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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Frankcoins.com, post: 1223995, member: 16048&quot;]<b>Ebay accused me of hatred and racism....</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I listed a German 1939 War Merit medal which was a non-military issue given to CIVILIANS who worked in factories. Since the medal displays a swastika on one side, I had an image of only the side with the inscription &quot;For War Merit&quot; (In German.)</p><p>In addition, I blocked the sale to all countries except the US, stated in the text that it was for sale only to collectors of militaria in the US, that it would not be shipped to countries where such items were against the law, and was being sold only as a historical item.</p><p>A potential bidder wrote and asked this question:</p><p>Dear frankcoins,</p><p>Hi I was wondering what the translation of the inscription is. Thanks for </p><p>your kind reply......Cortland.</p><p>-cortland248</p><p><br /></p><p>I replied AS A PRIVATE MESSAGE with a link to this wikipedia article</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Merit_Medal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Merit_Medal" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Merit_Medal</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and mentioned that I could not show an image of the side with the swastika as to not offend eBay. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well a few hours later, ebay ended the listing, and I noticed that on my Seller Dashboard, my &quot;policy compliance&quot; went from &quot;high&quot; to &quot;low&quot; instantly for THIS ONE ITEM and I am guilty of &quot;HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I called my customer service representative and he said this could probably be removed because I was an 11 year ebay seller and a $49.95 per month store owner , but he needed to check with his supervisor. After about 15 minutes on hold, his tone changed to that of scolding me like I was a child, that &quot;hatred&quot; was &quot;the most serious violation of all&quot; on ebay, but WORST OF ALL, he cited the private message with the potential buyer as proof that I &quot;KNEW I WAS DOING WRONG&quot; and that KNOWINGLY doing wrong is much more serious than INNOCENTLY doing wrong, because it was a MATTER OF HEART.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Anyone else find it disturbing that they can sanction you on information NOT IN THE LISTING that you communicate by private message?)</p><p><br /></p><p>He suggested that I didn&#039;t understand the wrongness of hatred and Nazism (I am a 53 year old patriotic Texan, whose Dad and uncle both served in World War 2 combat zones...so having some young kid in India lecture me about the wrongness of the Nazis and my &quot;state of heart&quot; made me blow my stack.) I told him to F--- himself and hung up on him, so now I fully expect to have eBay totally ban me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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