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Re: This makes me SICK!
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lugnet.market.auction
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:38:09 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> DaveE and Bryan Wong (1) together have it backwards.
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> Putting information in the listing about where to get it cheaper *is*
> against the eBay TOS. Example provided by DaveE (quoted below).
Huh... didn't know that... I wonder if putting a link would be ok, seeing as
it's not content which should fall under jurisdiction of Ebay-- tho the link
itself would be... Something along the lines of:
"<a href=www.walmart.com>Click here to see where I got this dirt cheap</a>"
or:
"<a href=my_page>Click here to see where I got this item</a>"
As opposed to saying:
"Click here to see where YOU can get this item dirt cheap"...
Then on that link (no longer being under Ebay's jurisdiction), you could say
"I got X for a cheap price, and you can too-- see: www.walmart.com". Hmm...
'Course that's just a guess-- Maybe Ebay would prevent you from making that
link? I dunno... I haven't made a full read through the Ebay TOS (obviously)...
> However: the $9.99 information auction is already against the
> eBay TOS, so the $0.02 auction would also be.
> The following is forbidden:
> "Offering in a listing the opportunity to purchase
> the item or other merchandise outside of eBay. "
> Furthermore, in my opinion, this is conceptually the same as a catalog sale,
> which is listed separately:
> "listings of catalogs from which buyers may directly
> order items are prohibited. "
Well, that's good enough for me-- I just ratted on him. I think. I'm still
rather new to reporting this sort of thing to Ebay...
DaveE
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| (...) Well-- I just heard back from Ebay and they seem to disagree... they said "We have ... determined that the auction falls within our policy guidelines"... they didn't really say why or anything... DaveE (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| DaveE and Bryan Wong (1) together have it backwards. Putting information in the listing about where to get it cheaper *is* against the eBay TOS. Example provided by DaveE (quoted below). Offering the same item for less than someone else *is not* (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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