smithing devices". Meanwhile there are TONS of these machines listed, some of which say like 5 sold 2 available, so obviously they've been there for quite a while. There are literal listings of lock pin kits with "professional locksmith" in the title. There's even a seller who sells nothing but locksmith supplies with over 1300 items sold. I also reached out to the seller who sold the same exact machine as me to see how long it took to sell cause I was thinking maybe they posted it and sold it so quick they didn't catch it and I find out it was listed for an entire month before it sold!! So I reached out to ebay to see if removing my item was a mistake or if I was being singled out and I'm most definitely being singled out. The gentleman I spoke with even told me he could check if my post was found through a broad search or if they were just checking my items and sure enough that just "randomly" decided to check my items.  Then they obviously deny singling me out saying there's thousands of items posted every minute and they can't keep up but will eventually get to them. So I tell him that's **bleep** considering there's posts with multiple machines sold with some still left available, literal professional locksmith tools available, and entire locksmith tools/supplies only sellers with over 1000 sales and a simple search turns them up so if anyone was actually looking they'd most definitely find it. Then they really asked me for sellers names and item numbers so they could report them individually! I told them I'm not snitching on specific posts/sellers. It would be nice if they'd enforce the rules universally and even nicer if they'd not enforce them universally and leave me alone like all the other sellers.  So now I'm stuck with this darn machine and out the money I paid for it because ebay has a hard on for me wether they're willing to admit it or not. 

[onefootflipper]

No offense, but someone who gets about 20 sales a month is not even going to slightly be on the radar of ebay or anyone at ebay.

What actually happened is an automated search robot didn't like your listing and removed it. I have had it happen to me at least 10 times for various things in the past few years.  It doesn't matter that there are others up, some the robots catch and some they don't, they usually tend to catch them when they are extremely new. 

Also, state laws vary wildly about lock picking and smithing devices. You might live in a state that requires a special license to sell them or forbids their sale in some manner causing your listing to get removed while other listings coming out of other states do not get removed. 

[s.scharmu0]

There are other places to sell items,

[inhawaii]

You're not being singled out just because your listing was taken down and others have not.

It's happened to me before.

It sure FEELS like you're being singled out, but you're not.

[nursing_student_chad85]

Guess reading isn't your strong point, as I said the guy on the phone specifically told me it was found by someone looking at my page/listings specifically not through a broad search or search robot..... if those were being used they'd catch the 100s of essentially the same items listed and sold 

[kh-vince]

Hi everyone,

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