eBay model listing mentioned 'swastika' , now cancelled

[Nicholas Blair]

I listed a couple of Corgi Junkers Ju88's on eBay last night (I'm clearing out some of my vast collection).

Awake this morning to an email from them stating I had breached their 'Discriminatory + Hurt' policy, and that the two listings had been pulled. I mentioned swastika's as authentic markings in the detail.

Is this for real?, I assume they must have some sort of text checker that trawls listing details (not title descriptions) looking for disallowed words? There are several similar sales for the same models, so I can only assume this to be the case, unless someone reported them.

Any one had anything similar?

Thanks
Nick

[backwoodsman]

Someone reported you.

Were you undercutting similar items?

[Nicholas Blair]

Perhaps by a tenner, although one seller had it listed for £199, pretty ridiculous.

Thanks
Nick

[951TSE]

Nicholas Blair said:

Perhaps by a tenner, although one seller had it listed for £199, pretty ridiculous.

Thanks
Nick

Well you say that but there's at least one Irish seller who's sold a couple of the Night fighter versions for approx £150 a piece recently. Most others seem to sell for between £50 and £80 though.

As for your other problem, quite a lot of the adverts on at the moment seem to have just cut and pasted the Corgi catalogue entry for the model which just refers to the authentic markings of the time. I'm slightly surprised that Ebay hasn't pulled some of them though as the box art quite clearly shows a swastika on it.

[Nicholas Blair]

951TSE said:

Well you say that but there's at least one Irish seller who's sold a couple of the Night fighter versions for approx £150 a piece recently. Most others seem to sell for between £50 and £80 though.

As for your other problem, quite a lot of the adverts on at the moment seem to have just cut and pasted the Corgi catalogue entry for the model which just refers to the authentic markings of the time. I'm slightly surprised that Ebay hasn't pulled some of them though as the box art quite clearly shows a swastika on it.

True, I did see a couple going for that which was possibly a fair price. Will relist I think but not use certain words!

Cheers
Nick

[dr_gn]

Try using " hakenkreuz" instead of swastika. Its a less well known but more accurate description of the symbol. If you had photos with the symbol visible that will be the reson they were pulled - its illegal to show them in some germanic countries.

[CanAm]

Indeed, yet the Auto & Technik Museum in Sinsheim, Germany has WW2 planes with Swastikas on their tails.

[dr_gn]

CanAm said:

Indeed, yet the Auto & Technik Museum in Sinsheim, Germany has WW2 planes with Swastikas on their tails.

Probably classed as educational exhibits, in which case they are permitted. There are a few exceptions to the rules on showing swastikas eg for artistic, scientific or artistic reasons.

[mybrainhurts]

Don't mention the war...

Ebay is very anal about military stuff and guns. Bunch of idiots. And bandits...

[Halmyre]

A quick search on ebay shows up 1900 listings associated with 'swastika', including model planes and suchlike, so a blanket ban looks unlikely.

[CanAm]

dr_gn said:

CanAm said:

Indeed, yet the Auto & Technik Museum in Sinsheim, Germany has WW2 planes with Swastikas on their tails.

Probably classed as educational exhibits, in which case they are permitted. There are a few exceptions to the rules on showing swastikas eg for artistic, scientific or artistic reasons.

But the Deutsches Museum in Munich doesn't show any. A bit too close to home?