I am a seller on Ebay. I sell gun parts. I've been selling for well over 10 years.
I've used Pay Pal the entire time.
After Sandy Hook, Ebay/Pay Pal knee jerked and stopped gun related sales.
They jumped on the Obama band wagon.
They banned any gun related items except grips.
They forbid pictures of actual firearms in any ad. Grips had to be shown on those blue guns if you wanted to show them mounted.
All of us sellers moved, en masse, to Gunbroker. Gunbroker's sales skyrocketed. Ebay lost millions of dollars. Tens of millions.
It took 2 or 3 years but Ebay "decided" that selling parts wasn't such a bad thing. However, they limited it to certain parts
and forbid others. They forbid mags that hold more than 10 rounds. They forbid bad things like sears and disconnectors since they can be
used to convert a gun to full auto. Even if they can't be converted, they forbid them. No sears. No disconnectors. Period.
They forbid certain items from the bad, evil rifles. Most anything AR related is a no-no.
Assault weapons are a bad word. If it's for an assault weapon, Ebay wants no part of it.
After all, the snowflakes who do shop there can't see anything assault weapon related.
e.g. About 1 month ago, Ebay suddenly closed my auctions for Hi Point mags. I did a decent job selling them on Ebay.
They sent me an email stating that they violated their policy of selling assault weapon mags.
I called them and told them that they were 8 round mags, as stated in the ad, and they were for a pistol. All Ebay legal.
They said that they were also used in an assault weapon and have been banned. They were new to the list of
banned items. I stated that they were pistol mags, not assault weapon mags, but they said that they also fit in the Hi Point
assault weapon as well. Hi Point assault weapon? seriously? Yes, I guess their carbine attachment made them an assault weapon.
Case closed. No recourse.
So, I kept thinking about all of the Glock 9mm mags they allow to be sold. Hundreds of ads. Because I was pizzed, I wanted
to ask them why they allow Glock 9mm mags to be sold but not Hi Point mags. I wanted to show them how dumb they
were because they build ARs in 9mm specifically to accept Glock 9mm mags of any size. I just kept my mouth shut. By telling
Ebay about the Glock mag ARs, they would lose a lot of income. However, I'd be screwing fellow gun part sellers. I
didn't want to ruin it for my brothers. I'm sure Ebay will figure it out some day.
Point? I'm guessing something you sell violates their policy some how. It's as simple as that. Ebay has given me 20x the business
Gunbroker did. I'm not going to cut off my nose to spite my face. They have their rules. Their auction site. Their rules. Just like
any place we deal with every day.