Hi everyone,

Well I had a shock this morning waiting for me in 
my mailbox! It was a letter from eBay telling me 
that my link to my site which said "We have 
Cards, Cels, trading cards, and more!" on 
my "About Me" page was illegal in eBay terms.

Of course they were alerted by some 
lovely "Community Watch" member. I guess some 
people have nothing better to do than keep up 
with ebay's "change every 10 minutes" rules and 
rat out on people who probably don't even know 
they are doing something "against the rules" 
because they have lives to live and don't need to 
keep up-to-date every two freaking seconds. Sigh
-_-#. (sorry that will by my only rant I hope)

I know a lot of us figured since eBay was banning 
links to our sites and our other goods in our 
auctions that we could put this information on 
our "About Me" pages. 

Apparently not.

eBay does not want you promoting the fact that 
you have anything else for sale, anywhere.

I am guessing that the next thing they are going 
to ding me for is having an e-mail on my About Me 
page ... I mean they want to be able to read all 
our email to make sure we aren't directly selling 
y'know.

It's really sad -_- because I ~know~ that eBay is 
doing this because they want to make the maximum 
profit, so I can understand where they are coming 
from. However, it's still frustrating that they 
have to be so completely against selling anything 
in any other way.

So, I just wanted to warn you all, as they DID 
say they were going to suspend my account if I 
didn't remove my 1 line of text (not even a 
graphic) from my About Me page.

They didn't comment on my graphic (with a link to 
my site) so I left it (I will let you all know if 
they  complain about it too) and I also just 
changed my link to say "Please check out our 
website: Go Here! ^_^"

I also left the e-mail address up there. I guess 
I will just have to wait and see.

For those of you who don't know what an "About 
Me" page is, it's a way of listing your auctions 
without having that super-dooper hideously long 
URL. You can usually list your auctions, recent 
feedback, and a few links and a graphic. It seems 
that these links are now going to be controlled.

Here's my page:
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/aino/

Just FYI,
misa