"[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Your listing has been removed. Encouraging system modifications is not allowed. If you wish to relist this system, please make sure to update it to the latest official software version. Copyright infringement is unlawful and against eBay's policies. Copyright is the protection provided by law to the authors of creative works, such as movies, music, software, photographs and books, both published and unpublished. Copyright owners possess the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to distribute copies of the copyrighted work, and to perform or display the copyrighted work publicly." Update it to the latest official software version?? really? :shakes fist violently: This is complete and utter bullshit, it's a bit over the top and uncalled for. What really pisses me off is someone actually did the "Buy it Now" minutes before they removed it. WTF!!! Sadly I just go to an error page when I click "send invoice" from my item sold email :/ [/FONT]
So basically they are saying "You're not really doing anything wrong yet, but because there's potential for something bad to happen, we are just going to consider what your doing wrong anyways."
It was a PS3 on firmware 3.15, I mentioned it had OTHEROS and may have said "Jailbreak it!" in the title. Still I included nothing with the ps3, only a power cable. I'm still fighting to get the Final Value Fee removed from my account since they removed the item after someone had clicked to purchase it. I must be in this for about 4 hours of hold/talk time so far
*facepalm* I'm not entirely sure what you expected to happen. If you'd said 'you can use this for playing your backed-up games' they'd have come down on you just as hard. In fact, reading back their reason for canceling your eBay listing, it was entirely justified. "You lose, good day sir!"
I am sure if you advertised a set of kitchen knives and said "Ideal murder weapon" then Ebay would have pulled it for much the same reason
Telling them what version the PS3 is on is fine, but the bit where you clearly told potential customers that you can exploit it means that this: [FONT=Arial, Verdana] [/FONT] ...is an entirely justified response. If it was simply removed because it wasn't the latest version, you'd have a right to be annoyed. I think you should just relist it with the firmware version, but without the silly 'Jailbreak' nonsense - the upgrading bit is purely to cover their own backs as it's likely the removal was provoked by Sony coughing gently in their ear. People who know what they're looking for will find it even without a silly title, and still hopefully pay top dollar (as shown by the PS3 I saw being sold recently that went for about twice the price it should have done just for mentioning it was running 'version 3.1 firmware'). [FONT=Arial, Verdana] [/FONT]
I think its all in the wording. I wouldn't be surprised if they run a script for certain words and just ban listings off of the findings. A 3.15 psp is really nice and deserves a good downloaders home. I think maybe using the words "can be used to run homebrew" will be safe.
