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[stuarmarti-3]

Hey eBay 

You broke your system somehow, I can’t buy hardly any electronic components from any seller, guess your restricted item bot or algorithm flags up the listings somehow, I’m just a hobbyist trying to buy a few diodes. 

come on eBay get it sorted. 

[andha-21]

@stuarmarti-3 

Not certain but depending on how much the items you want to buy normally are, the BPF could have priced the sellers that were here out of the game.

The BPF only directly hits Private Sellers though, so it depends whether any Business Sellers deal in what you want.

Something that would have cost £1 before now costs £1.80 ish, so either the buyers accept that, the seller tries to absorb that or the sellers sell elsewhere.

[stuarmarti-3]

I’m trying to buy from business sellers. What is BPF? 

[andha-21]

Buyer Protection Fee, a new way for eBay to earn money 

Buyer pays 4% of item & postage value +0.75p on top of the price the private seller asks for.

eBay take all the extra.

[stuarmarti-3]

Crazy, I’m pretty sure that’s not the issue here as they are all business sellers I’m trying to buy from. One agent I spoke to let slip it’s was because the item was a “semiconductor” and that’s restricted. It’s true it’s a semiconductor, a diode for hobby electronics use. im guessing some over eager AI type software does not like the words in the item listing and has “banned” it for want of a better word. 

id sure hate to run a business relying on eBay nowadays 

[arkwebus]

We are all members like you; nothing to do with operating eBay!

Very strange - I searched for "diodes" and literally thousands came up in great strips from business suppliers.  

As long as you're not in weird countries [now including USA I'd guess] I cannot see the problem.  @stuarmarti-3 

I have 12 sitting in a drawer for a planned model railway.  I must get on ...

[stuarmarti-3]

Can’t see the problem either, I can also search and see hundreds of them, it just won’t let me buy them I get this checkout error. I’m in the UK trying to buy from UK based sellers.

the whole thing is bizarre 

[arkwebus]

Bizarre indeed!  Of course if it's a UK business seller there will be a contact on his selling page including a telephone number.  

Ring-ring?

@stuarmarti-3