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Thu Sept 3 2026 14:43:51

When eBay 'Have one, list it' Feature Backfires

By: Reader

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Dear Ina,
This is getting old and it has happened more than once. I have an item and I see that several have been listed and sold on eBay. eBay says, "have one, list it" so I do. 

In this case a VHS tape of Banned In America (which other sites have no problem with). It not only lists, but even relists, so it has been listed for months. 

The policy violation for this documentary, Violence. Why does eBay tell me to list something it obviously knows I can't? 

Of course the appeal robot denied my appeal as it always does. On another item, when I called customer service to ask why other were listed with no problem, I was told they would also be removed...they never were.
R.



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by: tuneseller425 This user has validated their user name.

Thu Sep 3 15:15:05 2026

eBay must hate you almost as much as they hate me.

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by: etectra This user has validated their user name.

Thu Sep 3 21:18:31 2026

Yet they allow millions of movies with graphic violence and other crimes.

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by: Snapped This user has validated their user name.

Fri Sep 4 10:17:45 2026

‘Be your filter.’

Those are three words (in this case, there are countless other circumstances where it applies) to add to the ever encompassing and always true and applicable phrase -

‘One can NEVER rely on eBay to…’.

Learn it, know it, live it.  They certainly do.



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