A friend of mine at work just told me that he had an item on ebay for bid.
He gave out his credit card info and bank account to ebay. The item was on ebay for a few days then it just disappeared. It even had one bid on it. He reported it to Safeharbor on ebay but it will be up to 24hrs for a response. Has anyone ever heard of this happening before?

Ebay has moderators who check items from time to time to see if perhaps that item should not be offered on eBay for various reasons. If they feel the item shouldn't be offered, they end the auction immediately, bids or no bids. This happens with certain types of police related items, license plates, etc. They also pull items considered to be in poor taste.

As far as your co-worker giving a credit card# to eBay, well they require that now. Bank account info?...I don't see why they would need that unless they are automatically deducting payments from his or her account.

I must add that the eBay monitorings are random checks and things don't always get looked at unless a private party notifies eBay about an inappropriate item.

I once had a good size license plate collection and dealt with those items on eBay. They pulled one of my auctions because the plate wasn't old enough to be auctioned. I don't know how they came to that determination but I put it back on the next week and it sold. I guess it's who is moderating at that particular time.

Now let's break into song..."I got the power....!!!!"

:p Bob :p

Here's the list of prohibited items:

List

Thanks for info.
I forwarded it to my friend.
He said that it is a camera and
After the second day on ebay it totally disappeared.

Also ebay does not allow you to put links to commercial webpages within a listing (unless it is too one of their sub entities) such as linking to Nikon's home page for more information on a camera for sale, I suppose it prevents you from bypassing ebay to get someone to your web site for a sale without ebay's cut of the dough, they may not allow any linking at all except for picture linking.

My friend got back a response from ebay today.
They told him that the reason that his item disappeared from ebay was because of a glitch.

Glitch's seem to happen everywhere, is that the same as a computer hic-up? That list seems to cover a large number of things and could be subject to a great deal of individual interpretation.

Chuck

Funny, was just searching eBay for "Greenbrier" and found this:

Police Patch

Brand new, and looks like it is a current design. DEFINITELY not over 50. Yet with only 1 day, 6 hours left, it somehow made it through. It looks like the screening fluctuates. Normally it wouldn't be allowed on eBay.

Hmmm....