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Hazardous materials policy
 

Hello all,

I’ve had some listing removed by eBay because Of hazardous materials policy. I ship it by usps first class mail but in the listing I selected standard shipping and I didn’t indicate that it’ll be shipped by usps. Can someone explain how they were able to remove the listing please?

Thank you.

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what makes you think this has got anything to do with USPS / shipping?

Is it not due to the item listed?

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The message I received from eBay makes me think that. It says it in the message.

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I think I'm not understanding something here.

From what I know USPS and eBay doesn't talk to each other?
If USPS has an issue with the content then they'd have told you directly I'd think

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what are you selling?

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If USPS bans it,so would the other carriers.

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Usps doesn’t ban it and it’s not banned by other carriers

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The heck?! I've never experienced this myself.

What does the tracking update say btw?

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If you relist it, they'll still take it down. Only the message won't be the same.

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Have you faced this before?

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No, I haven't had this particular message but that's clearly a boilerplate message. I can always tell when I see one. I've received a few messages that are similar in context but when I relist the item, they'll take it down a few months later and send a different vague message.

I've come to realise It's just lazy justification for items they consider to be in the grey area.

Can't find a good reason to remove a sellers' item? Make minor edits to a template and throw it at him.