eBay Deleting All Bitcoin Listings

[Legion]

See topic. eBay is currently aggressively deleting all Bitcoin listings, claiming that selling them "violates intellectual property and copyright."

Your listing has been removed.

Due to potential violations of copyright and/or trademark laws, we do not allow the sale of online game characters or gaming accounts. This also includes selling virtual items from such games. These games and their content remain the property of the copyright holder and as such cannot be listed on our site except by the copyright holder or their licensee. Please do not relist this item.


We don't let sellers list virtual products such as online game characters, accounts, currency, codes that can be redeemed for in-game items, or related software. This helps protect the people who originally created the products and own the rights to reproduce and sell them.

Here's more information on our policy:
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Please be aware that any additional violations of this policy may result in the suspension of your account. eBay understands that you may be concerned about this situation.



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Pretty disgusting huh?

[kwukduck]

ebay = paypal so it's to be expected

[sirj]

Outrageous. There's no money like new money.

[jackjack]

Seriously wtf...
They honestly don't know what bitcoin is about, or "and so it begins" ?

@kwukduck: sadly true

[Astro]

Sell USB sticks that just incidentally have wallet.dat files on them with 100 BTC.  People sell "collectible ammunition boxes" on ebay all the time that just incidentally contain the ammunition.

[kr105]

So, only Satoshi is able to sell bitcoins on ebay?

[Legion]

So, only Satoshi is able to sell bitcoins on ebay?

Apparently.

[SpaceLord]

Game currency? WTF?

[jerfelix]

I did a search, and I see 25 listings that are out there, 24 of which seem to be for Bitcoins:
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=bitcoins&_sacat=0&_odkw=bitcois&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

So maybe you were just doing something wrong.  Learn from the ones that are being successful.
(or maybe these haven't yet been deleted...)

[gene]

Yeah, like ebay-pal are going to help chop down their own money tree. I'm surprised it took them this long.

Sell USB sticks that just incidentally have wallet.dat files on them with 100 BTC.  People sell "collectible ammunition boxes" on ebay all the time that just incidentally contain the ammunition.

Interesting.

[opticbit]

sell carrots

Maybe bitbills

[BombaUcigasa]

What about selling paperclips, with a note containing an e-wallet account or something like that. I mean a small physical object and attached information on how to obtain the bitcoins.

People sell "collectible ammunition boxes" on ebay all the time that just incidentally contain the ammunition.

Wat?!

Game currency?

Wat?!

[virtualfaqs]

I did a search, and I see 25 listings that are out there, 24 of which seem to be for Bitcoins:
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=bitcoins&_sacat=0&_odkw=bitcois&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

So maybe you were just doing something wrong.  Learn from the ones that are being successful.
(or maybe these haven't yet been deleted...)

Your competitors report you or anyone you pissed off, or eBay rules followers.

[NO_SLAVE]

DE%TH TO PAYPAL.  Financial dictators 
Id say even worse than uncle gorilla himself.

[yeponlyone]

What about selling paperclips, with a note containing an e-wallet account or something like that. I mean a small physical object and attached information on how to obtain the bitcoins.

um, what about an online picture of a bunch of numbers that turns out to be a valid keypair?

[Adam]

Selling anything intangible on ebay is a bad idea to begin with because of the risk of paypal chargebacks.  Even if you pull the selling a flash drive that just happens to contain BTC scheme you still will be unlikely to win any chargeback from a scammer.  Ebay/paypal always side with the buyer in any case and you can bet the person handling the dispute won't bother looking into exactly what bitcoin is before rendering a verdict.

[gigabytecoin]

Sell USB sticks that just incidentally have wallet.dat files on them with 100 BTC.  People sell "collectible ammunition boxes" on ebay all the time that just incidentally contain the ammunition.

Proof? I can't find any record of ammo boxes containing ammunition.

[virtualfaqs]

Selling anything intangible on ebay is a bad idea to begin with because of the risk of paypal chargebacks.  Even if you pull the selling a flash drive that just happens to contain BTC scheme you still will be unlikely to win any chargeback from a scammer.  Ebay/paypal always side with the buyer in any case and you can bet the person handling the dispute won't bother looking into exactly what bitcoin is before rendering a verdict.

Do you know if it's possible to restrict your listing to high feedback buyers now? That might help stop some of the scamming.

[Adam]

Selling anything intangible on ebay is a bad idea to begin with because of the risk of paypal chargebacks.  Even if you pull the selling a flash drive that just happens to contain BTC scheme you still will be unlikely to win any chargeback from a scammer.  Ebay/paypal always side with the buyer in any case and you can bet the person handling the dispute won't bother looking into exactly what bitcoin is before rendering a verdict.

Do you know if it's possible to restrict your listing to high feedback buyers now? That might help stop some of the scamming.

It still doesn't protect you in the instance where the account of someone with high feedback is phished and used to buy your auctions.

[Astro]

Sell USB sticks that just incidentally have wallet.dat files on them with 100 BTC.  People sell "collectible ammunition boxes" on ebay all the time that just incidentally contain the ammunition.

Proof? I can't find any record of ammo boxes containing ammunition.

I'm not going to link you to the auctions because I don't want to get them reported.  I'll just say, you look for people selling "cartridge boxes."  If the prices are unusually high for an empty box with no historical value, you know there's a behind the scenes ammo purchase going on.