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A–Z index of policies

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P–Q | R | S | T | U | V | W–Z

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Accepted payment methods - opens in new window or tab

Adult items

Age requirements for eBay members - opens in new window or tab

Airlines

Airsoft, air rifle - opens in new window or tab

Alcohol - opens in new window or tab

Ammunition - opens in new window or tab

Animals

Art - opens in new window or tab

Artifacts - opens in new window or tab

Authenticity

Automatic weapons - opens in new window or tab

B

Barter and trades - opens in new window or tab

Batteries - opens in new window or tab

BB Guns - opens in new window or tab

Beer - opens in new window or tab

Beta software - opens in new window or tab

Bicycle helmets - opens in new window or tab

Bids

Birds - opens in new window or tab

Birth certificates - opens in new window or tab

Bladed products - opens in new window or tab

Body parts - opens in new window or tab

Bonuses and prizes - opens in new window or tab

Brand names

Bullion policy - opens in new window or tab

Bundled software - opens in new window or tab

Business seller policy - opens in new window or tab

Buyer

C

Cancelling bids - opens in new window or tab

Cancelling orders - opens in new window or tab

Car seats - opens in new window or tab

Cash payments - opens in new window or tab

Catalogue sales - opens in new window or tab

Category

Misrepresentation of - opens in new window or tab

Cave formations - opens in new window or tab

CB amplifiers - opens in new window or tab

Certificates of authenticity (COAs) - opens in new window or tab

Chance listings - opens in new window or tab

Charity or fundraising listings - opens in new window or tab

Cheques, as a payment method - opens in new window or tab

Circumventing fees - opens in new window or tab

Clothing, used - opens in new window or tab

COAs (Certificates of authenticity) - opens in new window or tab

Coins - opens in new window or tab

Collectable containers, alcohol-related - opens in new window or tab

Collectable currency - opens in new window or tab

Community content - opens in new window or tab

Community boards usage - opens in new window or tab

Comparative pricing - opens in new window or tab

Compilations of information - opens in new window or tab

Concert tickets - opens in new window or tab

Condition of returned items - opens in new window or tab

Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 - opens in new window or tab

