This is REPREHENSIBLE and INEXCUSABLE. Perhaps this attempt at price fixing needs to be reported to some advocate in the media. There is no basis for removing any video game listing.
And, at the the same time, eBay allows sellers to sell $4 cans of Lysol disinfectant (a most essential item nowadays) for $60+, and laughs all the way to the bank.
Wasn't this site built by supply and demand in the first place? There would not be an eBay if not for the American free market system. And there won't be one in the future if they keep micro-managing their sellers in this fashion.
There are thousands of game titles available for kids to play for about $5. This is a collectible game in short supply, and offered at or below an established market price. And anyone can make a decision either to buy or not to buy.
The OP didn't raise the price during this crisis, and is being told to sell his collectible for even less while others are priced much higher. Why haven't the $130 games also been pulled???
Here is the problem: Policies and rules here are followed very inconsistently. If eBay really wanted to pull any and every high-priced video game off their site, it could easily be done. But they choose not to.
And in this case, they have correctly been "called to the mat", and have not produced any TRUE justification for the removal of this game, which is coveted by collectors in this condition. No one with restless 10 year old kids who need to occupy time are going to buy this anyhow. What an embarrassment.....
If I came up with a copy of, say, Action Comics #1 and listed it on here at a reasonable opening bid price of $50,000, would it be removed by eBay also? Kids are reading comics and other books much more often nowadays.
NO! This comic is extremely rare, and tattered examples go for up to $100K. So, again, there is no basis for this.
