How To Prevent Your Ebay Auction From Being Removed
By Brian
Have you ever had an auction removed by eBay, but you weren't aware you had broken any rules?

I can sympathise with you. I've been there. Several times in fact.

As you know, eBay is a site which is self-regulated by its members. Any member can report another member's auctions as being in breach of an eBay rule. You as the seller, are unaware this has happened. You don't know that your auction is the subject of a review by one of eBay's legion of auction checkers. They are judge and jury - and the first you know about it is the email telling you that your auction has been removed, your fees refunded and warning you not to do it again!

An unfortunate consequence of this particular eBay policy is that you are guilty until proven innocent. You're left with the almost impossible task of persuading eBay that a mistake has been a made.

If you're innocent and your auction has been pulled unreasonably, I thought it might be useful if we discussed a tactic which might help in preventing your auctions from being removed in future.

I mentioned that if your auction is reported, it will get reviewed by eBay. This is the key for you.

Create a statement about your auction covering any potential rules question which you may be susceptible to.

For example, as you might know, I write ebooks. When I first started selling these on eBay, I was getting my ebook auctions removed by eBay on the basis that they had been reported for breach of copyright. Seeing as I had written every word, I was bemused as to who's copyright I was breaching!

What I suspected was that a competitor was doing the reporting! It might equally have been a youngster with more time on their hands than was good for them, just being mischievous.

So, I created a statement which I use to this day on all my ebook auctions. It simply says:

[Note for eBay]
[I am the

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