I don’t know if it matters at this point. But now I’m curious about Ebay and how it works – or doesn’t. My original posting of the six-key Hammy Hamilton flute that I offered on Ebay/US was deleted. Ebay said this was because I said the flute would come from Ireland- though my address still appeared as in the US. Did Dale, who likes to censor and delete posts, contact Ebay/US and tell them how mean I had been to John McCain and Jim Stone?
So I offered the Hammy on Ebay/UK, where the War on Scam isn’t as active as in the US. So far, so good. But when I did a search for the flute on Ebay/US the flute didn’t appear - even though I listed “Worldwide” as the parameter for the search.
Does anybody have an idea what is going on with Ebay? Does it not cover Ebay/UK when it does a worldwide search? Is the worldwide search really “worldwide,” does anybody know? Or just the U.S. and Canada? Is there a way you can make the search truly worldwide? Or do you have to go separately to each country to perform an international search?
I’ll continue with EBay because there isn’t really an alternative. It’s a bit like U.S. homeland security. In their efforts to make life safer for everybody they have made things worse for everybody. There are still terrorists and there are still scammers. And over-reacting bureaucrats who want to control everything.
If you want to see the flute, it should still be here: Hamilton Six-Key Flute
Unless a Nigerian sees it first. Or EBay discovers that Ireland is no longer a part of England.
It looks as though Ebay is taking the ships to location as the indicator as to where to display the flute for sale posting.
You appear to have ship to the UK set on the auction, this means it is not showing up anywhere other than Ebay UK - it doesn’t show up on on French/Dutch/German Ebay or even Irish Ebay.
Yes, I see that now. Not choosing the correct shipping options caused the problem.
Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll let the auction go ahead as it stands and hope for the best.
That is a drag! Now the potential buyers will be suspicious, thinking you are up to something. I was selling a nice GMT Master Rolex on eBay and I made the mistake of saying that if you use Paypal, I would have to charge 3%. They pulled my listing, as Paypal is owned by eBay, and they thought it was derogatory. Now you have to re-list it, and I don’t think they will give you credit on the listing price.
I’m not getting the problem, here. Why wouldn’t someone be suspicious of this? It looks like it might be a scam from someone without the brainpower to cover their tracks, to me.
Oh. I get it. Humor. Heh-heh. Hah-ha. Oh, dear. Stop it, you’re killing me.
I’ve noticed that sales of everything in general have been slowing down on eBay over the last 6 months. People aren’t even bothering to list stuff that they would have listed in the past, such as Myford Lathes.
The thrill is gone, so I hear, as some of my friends say that back in the early years, eBay was a great place to buy and sell things, but apparently a slime factor has worked its way just a bit too far onto the eBay scene, which seems to do with the buyer/seller rating system, and how it has become abused, more notably by sellers.
I did the same thing awhile back and my listing was pulled. Guess the rules say if you accept PayPal for an E-Bay sale, you can’t put certain conditions on it. I didn’t want to accept it for credit card sales. Wonder how they find out about these things?