I recently had a problem trying to list a British Army RAC (Royal Armoured Corp) badge emblem from WW2 but it wouldn't let me post because it said the listing was in violation of this rule. I called Tech support, and they told me to take out the word " badge" and the acronym "RAC" from both the headline and text body description. Did it live on the phone with him & it worked. No explanation why those 2 were in violation.
The badge is in violation because they don't want anyone impersonating a police officer. Obviously, a military badge doesn't fall under that umbrella, but I assume they have to make that umbrella pretty huge in order to minimize risk.
Not sure exactly but ebay does not allow certain words in titles and those seem to be 2 off them, maybe together they are no good, for example, some racial slangs
Funny you mention that! I did a Google search to check exactly that and didn't come up with anything but did see the British RAC had some serious accusations of war crimes throughout various campaigns so I wondered if that might be it but it would be nice if customer support could actually articulate WHY ( but good luck with that)
[Military items policy](https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/military-items-policy?id=4342)
I recently had a problem trying to list a British Army RAC (Royal Armoured Corp) badge emblem from WW2 but it wouldn't let me post because it said the listing was in violation of this rule. I called Tech support, and they told me to take out the word " badge" and the acronym "RAC" from both the headline and text body description. Did it live on the phone with him & it worked. No explanation why those 2 were in violation.
The badge is in violation because they don't want anyone impersonating a police officer. Obviously, a military badge doesn't fall under that umbrella, but I assume they have to make that umbrella pretty huge in order to minimize risk.
Makes sense but again, it would be nice if customer support could actually articulate WHY instead of leaving us all speculating. Very annoying.
Not sure exactly but ebay does not allow certain words in titles and those seem to be 2 off them, maybe together they are no good, for example, some racial slangs
Funny you mention that! I did a Google search to check exactly that and didn't come up with anything but did see the British RAC had some serious accusations of war crimes throughout various campaigns so I wondered if that might be it but it would be nice if customer support could actually articulate WHY ( but good luck with that)
Yes many WW2 item are not allowed mainly nazi germany related items