Contact information

Contracts - opens in new window or tab

Cookies and web beacons - opens in new window or tab

Copies, unauthorised - opens in new window or tab

Copyrights

Cosmetics - opens in new window or tab

Counterfeits

Coupons - opens in new window or tab

Cots - opens in new window or tab

Crafts, Native American - opens in new window or tab

Credit cards

Credits for third-party solutions - opens in new window or tab

Cruises - opens in new window or tab

Cubic zirconium - opens in new window or tab

Currency

Customs declarations - opens in new window or tab

D

Dating services - opens in new window or tab

Debit cards, sale of - opens in new window or tab

Defect removal - opens in new window or tab

Description theft - opens in new window or tab

Detailed seller ratings (DSRs) - opens in new window or tab

Diamonds - opens in new window or tab

Digitally delivered goods - opens in new window or tab

Disaster and tragedy - opens in new window or tab

Documents

Downloadable media - opens in new window or tab

Driver's licences - opens in new window or tab

Drugs

Duplicate listings - opens in new window or tab

E

eBay

E-cigarettes - opens in new window or tab

Electronic vouchers - opens in new window or tab

Electronically delivered items - opens in new window or tab

Electronic equipment - opens in new window or tab

Emails

Embargoed goods and prohibited countries - opens in new window or tab

Emissions control defeat devices - opens in new window or tab

Event tickets - opens in new window or tab

Explosives - opens in new window or tab

F

Fair use - opens in new window or tab

Fake IDs - opens in new window or tab

False or missing contact information - opens in new window or tab

False reports of policy violations - opens in new window or tab

Fee circumvention or avoidance - opens in new window or tab

Fee credits, false claims for - opens in new window or tab

Feedback

Fertiliser and pesticides - opens in new window or tab

Firearms and accessories - opens in new window or tab

Fireworks - opens in new window or tab

Fish - opens in new window or tab

Food - opens in new window or tab

Forgeries

Fundraising listings - opens in new window or tab

Funeral items - opens in new window or tab

G

Gems - opens in new window or tab

Giveaways, raffles, and prizes - opens in new window or tab

Gold jewellery - opens in new window or tab

Gold bullion - opens in new window or tab

Government

Grenades - opens in new window or tab

Groups usage - opens in new window or tab

Guides and reviews - opens in new window or tab

Guns

H

Hazardous, restricted, or regulated materials - opens in new window or tab

Holidays - opens in new window or tab

Hotels and resorts - opens in new window or tab

Hoverboards and self balancing scooters - opens in new window or tab

HTML in listings - opens in new window or tab

Human body parts and remains - opens in new window or tab

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Identification

Illegal activity, encouraging - opens in new window or tab

Illegal explicit content - opens in new window or tab

Image theft - opens in new window or tab

Import duties - opens in new window or tab

Importing goods into the UK or Ireland - opens in new window or tab

Indian crafts - opens in new window or tab

Information sales - opens in new window or tab

Intangible items - opens in new window or tab

Intellectual property - opens in new window or tab

International trading - opens in new window or tab

Invalid bid retraction - opens in new window or tab

Invalid contact information - opens in new window or tab

Invalid email addresses - opens in new window or tab

Item description - opens in new window or tab

Item misrepresentation

Item not received - opens in new window or tab

Items purchased outside of eBay (fraud) - opens in new window or tab

Ivory - opens in new window or tab

Links

Listings

LOAs (Letters of authenticity) - opens in new window or tab

Lockpicking devices - opens in new window or tab

Lodging and holiday packages - opens in new window or tab

Logo, guidelines for using eBay intellectual property - opens in new window or tab

Lottery tickets and game pieces - opens in new window or tab

M

Mailing lists and personal information - opens in new window or tab

Makeup, used - opens in new window or tab

Matrix programs - opens in new window or tab

Mature audiences - opens in new window or tab

Medical devices - opens in new window or tab

Medications

Members

Military items - opens in new window or tab

Minors, protecting - opens in new window or tab

Misrepresentation

Mobile devices - opens in new window or tab

Money orders, as payment method - opens in new window or tab

Mortgage notes - opens in new window or tab

Multi-level marketing, pyramid, and matrix programs - opens in new window or tab

Multiple accounts - opens in new window or tab

Multiple-quantity listing fee avoidance - opens in new window or tab

N

Narcotics - opens in new window or tab

Native American items

Nazi items - opens in new window or tab

No item listings - opens in new window or tab

Non-binding bid policy - opens in new window or tab

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) - opens in new window or tab

