While you can offer most things on eBay, many things are prohibited. Then eBay will eliminate your auction and all quotes will be void, if you attempt to offer any of these things.

Here is eBay’s complete list of restricted or doubtful products:

Academic Software

Airline Company and Transit Related Items

Alcohol (likewise see Wine).

Animals and Wildlife Products.

Anti-circumvention Policy.

Artifacts.

Credibility Disclaimers.

Signed Items.

Batteries.

Beta Software.

Bootleg Recordings.

Brand Misuse.

Brochure Sales.

Catalytic Converters and Test Pipes.

Star Material.

Charity or Fundraising Listings.

Contrast Policy.

Collection and Informational Media.

Tickets and agreements.

Fake Currency and Stamps.

Fake Items.

Credit Cards.

Downloadable Media.

Drugs & Drug Paraphernalia.

Electronic devices Equipment.

Embargoed Goods and Prohibited Countries.

Motivating Infringement Policy.

Occasion Tickets.

Names, signatures and faces.

Firearms, Ammunition, Replicas, and Militaria.

Fireworks.

Food.

Freon and Other Refrigerants.

Present Cards.

Federal Government IDs and Licenses.

Harmful, Restricted, and Perishable Items.

Human Parts and Remains.

Importation of Goods into the United States.

International Trading – Buyers.

International Trading – Sellers.

Lockpicking Devices.

Lottery game Tickets.

Sending By Mail Lists and Personal Information.

Makers’ Coupons.

Fully grown Audiences.

Medical Devices.

Deceptive Titles.

Mod Chips, Game Enhancers, and Boot Discs.

Motion picture Prints.

Multi-level Marketing, Pyramid and Matrix Programs.

OEM Software.

Offending Material.

Pesticides.

Seeds and plants.

Police-Related Items.

Political Memorabilia.

Postage Meters.

Pre-Sale Listings.

Prescription Drugs and Devices.

Advertising Items.

Property.

Remembered Items.

Recordable Media.

Reproduction and Counterfeit Items.

Satellite and Cable Television Descramblers.

Fruit machine.

Stocks and Other Securities.

Stolen Property.

Security Equipment.

Tobacco.

Travel.

Unapproved Copies.

Utilized Clothing.

Service warranties.

Defense & Knives.

White wine (likewise see Alcohol).

The majority of this is extremely apparent – obviously you can’t offer prohibited things like drugs, pyramid plans or taken items. Since there is law versus offering it, nearly whatever that is on the list is there. A few of the factors, however, are a little unusual.

The ‘autographed products’ entry, for instance, does not imply that you can’t offer anything that’s been signed – it simply implies that you can just offer it if it features a certificate of credibility. The ‘artifacts’ entry forbids you from offering Native American tombs; ‘star product’ implies you can’t offer unauthorised images of celebs; ’em bargoed products’ ways that you can’t offer anything that originates from Cuba on and on it goes, and the majority of it you never ever require to understand.

If your selected sort of product appears to be on the list, however, and you’re worried that you may not have the ability to offer it, then examine the complete list at http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html to see whether the product is prohibited totally or there are simply a couple of constraints.

eBay states it will get rid of any products that it thinks break copyright law, however in truth they do not have that lots of people to keep track of the website. You will usually just discover that your auction gets eliminated if somebody chooses to report you – and even then, they may not navigate to it.

Actually, trading on eBay can often feel more complex than it actually is, thanks to all the guidelines surrounding it – not to discuss the lingo. Our next e-mail is a ‘lingo buster’, to assist you find out the language of eBay.