All I can tell you is this: In every category of restricted items -- so-called "adult" items, knives, OTC drugs, government-issued items, alcohol products, cosmetics, medical devices, plants and seeds, weapons, bullion, coupons, on and on and on -- sellers are running into this, and increasingly so.
eBay's Restricted and Prohibited Items policies are vague, with lots of eraser language (such as, "including but not limited to" and similar), and they are randomly enforced, with mindless and poorly-programmed bots doing most of the enforcing.
Someone recently posted his experience of having collectible paper currency from Oman removed because some bot confused OMAN with IRAN (the latter being an embargoed country). Each country name has four letters, begins with a vowel, ends with AN. That was enough for the bots. When he finally spoke with a human CSR, he was told the listing would not be restored because, "It's a grey area." Huh?? "Grey" to the bot, maybe, but surely not to any human being with a map.
And I could cite 20 other examples, just off the top of my head.
So far as I can see, there is not a thing you can do about it. If you relist the items, you risk permanent suspension of your selling account. You will simply have to find somewhere else to sell them. I know that sounds unhelpful and useless. But I am just stating the reality: On eBay, in all matters relating to restricted or prohibited items, it is bad and it is getting worse.
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