My listing has been removed for being offensive.

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We had to remove your listing because it didn’t follow our Offensive material policy. Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren’t allowed.

Obviously eBay thinks it goes against their guidelines. I had no clue and I'm rather embarrassed.

What would you assume I was selling? I want to know if it's obvious to everyone but me.

Thanks.

@FatOaf Oh so glad it's not just me that remembers it. It is the most memorable (and useful) bit of the series for me.

Well, no idea what you were trying to sell.

OP had already said what it was 45 minutes before....

"Tag"? 😕

That said, I would struggle with older things like pyramids, great wall of China, roman empire, stonehenge

It's always a good pub quiz question to ask in which country the world's biggest pyramid is located - nobody ever guesses at Mexico, if they don't already know it.

Stonehenge isn't necessarily all that old, either - at least not as we see it now. Some of the fallen stones were set back upright and concreted in less than 100 years ago!

No idea.m

Tag = Luggage label giving name and school / home address of the child.

@TeenDivided - If anyone were to ask me to list my favourite books of all time, there would be many worthy works of literature included (Buddenbrooks, Dubliners, Ethan Frome, The Way We Live Now, etc.), but I would absolutely have to include Jennings Follows a Clue. Sadly, not the story with the famous padlock combination.

@CustardySergeant I just wrote exactly what the Amazon description was.

Well ignoring the lack of historical knowledge, I am struggling to see how an evacuee costume, or indeed a Victorian costume could be deemed offensive.

Have you asked ebay why?

Yes, evacuees were tagged so people knew who they were.

No self respecting evacuee dress up kit should be without the gas mask box.
Easily recreated by wrapping a dishwasher table box in brown paper and adding string or cord.

But anyway OP to answer your question, no it would not have been obvious to me that a fancy dress costume would be offensive and against their policies.

Maybe they ban all WWII memorabilia (I am sure they don't, by the way, you can for example sell medals on there) and "evacuee" brought something up?

I really do think you need to ask them.

My youngest is in her last year of primary so luckily no more idiotic mistakes can be made!!

In fact they have an entire WWII fancy dress section: www.ebay.co.uk/b/World-War-II-Fancy-Dress/175648/bn_851833

Completely confused OP.

Although now I am wondering if they think evacuee means the same as deportee...

No self respecting evacuee dress up kit should be without the gas mask box.
Easily recreated by wrapping a dishwasher table box in brown paper and adding string or cord.

To be authentic it should also find some way of bending the child's legs so she looks like she has rickets, as 80% of children in London did in the 1930s. A typical refugee would have been malnourished and dirty, not dressed up like one of the Andrews Sisters.

But it's not the word evacuee www.ebay.co.uk/p/554032959?iid=194224799791&var=494312381521

Was there something else in your description?

This has fascinated me.

Are there any Americans here who can confirm whether you would generally know what an evacuee child is? Or more specifically, what happened to them?

Even that Huff Post thing kind of suggested they thought it was something other than it was - without actually saying it.

I'm now wondering whether evacuees were a thing anywhere other than the UK, even in Europe. Off to Google!

A typical refugee

I am absolutely sure I typed "evacuee" there. I don't know whether it's my brain or my tablet that's incorrecting me.

Maybe you out the listing in the wrong category and it's flagged it up as potentially something else?

My uncle was evacuated with my grandma and he was a beautiful and very healthy bouncy baby boy - despite living in pretty much dire poverty in the East End Certainly no rickets. He is now nearly 80 and still in very good nick.

They were evacuated to West Wales but came back due to a combination of the weather, the stone floors (he was learning to walk), and general hostility towards Jewish Londoners. They preferred to risk being bombed... (and my other great-grandparents actually were killed by a V2 rocket that hit the East End).

I take your point though. Lots of history isn't cutesy or fun and it's a bit weird to sanitise it and make a joke of real tragedy.

No War / Military words in the title or description.

Girls Fancy Dress Evacuee Beret and Tag Only.

Girls Fancy Dress Evacuee Beret and Tag.
No Dress Or Bag.

I’m a massive history nerd - to the point that every time someone mentions Stone Henge I have to whisper ‘it’s not a henge’ under my breath - but this thread is pretty harsh. OP mixed up some history facts. She admitted she made a mistake because she didn’t know. Carrying on explaining just how wrong she was and how embarrassed she should be just smacks of showing off.
I have glaring gaps in my contemporary knowledge, an argument could be made that I don’t pay attention to the world I live in and miss out on interactions as a result. It’s true, but I don’t care enough to change it.

Ahh not toooo bad 😂

All this is currently allowed.

www.ebay.co.uk/b/Unbranded-World-War-II-Fancy-Dress-Period-Costumes/163147/bn_3630214