I'm shocked - I've had a listing removed as it breaks their rules

[Surfermum]

It's for a swimming nappy/bikini age 0-3 years and they've emailed me to say they've removed it, informed my bidder and said "you're not allowed to list erotica or sexually oriented materials on eBay".

The Ann Summers toffee body sauce is still up and running and has 5 watchers!!!!

The only thing I can think is that in the heading I described it as a swimming nappy cum bikini. Maybe they've picked that up on an automatic search for certain words.

yes I'm sure they just do an autmatic word search - they don't have a man in a darkened room checking every listing its a computer program. Just miss out the offending word and relist.

why wouod you put 'cum' in a listing?

swimmign costume/nappy/bikini

Someone I know recently had her listing for a re-usable nappy removed because it apparently contravened eBay rules. What?

It makes me so cross.

I'm not surprised it was taken off!

will the swimming nappy cum bikini fit my 13 month and last, if so how much are you looking for it

It's just the description I came up with in my head, Misdee, and typed it without giving it a second thought. I'd been going all afternoon and it was the last thing I listed.

I've emailed about it just to check that if I change it to nappy/bikini that that's acceptable.

There's some directive or other that forbids the sale of reusable nappies on ebay, because they, apparently, come under the heading of "Used Underwear"

wtf?

I'd use nappylady classified tbh

Yes it will, Sophie. It fits up to 3 years. It's got 3 sizes of poppers so it adjusts as they get bigger.

How about £3 including postage? I can send you pics so you can decide.

Oh! So it was banned on two counts!!

That sounds great, saves me trundling around trying to find one. Paypal ok, cheque bank transfer? My email is sophweld1 at aol dot com

Great stuff! I'll email you Sophie.

So that breaks the rules and expressed breast milk doesn't.

Since when have reusable nappies not been allowed?

I've bought loads of reusable nappies second-hand on ebay!

There's a heading for reusable nappies- I've sold loads (and loads of trainer pants and swim nappies). It must be the word "cum".

lol, of course it's the word cum.!!!!

How funny is that!

I would have put cum bikini though, its a genuine word!

it's the word 'cum'. they removed a pair of my shoes because I had stated I wore them to the 'erotica' ball.

I think they do a search for specific words and automatically pull any listings with words that match.

it's not a legitimate word! The word is "come"!!! Think you'll find that will be OK.

Thank you - I knew it was a real word and had started to doubt myself!

Well every cloud has as silver lining, Sophie has bought it from me and it turns out she's really close and is coming on our next meet up. (Go on, Sophie you know you want to).

Oh! Is it or isn't it? I'm not going to google it .

if you look up cum in a thesaurus it will tell you that the alternative is "semen"!!

Have looked it up as I was sure you had used it correctly. Of course it has 2 meanings but you did use it in the correct way in your description.

really? My thesaurus only gives the one option.

Anyway - as said before its a word search they do - no judgement involved.