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4 Mar, 16 tweets, 5 min read
Is ebay really banning listings of the PROBLEMATIC Dr. Seuss books?
I can see the book he tried to sell listed on ebay so I'm not sure why it would get flagged (he says he used the ISBN number, so maybe that's how).
Looking now, "And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street" has many different ISBNs depending on which edition it is. If ebay only plugged some of them into the algo, that would mean only specific versions would get auto-flagged.
Another example. The person in the original post is forwarding me his ebay email and I am also going to check against his specific ISBN. I'm on the case.
Note that both emails from ebay in both examples contain the same wording.
Again my working assumption is that @ebay is flagging these using ISBNs, and since these books have many editions, some ISBNs, or listings that don't mention them at all, won't get flagged.
I can't figure out what happened, but @AUChizad forwarded me an email he got cancelling his bid on another Dr. Seuss book, that appears to have been nuked from the site as well. So that's the third example I see of this today.
Here it is. Clicking on the link won't let me view the listing. It just says it ended. Trying to view original item doesn't work either. I'm not a frequent ebay user so I don't know if this is standard for sales that ended.
It looks like ebay doesn't recognize hyphenated ISBN numbers so it couldn't have been that.
Oh man was this thread from yesterday relevant.
Some posts about it on the ebay forums. Note the OP isn't some account that popped out of nowhere. Has over 500 feedback. community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Dr-…
Doing some Twitter searches and I see at least two more examples of people tweeting about their Seuss listings getting pulled. Unless everyone is either copycatting or colluding, this is a thing that's actually happening.
I have a new theory based on some questions - I think these are posts that contain the actual images that were deemed problematic and led to the books being pulled. I still don't see the justification of you can sell books with swastikas on the cover.
Here's a screenshot of the original listing in question. As you see, one of the images is of the PROBLEMATIC page. you're not going to convince me that's a legitimate reason to pull a listing.
Anyway, I seem to be the only one so far who actually checked this properly, and this is my final conclusion: It's likely postings that include the specific images that caused the controversy to begin with, even if they are presented to show the item's condition/completeness.
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