HI All (and hopefully eBay policy team if you are listening), like over 10,000 of you out there, we (used to) sell hatching eggs through eBay (as well as other online platforms). we have been here doing this since Feb 2020 successfully. We are registered business user and pay our fees along with that.
I see that "all of a sudden" eBay has begun to remove all listing content for fertile hatching egg sellers - although this appears very haphazard as that there are still many 1000's live.
They say it goes against their 'live animal policy' without giving any further explanation. Defra (UK Gov dept)
Quote Defra PHS Handbook "‘Hatching eggs’ means eggs, laid by poultry or captive birds, intended for incubation" eBay - PLEASE NOTE the word INTENDED. They are not yet incubated and are just an egg.
Defra also specifies that they are only live animals if there is a heart beat ad circulatory system. Your policy needs to reflect this. Let me explain a little further to improve understanding..... EBay - if any one of us 10,000 sellers of fertile eggs transported eggs with ANY kind of development inside, it would die within minutes of being outside of an incubator, would not develop further or hatch. we'd have hundreds of complaints, no customers and no repeat custom. therefore the thousands of us who do successfully sell freshly laid eggs for incubation, it demonstrates that are eggs CAN NOT be 'live' on dispatch and receipt - any more than a dried seed is a germinated plant with leaves.
I cant get hold of anyone on eBay to discuss who made this decision and to educate them of the fallout off this misleading policy addition. eBay s also STILL providing an entire category for hatching eggs that has not been removed/altered... interesting
Id like to know that eBay is going to SWIFTLY review this decision in the light of FACTS and the benefits to both eBay as a selling platform generating its own income and the small business owners across the country (and i assume the world if you are applying this globally).
