If you do any selling on Ebay you will eventually run afoul of one of their listing policies. Most often this will be caused by a trademarked word or having "Like New" in the item description. They assume that you know all of the rules and make you feel like a cheater that just got caught. "Please be sure your current and future listings follow these guidelines, keeping in mind that additional violations could result in the suspension of your account."
My latest offense was using the work "Velcro" to describe the adjustable strap on a baseball cap. It wouldn't be so bad if they just moved the listing to my "Ended" folder. But they completely deleted the listing, so I couldn't go back and fix the problem! I saw a video posted by a guy once who had a listing removed because Ebay determined that the item itself was offensive. It was a statue of a German General. Ebay deleted the listing and the guy didn't even have enough information to find the item in his inventory.
I still had photos of the item, but I wasn't sure what price and shipping options I had set for the item. It was easy enough to recreate the listing. It just wasted my time. The email states that they credited all associated fees except for payments processing fees and the final value fee for the listing. There was no payment to process, but they may still take the final value fee. It's bad enough that 34% of gross sales on Ebay goes to final value fees, PayPal fees, shipping fees, and promotion fees when you sell something.
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