Non-paying buyer

Nonprofit listings - opens in new window or tab

O

Odometer modification devices - opens in new window or tab

OEM software - opens in new window or tab

Offensive

Offers to buy or sell outside of eBay - opens in new window or tab

Order cancellation - opens in new window or tab

Outages on the eBay site - opens in new window or tab

P

Passports and government documents - opens in new window or tab

Patent notices, eBay - opens in new window or tab

Payment dispute seller protections - opens in new window or tab

Payments

Pearls - opens in new window or tab

Perfume - opens in new window or tab

Personal information and mailing lists - opens in new window or tab

Personal relationships and services - opens in new window or tab

Philatelia (stamps) - opens in new window or tab

Photos

Pill presses, dies and moulds - opens in new window or tab

Plants - opens in new window or tab

Plastic products, single-use - opens in new window or tab

Playboy - opens in new window or tab

Plays, ticket sales - opens in new window or tab

Ponzi schemes - opens in new window or tab

Postage - opens in new window or tab

Presale listings - opens in new window or tab

Prescription and over-the-counter drugs - opens in new window or tab

Prescription devices - opens in new window or tab

Price gouging - opens in new window or tab

Prints

Custom printed products - opens in new window or tab

Privacy

Prizes - opens in new window or tab

Product safety - opens in new window or tab

Products with eligibility requirements - opens in new window or tab

Profanity, use of on eBay - opens in new window or tab

Profile - opens in new window or tab

Prohibited and restricted items - opens in new window or tab

Prohibited countries, trading restrictions - opens in new window or tab

Property - opens in new window or tab

Protections

Publishing contact information - opens in new window or tab

Pyramid schemes - opens in new window or tab

R

Radar detectors and jamming devices - opens in new window or tab

Radioactive items - opens in new window or tab

Raffles - opens in new window or tab

Recalled items - opens in new window or tab

Refrigerants - opens in new window or tab

Refusal to sell - opens in new window or tab

Remains, human - opens in new window or tab

Removing serial numbers - opens in new window or tab

Replicas

Reporting

Retracting a bid - opens in new window or tab

Returns

Reviews and guides - opens in new window or tab

Rules for buyers overview - opens in new window or tab

Rules for sellers overview - opens in new window or tab

S

Satellite descramblers - opens in new window or tab

Scanned vouchers - opens in new window or tab

Scanners and communication equipment - opens in new window or tab

Search and browse manipulation - opens in new window or tab

Seeds - opens in new window or tab

Seller

Selling limits - opens in new window or tab

Services, prohibited or restricted - opens in new window or tab

Sexually-explicit materials - opens in new window or tab

Shill bidding - opens in new window or tab

Shipping - opens in new window or tab

Signature confirmation - opens in new window or tab

Signposts, no item listings - opens in new window or tab

Single-use plastic products - opens in new window or tab

Site interference - opens in new window or tab

Site outage - opens in new window or tab

Slot machines - opens in new window or tab

Snails - opens in new window or tab

Social media and reviews manipulation - opens in new window or tab

Social security numbers and personal information - opens in new window or tab

Software

Spam - opens in new window or tab

Sporting event tickets - opens in new window or tab

Stamps - opens in new window or tab

Steroids - opens in new window or tab

Stocks and securities - opens in new window or tab

Stolen property - opens in new window or tab

Stun guns - opens in new window or tab

Surveillance equipment - opens in new window or tab

T

Tax - opens in new window or tab

Tax strategy 2018 - opens in new window or tab

Terms and conditions

Test listings - opens in new window or tab

Third-party acknowledgements and links - opens in new window or tab

Third-party endorsements of eBay members - opens in new window or tab

Threats of bodily harm - opens in new window or tab

Ticket sales - opens in new window or tab

Titles, misleading - opens in new window or tab

Tobacco - opens in new window or tab

Trademarks - opens in new window or tab

Trades - opens in new window or tab

Trading cards - opens in new window or tab

Traffic signal changers - opens in new window or tab

Train travel - opens in new window or tab

Transit

Travel and holidays - opens in new window or tab

U

Unauthorised copies - opens in new window or tab

Unauthorised recordings - opens in new window or tab

Underage users - opens in new window or tab

Uniforms

Unpaid items

Unsolicited email (spam) - opens in new window or tab

Unsolicited ideas - opens in new window or tab

Used items

User Agreement - opens in new window or tab

User Privacy Notice - opens in new window or tab

Users

Usernames - opens in new window or tab

Using multiple accounts (policy) - opens in new window or tab

V

VeRO program

Video games, unauthorised copies of - opens in new window or tab

Violence and violent criminals - opens in new window or tab

Virtual currency - opens in new window or tab

Vulgar language - opens in new window or tab

W

Weapons

Weeds - opens in new window or tab

Western Union, as payment method - opens in new window or tab

Wildlife products - opens in new window or tab

Wine - opens in new window or tab

Wire transfers, as payment method - opens in new window or tab

Wiretaps and electronic surveillance equipment - opens in new window or tab

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