So we can't sell holsters on Ebay?

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but we can sell gun magazines and slides. Does that make sense to anyone or am I just not getting it?

they took down my auction and it says in their letter that it is allowed. But they still took off my auction. I now have to type up my description again.


This is what I got from them

The auction-style listing was removed because it violated the eBay Firearms, Weapons, and Knives policy. All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has
been canceled.



The sale of weapons is highly regulated by the government, and these items can harm the eBay Community. For these reasons, eBay restricts the sale of weapons to a very few types, and these sales can take place only under very specific conditions.

For example, members are permitted to sell certain legal gun parts and accessories, including:
- Barrels
- Butt plates
- Holsters
- Firing pins
- Pistol grips
- Stocks
- Scopes
- Trigger assemblies
- Trigger guards

However, the sale of certain parts and accessories are prohibited by California law. As a result, certain types are *not* allowed on eBay. These items include:
- Products that work with short-barreled shotguns or short-barreled rifles
- Fully automatic weapons
- Large-capacity magazines
- Multiburst trigger activators
- Camouflaging firearm containers

Sellers are also not permitted to list the following firearm-related items:
- Silencers, including airsoft, replica, or toy silencers
- Converters (items that provide automatic capability to firearms)
- Kits that allow users to build illegal, firearm-related items such as firearms, flares, flare launchers, flare guns, flare gun receivers, silencers, and short barrels
 
How about you tell us what your auction was for?

Otherwise we're totally in the dark here.

And yes, you can sell holsters on eBay. Folks sell _tons_ of holsters on eBay.

Did you put something in your ad indicating that it's for an "assault" weapon?

-MV
 
Well, it is their marble game so they can make the rules

and there is not much you can do about it that I can see. This is their private enterprise and they set the rules. Frustrating? Yes, I am sure it is.
 
it was a 1911 holster with a picture of a 1911 inside. i had the words in red. GUN IS NOT INCLUDED! HOLSTER ONLY!! i guess the mistake was on their part.
 
it was a 1911 holster with a picture of a 1911 inside. i had the words in red. GUN IS NOT INCLUDED! HOLSTER ONLY!! i guess the mistake was on their part.

DING DING DING!

They obviously can't catch everything, but when you show a firearm, you are asking for it to get pulled just out of their over-caution.
 
If I remember correctly I read somewhere its against their TOS to even put the picture of a gun in the auctions....
 
The picture of the gun was the problem, methinks. I was browsing ebay for a purse/messenger bag w/ a pistol compartment and ran across a guy who used bananas instead of firearms - he was quite clever about it, comparing the fruit to a "certain Italian object you might try to fit into a firearm compartment that measured XXX by XXX inches..."

Ebay - annoying, but oh so useful. :banghead:
 
However, the sale of certain parts and accessories are prohibited by California law. As a result, certain types are *not* allowed on eBay. These items include:
- Products that work with short-barreled shotguns or short-barreled rifles
- Fully automatic weapons
- Large-capacity magazines
- Multiburst trigger activators
- Camouflaging firearm containers
Camouflaging firearm containers??

Like brown, green or sand-colored suitcases? Guitar cases? Cello cases? :D

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If you want to show a gun item with a gun in it for reference, use a bright orange toy one.

Their customer service monkeys will pull it, otherwise.
 
Sometime back, (before I became a member here) I placed a removable rear sight for an AR on ebay. My auction was removed by ebay as well because I had the gaul to mention AR-15 in my ad, and of course, an AR-15 is an "assault weapon". :barf:

I simply re-wrote the add, and replaced AR-15 with "scary black rifle"...That didn't bother them at all, and the rear sight sold just fine! :D

SINCE then, I've pretty much written ebay off.
 
Manedwolf, I have

a problem with you referring to people as "customer service monkeys." I think that is disrespectful and insulting. It is not, IMHO, following the principles of the The High Road. Thanks for considering my opinion.
 
I got my PayPal / eBay account closed with "no appeal possible" (their words) for using PayPal to move funding for magazines. I don't find your holster debacle that far off.

