Unable to list item - eBay say offering to sell off eBay

[softplus261]

I keep getting this message in emails from eBay

Your listing didn't follow our Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay policy. Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay, including sharing direct contact information prior to an eBay purchase, is not allowed.

I am not offering to sell outside of ebay.

I do not give any personal details, no address, no email, no phone number, nothing

Why are eBay stating the above ???

I have over 650 positive feedback (100% positive).

All my seller feedback has also been 100% positive.

I have been a member since 2006 (over 19 years)

This is so frustrating that I'm considering not using eBay again.

[softplus261]

Although you knew there were problems with your listings:

- you were including your own website's address in your listings.

 - you were attempting to get customers to buy something else from you, which you had not listed in eBay,

What did you think would happen?

Clearly you have not seen my listing.

I do not have a website

I do not have any other listing on eBay

Have you been drinking?

[softplus261]

I removed everything that may look like a phone number.

I even temoved thing like * or  similar.

Thanks

I have now re-listed with the alterations.

Fingers crossed

[missdollydaydream]

All I can think of is, copyright issue!

[vinylscot]

Another poster reported that you were offering to sell another item which was not listed on eBay, and that you were including a website address to contact for updates. I apologise if that was not your own website, but it is still not allowed.

[crn303]

Hello softplus …  Please take some replies with a pince of salt … They don’t believe what they read only what they want to believe.

[softplus261]

Another poster reported that you were offering to sell another item which was not listed on eBay, and that you were including a website address to contact for updates. I apologise if that was not your own website, but it is still not allowed.

I have no other items for sale.

I do not have a website or contact details.

The other poster must of been lying

[softplus261]

Looks like the problem has resolved.

I relisted an ediited version and it's still active.

Thank you for the helpful replies.

I now believe that references to some ports on the motherboard could of been interpreted as telephone numbers (as suggested by xyz307xyz) and misinterpreted by eBay AI

Thank you

[xyz307xyz]

I mentioned there was a website address in the description. There was, of a famous chipset manufacturer.

I mentioned it said "Wi-Fi module is sold separately."

Both of these things have since been removed (along with some other things) and the relisted item has been active for 3 hours.

I never said the OP was trying to sell anything outside of ebay. What I quoted, does not imply that either. I don't really appreciate the accusations.

[clearingmyshelves2025]

I listed an older book yonks ago and gave the ISBN which happened to start with '07...', and as we all know...

And at that time I didn't have a smartphone, mobile phone, whatever, so wasn't aware of the significance of the '07'. So the listing was pulled.

Once I realised I got in touch with Ebay to explain, and all they could suggest was to use a different number. 

Eh?? 

All books have a unique number, and the ISBN breakdown is a code - country, language, publisher, hardback, paperback, etc. So I can't just give it some random number, apart from the fact it would bring up a completely different book. So I started typing out '7', so it looked like this, 0seven94572855. Which looked silly and wouldn't be picked up, but later just added 978 at the beginning which was quite legit as the publishing world was running out of availability of 10 digits numbers so they just added 978 to the beginning. 

Here endeth the lesson.

[softplus261]

I never said the OP was trying to sell anything outside of ebay. What I quoted, does not imply that either. I don't really appreciate the accusations.

What accusations ?

You helped me resolve the issue as I stated in my update.

Thanks again

[xyz307xyz]

In #24 Vinyl says - Another poster reported that you were offering to sell another item which was not listed on eBay, and that you were including a website address to contact for updates. I apologise if that was not your own website, but it is still not allowed.

The first sentence is completely false.

In response to #24, #26 SoftP says - The other poster must of been lying.

I'm the only person who has made comments about what was actually in the listing before it was removed. Nobody else has even mentioned seeing it.

There are plenty of other threads and members, I can spend my time on.

[xyz307xyz]

The ISBN 13 for that book would be 9780794572853

In both numbers the last digit is a check digit.

And it was introduced for compatibility with EAN-13. (Only) the new alternative prefix of 979 increased the availability of numbers.

[johnwash1]

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@softplus261 wrote:

I never said the OP was trying to sell anything outside of ebay. What I quoted, does not imply that either. I don't really appreciate the accusations.

What accusations ?

You helped me resolve the issue as I stated in my update.

Thanks again

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@softplus261 

Glad you've now been able to list it.  Are those photos of the actual board for sale?  They look to me like stock photos, and if I were interested in buying such a motherboard I'd not touch it with a bargepole without seeing genuine photos of what I'm going to get.  Hope you get a sale, I'm just trying to help you see an outsider's perspective.