I spent about 2 hours crafting a really nice listing for a camcorder I am selling. I uploaded it last night and (unusually) it didn't appear in the search pages after a couple of hours. This morning I have 2 nasty emails from eBay saying the item has been cancelled, because a) I suggested cash was acceptable in payment, and b) that I had the item advertised elsewhere.
Apparently, you have to say "cash on collection", otherwise you are encouraging buyers to send cash by post, which isn't allowed. All I said was "cash or cheque would be fine". Not allowed. I can see why they object to b), although I've seen many listings with this in.
I wonder if it was anything to do with my saying "I will reluctantly accept Paypal, but due to high charges I would prefer other methods of payment"? It looks like you can no longer delete Paypal as a method of payment - it's by default, and you can't uncheck the box.
Anyway, they seem to have deleted it completely, so I have all the work to do again. Why couldn't they just suspend it, allow me to make two minor changes, and then re-list?
Sorry, I'm a bit grumpy. Nothing to do with any New Year resolutions, promise.