Confused about Ebay and Yahoo auctions Please help me figure this out

[jlee75]

Ok, i tried selling some bottles of champagne (rare) on Ebay. I followed their rules about it being not for consumption and that it has to be a collectible. But they canned that auction. I see today that there's another auction for pretty much the same item. But that auction's still going on.

I go onto yahoo and they have alcohol selling like crazy over there. Am I missing something here? I don't know any other way to use Ebay's policy regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages. They say that it cannot be sold for consumption (yahoo sells for consumption). Ebay says that you have to say that it is a sealed bottle (which these are) and that it cannot be found on retail shelves (which it can't because I brought these from Japan). Plus these are vintage and cannot be found anywhere except from a store that has these on reserve. I have one bottle from 88 and another from 90.

I'm just trying to figure out a way to sell these.

TIA

 

[vegetation]

Ebay has a Nazi force that makes you guilty until proven innocent, and then that's only for the powersellers. Everyone else is just guilty forever. Not much you can do other than move your auction elsewhere where they don't care.

 

[Logix]

So then just list on Yahoo.

Otherwise, shoot eBay an email about your situation, or alternately, seek justice against those other listings that haven't gotten canned by reporting them.

 

[dude]

Anal Ebay Cops.

Beware! They are watching, you are not alone!
But really, they are a bunch of annoying people snooping on auctions, and don't do a good job of it. Do a search for "microsoft windows" which is supposedly illegal to sell because of their "no software" policy.

 

[Johnnie]

tell me about it.. i have been suspended 3 times in the past 2 months!!!
I even had written permission from Microsoft to sell the particular item...and Ebay still ends my auction..go figure

 

[Logix]

<<Do a search for "microsoft windows" which is supposedly illegal to sell because of their "no software" policy.>>

What's the problem with selling Windows? Here's eBay's software policy. Basically, you can't sell software on CD-R's, OEM versions, academic versions, or beta versions of software. The listings that come up seem fairly benign.

What's the problem?