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Peter La

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I really need help here. I just started selling on Ebay and I have already managed to get myself an Alert. My listing for a Swamp Rat Desert SAR was cancelled because of "Keyword Spamming". In the email I received from Ebay, they said the problem was "Progunner sheath". My intentions were strictly to say who made the sheath, but this is apparently a violation of rules. The irony is the sheath was not made by Progunner anyway. I read over the Ebay page on "Keyword Spamming" and I think I understand what I did wrong.

I am wondering if I am infringing on this rule in my other listing for a Busse SFNO:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/SPAM-ViewItem

I can see I may be asking for another slap when I use words like MagFire, On/Scene Tactical, and Leatherman. Am I right?

Now, I am not exactly sure why I can use words like Busse/ Swamp Rat but not words like Progunner. Is the problem the capital letters? Is the problem not in the description but in the title? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
 
I'm sorry, but if we allow one post here with a link to an ebay auction "not to spam, only to ask a question about my auction" in the next week approximately 100,000 ebay sellers will join Bladeforums to post links to their auctions "only to ask a question, not to advertise my ebay auction on Bladeforums." I know you didn't mean any harm, but I don't know any way to allow that without opening the floodgates.
 
Thanks Couger, I removed the link.

Am I "keyword spamming" when I use words like "Special Forces"?
 
You can email the dickheads in charge of pulling auctions and ask them, it takes a few days as they are VERY slow and argue your point. I had Many auctions pulled and you just relist with a new title.
 
Peter-
I think there may be issues with ebay's keyword spam filters. In the past week I and a friend of mine have both had auctions cancelled for keyword spam; in neither case werewe able to ascertain what word was the "keyword" that set the filters off. And in both cases, until the last week, neither of us have had any problems of this sort.

The word progunner should not be considere keyword psam by any means... at least not unless ebay gets several hundred people a day searching that string.
 
Gravelface said:
You can email the dickheads in charge of pulling auctions and ask them, it takes a few days as they are VERY slow and argue your point. I had Many auctions pulled and you just relist with a new title.
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So the title is the issue? In that case, the "special forces" in my title will probably cause that auction to be pulled. I will fix it.

When you say "many", you only get 11 chances before they cancel your account right?
 
I wonder why they let me have "progunner" as a user ID if it was so bad. I grow increasingly less impressed with ebay. If I were to start selling my sheaths on there I'll have to call them something other than Progunner sheaths.
 
I was just thinking about that progunner. perhaps Peter's auction was flagged for using another's ebay user ID in the title.
 
Maybe not many,but at least 4. It is something in the title that will get it cancelled. You can say what you want in the description, but only things that "describe THE item" I have filed complaints with them and of coarse no resolution came of them, but I like to rock the tree when I can.
 
roughedges said:
I was just thinking about that progunner. perhaps Peter's auction was flagged for using another's ebay user ID in the title.
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Hmmm. That might be an explanation. Never thought of that.
 
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