Vintage USPS sweater from 70's 80's not allowed on ebay?

[turtleswares17]

 

 my understanding is that postal uniforms are not allowed on ebay unless they meet the following requirements: 

• The item is 10 years old or older 
• It's no longer in use 
• It doesn't look like a current uniform or accessory.

I Tried to list this vintage sweater that from my understanding meets these requirements buy it was removed within minutes of listing, I am confused if this was automatically removed by Ai or if an employee did not look closely at the listing or pictures, or if I am somehow wrong and there Is a usps grandpa Cardigan sweater that looks identical in service currently. This sweater is worth $50 at about 4x sellthrough others have sold successfully, is there any way I can list this safely or am I truly not allowed to list this sweater? Thanks for an responses.

[simba6]

Don't ever relist it. You will be banned from selling for life if they keep removing it.  The people enforcing those rules are clueless. They only go by key words.   eBay will keep a copy of that listing until the end of time. So no matter what their reps might tell you, it's a real risk to ever try to sell it here again.

[mooncat_watches]

Most likely the words you used or the way you structured the words in the title or description triggered the AI flag. As @simba6 said, don't try to relist it as it will forever carry the ban, no matter how you change it now. Once on the radar, you are stuck on the radar.

[slippinjimmy]

The issue would be the logo patch not the style of the garment. The patch on your sweater appears to be the current logo not one of the older ones that are no longer in use.

[chapeau-noir]

I'd just get rid of the patch and sell it as a regular sweater - those older USA-knit sweaters always sell well.

[grand-and-glorious-purpose · Accepted solution]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

I'd just get rid of the patch 

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That's almost all of the value.

OP

Your listing was removed by a bot and you can't reason with a bot. No CSR that you can get ahold of by phone is going to have the authority or knowledge base to help nor will it be important enough for anyone higher up at ebay ever bother looking at or going through the hoops to fix.

This is a get rid of them all scenario. Yours got flagged and someone else's didn't until AFTER it sold. You can still get flagged and penalized up to 90 days after a sale...you can be sure they got spanked just like you.

Don't list it here again because every time you do and it gets pulled you get a secret strike and you don't want those.

You however have the rest of the internet in which to sell it.

You can possibly get the policy violation erased but you will most certainly need a USA based rep that actually knows policy in order to help you and good luck with that.