PayPal / eBay are based in California under California gun laws (and other laws) in addition to being rigorously anti-gun as well as having a complex that seems to make them want to feel more "official" than they already are. Never you mind the fact that if you dig deep enough in their fine print there are many statements to the effect of "We are not a bank, therefore we are not subject to any of the official rules of banks."

Incongruous, isn't it?
 
I simply re-wrote the add, and replaced AR-15 with "scary black rifle"...That didn't bother them at all, and the rear sight sold just fine!

A lot of folks put "Colt/Bushmaster/RRA" as a pseudonym for "AR-15", seems to work just fine, since there might conceivably be some non-assault weapon made by those companies.

-MV
 
They'll pull any auction that's realted to any non-legal CA item as well. My auction got pulled because my cleaning kit was related to the AK. :barf:
 
They'll pull any auction that's realted to any non-legal CA item as well.

Yeah that's pat of the problem....they don't allow anything that is illegal ANYWHER in the US. Since the PRK is generallly the most restrictive, alot of "legal items" get banned. Also, they have people/programs(more likely) searching for keywords, to items that the won't allow. So it can be kinda "hit or miss" a far as end up being allowed and what's not.

Basically, avoid eBay/Paypal for gun related stuff, and use Gunbroker, GunsAmerica, Auction Arms, or the buy/sell section here or TFL (or other forums) if possible. Let's not support the anit's amy mpre than we have to.

(Having said that, I DO sell stuff on eBay, as its still the most effective way to get maximum $$$$ for some stuff. I just don't use it for gun related stuff any more).
 
Manedwolf, I have
a problem with you referring to people as "customer service monkeys." I think that is disrespectful and insulting. It is not, IMHO, following the principles of the The High Road. Thanks for considering my opinion.

Having had to deal with said customer service people, who seem to be hired on a sheer low-cost basis rather than anything to do with skill and/or intelligence, I stand by my assertion.

eBay is not a company that understands what good customer service is. And people there routinely pull auctions seemingly arbitrarily, even non-gun-related ones, while happily allowing all sorts of scam items, counterfeits, and pirated media.

So until they start hiring people with a grain of intelligence to deal with the customers, perhaps spending a bit to do so, yes, I'll call them that.

I have no tolerance for incompetence permitted as a means of cost savings. Ebay desperately needs some competitors to knock them back into a competitive business model.
 
Sounds like a poor excuse

to me to disrespect people because, in your opinion, they are less intelligent than you or somehow not as good as you are. It smacks of elitism on your part as far as I am concerned. We human beings on this earth were created equal as far as I am concerned and we all should, at the very least, respect one another, especially when they are attempting to do their daily work and make a living for themselves and their families. There is never a time that is appropriate or excusable to refer to other people as monkeys.
 
to me to disrespect people because, in your opinion, they are less intelligent than you or somehow not as good as you are. It smacks of elitism on your part as far as I am concerned. We human beings on this earth were created equal as far as I am concerned and we all should, at the very least, respect one another, especially when they are attempting to do their daily work and make a living for themselves and their families. There is never a time that is appropriate or excusable to refer to other people as monkeys.

I agree.

It is thoroughly reprehensible, and those monkeys must be outraged at being compared to ebay employees.
 
not sure it's a good comparison....

as monkeys aren't by nature given to turn off their brains and act differently out of deference to some perceived offense of someones PC sensibilities.

Just look what that chimp did to Kramer!
 
We human beings on this earth were created equal as far as I am concerned

Nope, sorry, objectivist. :) To me, saying everyone is equal is to celebrate mediocrity, tolerate incompetence and sloth, and be intolerant of those who excel due to determination and innate abilities determined by genetics. Equal rights, yes. Equal abilities? Hell no. Stephen Hawking is not the same thing as a dull-eyed fast food employee who has to think really hard to remember fries or onion rings.

And there's a difference between doing a job and doing it well. If they had exemplary customer service, I'd not call them that.
 
My last word on this I promise

and that is, You are still making excuses for your poor behavior.
 
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