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Pillar of the Community
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I have a broad search screen I use on ebay and I scroll through a lot of listings in the gallery. The past few days I am noticing that a lot of listings have been removed - I click and I get that message. I've never seen anything like this. I'm wondering if this is a technical glitch or if ebay is enforcing aggressive new policies. This is happening at such a high frequency that there's no way these can all be user initiated. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What items are being removed?
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Pillar of the Community
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What items are being removed? There's no common thread - pretty much a random assortment. Ironically, there's a Chinese seller listing fake slabs that are up. The removed listings I see seem normal. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
570 Posts |
Otto, if you're experiencing the same thing I am, it's some kind of glitch. When you click on a listing and get this error page...  ... just refresh the page, and the listing should appear. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1326 Posts |
beem, thanks for the feedback. For me refreshing only works sometimes. I could tell it was a glitch because sometimes I was able to access another item from the same seller. Then from there I could look at his whole display. I tried to bring it to ebay's attention by leaving feedback on my search page. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
570 Posts |
You can also try removing everything from the URL after the item number. The item number goes after the url, so for example, if the item number is 123123123, the URL would be: https://www.ebay.com/itm/123123123 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You can also try removing everything from the URL after the item number I tried copying the item number and pasting it into the search box, such as in the screenshot you provided. This did work. Thanks for suggestion. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
570 Posts |
I removed all my ebay cookies and browser cache and I don't think I'm having this issue anymore. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
509 Posts |
ebay just removed one of my coin listings yesterday. The automated email from them in part "didn't follow our Replica coins and currency policy." The coin in question was genuine. I called them and told them the coin had been purchased from them 2 years previous. Quoted date of purchase, name of seller. They weren't interested. The tail end of their email "This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence."
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Ebay just removed one of my coin listings yesterday. The automated email from them in part "didn't follow our Replica coins and currency policy." The coin in question was genuine. I called them and told them the coin had been purchased from them 2 years previous. Quoted date of purchase, name of seller. They weren't interested. The tail end of their email "This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence." In such a circumstance, I suspect you may have used a trigger word somewhere in the listing? Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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sidekick, what specifically got removed?
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Forum Dad
United States
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I called them and told them the coin had been purchased from them 2 years previous. Well, it wasn't purchased from "them" that's why it doesn't matter to them. Just because you buy something on ebay, Amazon, etc doesn't mean it's genuine. Like nss said though, what exactly was it? Post some images here, please. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes, would love to see pics of the subject coin. Thanks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
509 Posts |
Images as requested. This coin was previously in an ANACS holder MS 62 cracked out by myself and posted raw in the listing. Could ANACS have missed a counterfeit or a replica? Possibly. Don't know at this point.   |
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ebay has rules. Now they are more honored in the breach than the observance", but they do have rules. Counterfeit & replica coins are a hard violation of the rules. As is a numeric grade from a non-approved company - words, number, pictures, it's all prohibited. ebay cannot - obviously - review every single listing before it's posted. It would solve the world's unemployment problem, but it would also cost $10 per listing. So they use software and are forever tweaking it, improving it, fixing it when it makes stupid decisions. Two possibilities * You should not have been able to buy it two years ago as the listing violated ebay's policies - and today you got flagged * The software did something stupid
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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words, number, pictures, it's all prohibited. . Possibly words. I did give a possible grade for the coin down in the description area but I made it clear it was ONLY my personal opinion and other opinions may vary. Did not mention any TPG. |
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Posted 07/20/2023 09:38 am
