eBay

etvideo1ataol · ‎11-13-2017

In the process of removing HTTP pictures, I am discovering all kinds of things that eBay suddenly has a problem with.

Some's job must depend on this.

I include some of the cast of the movies I list in the description. Occasionally, the names of the characters have caused a problem. Not that they are crude or rude, but that they are words which seem to terrify eBay.

Today's horror was "Western Union Man". When removing the pictures, I was blocked from revising the listing, an old listing, has been listed before, because I was offering Western Union as a payment method.

This nonsense has happened before with other names that were words eBay gave other meaning to and I have had to slightly change the name. I will probably have to make this "Western Onion Man".

Things like this always remind me of the book 1984.

Big Brother IS Watching.

ted_200 · ‎11-13-2017

@readabouthorses wrote:
Yep, I ran into the Western Union one when I was listing a horse magazine where one of the horse's name was The Western Union. I had to take it out because Turbo Lister would not list it until I did.

And yet, their bot can't scan for "replica" or "plated" in categories where all replica items and plated items are prohibited by eBay policy.

Selective enforcement based on revenue stream.

The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves.

d-k_treasures · ‎11-13-2017

@ted_200 wrote:
@readabouthorses wrote:
Yep, I ran into the Western Union one when I was listing a horse magazine where one of the horse's name was The Western Union. I had to take it out because Turbo Lister would not list it until I did.
And yet, their bot can't scan for "replica" or "plated" in categories where all replica items and plated items are prohibited by eBay policy.

Selective enforcement based on revenue stream.

Well, their bots probably start with an item location country that begins with U* .... and ends with Un*.

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