Restricted material

[tmichaeld]

I just had a item removed because it was alleged to have violated restricted material rules.It was a older Playboy VHS movie. It had no restricted body parts shown. I have been listing it for months trying to sell it when someone decided it was restricted material. the same day I was notified of that action I received in an email an ad put out by ebay, showing 2 items clearly showing 2 women's breasts! Clearly a restricted items yet sent to thousands of homes without any warning to protect those households children etc that the ad contained material which ebay itself found offensive. We the sellers who make them money are required  to follow their restrictions, yet they send nudity into millions of homes where children use the computers with no system to protect them what they do not allow shown except for "special areas" which it is allowed but have no way to keep children out of in the home. They are hypocrites, violate their own standards. If we can not sell it on their platform, they should not be sending it into our computers. If they find a violation it should be moved to the approprite section of ebay and if none, only then removed, and any ads they send out should include warnings of any "restricted material" in it. 

[kibble-net]

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@tmichaeld wrote:

 If they find a violation it should be moved to the approprite section of ebay 

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No - that is the seller's responsibility.

[tobaccocardyahoo]

When hit with an issue like this, ask yourself "Is being able to try to sell this item worth losing my Ebay selling privileges?"

I have dealt with more questionable restricted item actions and never had one which was worth risking my ability to sell here. 

Fighting the restriction usually just makes it more likely that you will see another and with enough of them, you will need another selling venue.

[roccotacodad54]

  " they send nudity into millions of homes where children use the computers with no system to protect them" 

   I agree with children not having access to nude images but the system to protect them is called Parents.  If the children in millions of homes are seeing nude images it's because their parents are dropping the ball.  One is supposed to be 18 years old to have access to eBay.  Leaving oneself signed in to a website one doesn't want their kids to see is easy to fix.

   Without parental control of online content those same children have access to far worse than just images of bare breasts.

   I see it over and over.  Parents complaining about what their kids see on the internet but doing nothing to prevent it......................

[tmichaeld]

1. I am not fighting the restriction, I want it to be a two way street, and anyone who says they preview every email their kids see (at home, at neighbors, on smart phones is either lying or stupid. If they preset them selves as safe for children to look at their site because before such area that material can be viewed the areas can be blocked by the parent, then they send the material they say need to be restricted on their site into the internet to homes etc without any notice they are doing so is the action of a hypocrite. I do not want to be kicked off their site. I do want them to treat the public who visit their site the same as they want to be treated. And if a judgement call is made which some of the criteria requires and they disagree with your judgement then moving it to what they deemed as the appropriate area seemed a more reasonable solution, and I have no issue with removing it if is clearly illegal material, etc.  Also  you do not have to be 18 to use the internet, and parents may wish to allow their kids to use the family email system rather then having one on their own say on their smart phone which they can not monitor eassy.