e-Bay Policy

[julytwin]

I tried to list a cookie jar but e-Bay took it down 3 times! After finally finding chat, I was told this last time that she has big eyes and lips!  I told them I DID NOT make the jar. The smart ass guy told me "but you listed it" What the heck??  I  have seen some awful things listed on e-bay.  e-Bay has gotten, in my views too high in fee's and now this.  Time to move on.

[7606dennis]

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@1786davycrockett wrote:

We only have the OP's word regarding whatever statement was made by the CS rep, which is thus only hearsay, and perhaps taken entirely out of context.

Considering the OP's behavior regarding this item, I am willing to cut the CS rep some slack.

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I agree.  However, if true it would be something that would not reflect highly on the training given to that particular CSR. 

Of course, I can see where a frustrated CSR might slip and actually vocalize what they are thinking.   In fact, it is similar to the point I was trying to make in another thread  about the fallacy of the customer always being right.  😉

[gosimus]

@julytwin 

< I tried to list a cookie jar but e-Bay took it down 3 times >   

Subsequent posts explain that the cookie jar was constructed in an image of Aunt Jemima.  The famous pancake syrup has removed the image from the label, and even went so far as to rename the product.  What extraordinary times we live in.  Can Mrs Butterworth be far behind?  

[albertabrightalberta]

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@gosimus wrote:

@julytwin 

< I tried to list a cookie jar but e-Bay took it down 3 times >   

Subsequent posts explain that the cookie jar was constructed in an image of Aunt Jemima.  The famous pancake syrup has removed the image from the label, and even went so far as to rename the product.  What extraordinary times we live in.  Can Mrs Butterworth be far behind?  

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And Uncle Ben can't be far either.

[1786davycrockett]

You may not have noticed, but both the Uncle Ben and Mrs. Butterworth product images have been changed, either earlier this year, or late in 2020.

Much, much earlier, the "hillbilly" caricature on Mountain Dew was also eliminated; so this "commercial cleansing" is just not for the benefit of one specific set of characteristics -- it is, rather, to adjust painfully offensive and exaggerated stereotypes from throughout our cultural history (which includes the drunken Irish, the animalistic Slav, the bone-headed Scandinavians, and so on, and so on -- just fill in the nationality).  

Just because eBay refuses to allow sellers to list these items for sale on its site, does not mean that these items have been "canceled," or that "history" is being erased -- there are plenty of places where these images can still be seen and exhibited.  Just no longer on eBay.