Starting June 15, 2021, items showing sexual content or sexually suggestive poses will no longer be allowed on eBay.com. The “Everything Else > Adult Only” will no longer be available as a category. No new listings will be allowed in the Adult Only category and good-til-cancelled listings will be ended upon their renewal date.
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First – I had no idea that area of eBay even existed.
Second – I just went and looked and perhaps everything has already been mostly purged, but the only things I saw listed were nipple jewelry and adult websites.
Seems like nothing lost here.
eBay has been around 26 years with the dot com boom, and they’re doing this now? I don’t get it.
Not that I use it anymore, its become notorious for scam buyers where sellers can be ripped off for false claims about items that didn’t arrive, or claiming the item received wasn’t what was ordered and get a refund as well as stealing the item.
I’m surprised a site that looks and acts as if it were built on 1990s design and based on nothing more than the honor system with ridiculous fees is still going to be honest.
Oh yeah. Where I’m at, we don’t have a cheap trackable overseas delivery option, but the buyers refuse to pay for anything else, even fighting that sometimes. Had a buyer in Azerbaijan, of course it took more than 45 days to deliver, and of course he complains. eBay literally forces me to refund, even though I showed them that the buyer insisted on that delivery method, that there is no tracking possible, and it’s not unusual for a delivery overseas to take 90 days. The eBay rep basically wanted the case resolved as fast as possible, regardless whether it was right or not. The Azerbaijan account disappeared soon after, likely his modus operandi. Anyway, after that, allowable destinations are now U.S. and Canada, tracking required, no buyer reviews until product at destination, no exceptions. Doesn’t really matter, haven’t used eBay in a couple of years now as either a buyer or seller.
Just to clarify, the “anything else” that the buyers insist on, and sometimes even fight that, is Canada Post surface delivery! Like $20/kg.
Corporate right wing cancel culture.
My big worry is how loosely it’ll be interpreted. As a collector of rpg games and Pulp magazines, books, movies, etc.., the ability to buy and sell will be diminished based on cover art, internal art, content, etc.
Yeah..,that’s what is wrong with this country..lack of a sex ban on eBay. Really, the stupidity never stops.
I wonder how they are going to enforce that? It doesn’t sound like something a computer program could reliably do, but if there is anything American corporations hate, it’s hiring a lot of people. Maybe this will create a lot of jobs in India.
Also, this also give some kind of alternative to Ebay a shot in the arm. Ebay deciding not to handle firearms sales allowed firearms auction websites to survive, but they are quite specialized and do not try to compete with Ebay. I wonder if the porn market is big enough to get some kind of competition going?
Ebay I know an Ebay seller or two, and from what they say, Ebay reminds me of AT&T the height of its monopoly power. Lily Tomlin summed up their attitude as “We don’t care, we don’t have to; we’re the phone company!”
That’s no exaggeration. Their customer service is shit. You are forbidden from talking to the same rep twice, so you have to explain everything from scratch every time. If this isn’t enough to make you fuck off, they will address your issue however it’s easiest for them – you can like that or again, off is the direction in which you can fuck.
I agree. Small sellers made Ebay a big company, but now Ebay acts like it wants them gone. I think they just want to deal with big sellers, not individuals selling individual items. That’s a business somebody else might pick up.
Agree 100%. My experience is that they always side with the buyer, even letting things go like backing out of a deal, which is supposed to be like the paramount offense a buyer can make. But then I’ve seen some buyers say that they always side with the seller, which leads me to wonder how bad does a buyer have to be to get to that point?