[meteorite-list] Meteorite Auction Days Numbered?

[Gary Fujihara]

Ebay turned off international site visibility on most of my auctions too as I posted a few days ago.  Nothing changed in my listings or in my descriptions other than weights and prices, but ebay chose to change some kind of policy without warning, which thereby resulted in the action they took.  I spent several hours trying to deduce what was going on, and received suggestions from several list members, to whom I am thankful.  

By trial and error, I removed lines of text from my descriptions until I no longer got ebay's message, which I have copied below.  Apparently they don't like Big Kahuna Meteorites, scale cubes, my shipping information or country names in my text descriptions, and when they found them would send me this message and turn off international site visibility.  With the text deletions, I now retain international site visibility, but have had to cull most of my text descriptions, in some instances down to a single sentence!  

I apologize to any of my friends who visit my auctions, for the sparse descriptions you now see, but at least now you know the reason behind the change.

gary

> You recently created or revised this eBay listing that included the International Site Visibility feature:
> 
> 330619432797 NEW! NWA 6927 Diogenite 2.76g Fresh Crusted Full Slice,
> 
> However, we had to remove International Site Visibility from your listing. Of course, we won't be charging you the fee for it.
> 
> Because the laws and eBay policies vary by country, sometimes items that can be listed in your country can't be listed internationally. It's also possible that the listing itself violated an eBay policy in another country. In situations like this, we automatically remove the International Site Visibility feature from the listing.
> 
> We're sorry for the inconvenience this causes.
> 
> To find out about our global selling requirements, visit:
> http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/questions/sell_international_requirements.html
> 
> For more information, contact customer support by clicking the "Help" link at the top of any eBay page and then clicking the "Contact Us" button.
> 
> 

On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Adam Hupe wrote:

> You are not kidding.  EBay turned off the international site visibility option on most of my auctions. I am going to have to go to fixed pricing, buy-it-now, store type sales soon or suspend eBay sales altogether.  International bidders can still find these auctions by going to ebay.com instead of ebay.uk if this helps.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Adam
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Gary Fujihara
Big Kahuna Meteorites (IMCA#1693)
105 Puhili Place, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720
http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/
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