Live animals prohibition policy...

[tinyfishes567]

Hi all!

I was one of the people selling aquarium snails on here and a month ago received an email from eBay that stated that live animals (explicitly mentioning snails) will be prohibited from 17th of March, and that I need to take down my listings with snails in them.

I have now "ended" all my snail listings and they are in my "ended" list.

Am I correct to assume that is all I needed to do?

Or do I need to "delete" them from the "ended" list too?

Only asking this as this very policy was completely reversed for US sellers, and the same might happen in the UK (or one can hope). If that was to happen, I could relist them from "ended" while keeping all the stats.

[johnwash1]

No harm in keeping it in your ended list.  I've done that when a listing has been deemed against policy.

Note that it will vanish after 90 days.

[riftculture]

Ive left mine all up and active on ebay. Will wait till they tell me to take them down. 

[4_bathrooms]

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@riftculture wrote:

Ive left mine all up and active on ebay. Will wait till they tell me to take them down. 

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It seems eBay have recently updated their policy. I can see from the Wayback Machine that snails were previously permitted to be sold but their updated policy states that - without exception - no live animals are allowed to be sold at all.

It is rarely a good idea to deliberately defy an eBay selling policy.

[papso22]

One of Ebay's better moves.  Sending live fish through the post was another big issue.

[riftculture]

If a livestock ban comes in i wont be using ebay anymore so no problem. 

[papso22]

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@riftculture wrote:

If a livestock ban comes in i wont be using ebay anymore so no problem. 

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They are already banned.  You need to remove your listings before you are sanctioned.

[riftculture]

If there banned already why are there categories for live fish.  

[papso22]

There are categories for lots of banned items which may not be banned elsewhere in the world.  It is the ebay UK policies that determine what you can and can't list, and incidentally, what sort of account you should have (private or business).

You are looking for excuses.

[plants_4_ponds]

How is there still lots of fish & aquatic snails for sale?

[riftculture]

I have listings still on ebay for live fish. I am niw unable to revise relist or sell similar. Or add any new fish adds. But ebay hasn’t removed my other listings. Which is strange. 

[papso22]

Why are you still listing these animals when it's clearly prohibited by the new policy?

You should remove the listings before you are reported and sanctioned.

[riftculture]

Im not. They where there before the policy came in. So up to ebay to remove them like all the other people selling fish on ebay. Don’t really care anymore what they do as wont be using ebay any more once they are gone. 

[riftculture]

Personally find it disgusting that ebay are treating the uk like this when other countries like the USA are still able to sell tropical fish on ebay. 

[papso22]

You clearly haven't read the policy, it says nothing about new listings.

It says 'live animals are not allowed on ebay'.  That means your listings need to be removed,  by you.  It's not up to ebay, it's up to you.

[barry.110]

You do realise that we have different laws here in the UK to the US don't you?

eBay probably decided that it is easier to ban sales of live fish on eBay in the UK than all the procedures they would have to have in place for checking if someone is licensed to sell fish online and that they are using an authorised courier to transport the fish.

[papso22]

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@riftculture wrote:

Personally find it disgusting that ebay are treating the uk like this when other countries like the USA are still able to sell tropical fish on ebay. 

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I think it's disgusting that people knowingly break ebay UK policies, including the business account one.

[*vyolla*]

Even when you could send live fish out via the post they had to be less than 5cm, and you had to send them via a method that guarantees delivery next day, so some of your current listings even breach the older policy anyway.

[riftculture]

Thanks for checking. I only post out Tuesday for delivery Wednesday. Customers are all told this after purchase and it is clearly mentioned in the description. Delivery is next day delivery. 

[*vyolla*]

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@riftculture wrote:

. Delivery is next day delivery. 

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According to this listing for your Ancistrus it's not:

And even under the old policy you couldn't list fish over 5cm.