Return Reason: Restricted/Prohibited Item.

[epsilon_publishing]

I sent a box of old Christmas lights (C-6) to Canada, but they were returned from Erlanger. The lights did not work, and I had listed them so, "For parts or repair".  However, it seems vintage, non-working Xmas lights are now banned in Canada. 

• Return Reason: Restricted/Prohibited Item. These issues can include custom restrictions, country sanctions, brand restrictions or eBay program restrictions.
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Anybody can shed any "light" on this? 

[rebell45]

I guess incandescent bulbs are all banned in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/incandescent-light-bulb-ban-starts-jan-1-1.2479868

That was in 2013.

[gwens*4saleitems*]

Tagging someone that lives in Canada 

@sin-n-dex 

[pikabo-icu]

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@rebell45 wrote:

I guess incandescent bulbs are all banned in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/incandescent-light-bulb-ban-starts-jan-1-1.2479868

That was in 2013.

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Even for used?  Eeesh.. 

[epsilon_publishing]

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@gwens*4saleitems* wrote:

Tagging someone that lives in Canada 

@sin-n-dex 

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?

[epsilon_publishing]

Thank you

[sin-n-dex · Accepted solution]

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@epsilon_publishing wrote:

I sent a box of old Christmas lights (C-6) to Canada, but they were returned from Erlanger. The lights did not work, and I had listed them so, "For parts or repair".  However, it seems vintage, non-working Xmas lights are now banned in Canada. 

• Return Reason: Restricted/Prohibited Item. These issues can include custom restrictions, country sanctions, brand restrictions or eBay program restrictions.
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Anybody can shed any "light" on this? 

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I got tagged on this, thanks very much.

I'm not sure why these items are banned, if there is a ban, it's probably by Canada Post for safety reasons. (I don't know the reason, but you could go to www.canadapost.ca to find out more about restricted/prohibited items).

My cross border courier doesn't take some products for odd reasons (like sunglasses). Sometimes there isn't a reason we can understand from these decisions.

I'd just suggest you try and sell them to USA buyers.

C.

[epsilon_publishing]

Thanks, I thought you were virtue-signaling me ("why are you targeting Canadians"😁 ). Sometimes I'm a little hypersensitive!  

What do they mean by "tagged"? To me, it still means the backyard game we played when kids, running and touching someone to make them "it".

I sell a lot of polarized 3-D glasses (they look like sunglasses) and I think I have sent some to Canada.

I am wondering if they also informed the buyer in Canada that his old Christmas bulb items were blocked, because they left it up to me to process the refund. Wonder if I list it in a different category, then would Erlanger let it through? 

[downunder-61]

If you want to get the attention of another poster on these boards you do this:

@downunder-61 

That is what they call tagging

[epsilon_publishing]

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@downunder-61 wrote:

If you want to get the attention of another poster on these boards you do this:

@downunder-61 

That is what they call tagging

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Alles klar! Thanks. After I read the message again, it's obvious. You know, I am working on 3-4 widely-variant different types of technology every day, and switching the brain from the jargon of this tech (writing a basketball biography) to the jargon of the next tech (eBay phrases and acronyms), leaves the brain spinning sometimes...