[admin]

Posted by miscmini on the theminiaturespage.com

Has anyone here ever encountered this problem with ebay?

[Louie]

yes I have a couple of times. Never put the word swastika in an ad they have a search bot that looks for this and ends your listing. They are the true Nazis! On the other hand i have sold many many planes with swazis keep trying it is random.

[STARMAN 352ND]

I never had the problem with them...But with the swazi markings you might want to mark it out a little.
I have seen swazi's on there before and nothing happeneds but if you have a photoshop you should be ok to change it a little .
Don't use the swazi word in your description either and relist it with a new touched up photo.

JP

[TopHat]

Admin:

Try blurring the offending decals with your photoshop program. That should make the pics ebay acceptable.

[MoMo]

Ebay are aware that it is an offence to display a swastika in public in Germany. This was law under the Federal West German regime and as their laws supercede East German laws, they carry through.

Because of this law history has to be modified and as a result of this you will not find any decals with a swastika in any model kits marketed in Europe. Even the famous DAK symbol has been reduced to a floating palm tree! ( floating over the space where the swastika has been zapped! )

When I was a kid all the Airfix models had the requisite swastikas on the decal sheet and it didn't turn me into a nazi!

Still, policy is policy, and political correctness is the order of the day. I can understand why the symbol is anathema to many, so I guess that this piece of protectionist revisionism must be upheld.

MoMo

[mikeb1958]

Yes Admin, I have had some auctions pulled in the past by the 'ebay police' myself. I was selling some German WWII medals back around 2000. A few years later I saw some medals listed with the swazis and reported it to the 'ebay police' myself and they let the auctions run to the end. Don't know what is up with that, not fair. The ONLY auctions that they allow now and won't be pulled are the German coins and stamps of WWII. All of these have the eagle with the swazi.

[mustangdriver]

yes yes erase the swastika from sight, and then it means that we never did it. Nice

[bsmith13]

That truly saddens me. I realize why eBay is nervous about trafficking in "Nazi Paraphenalia", but no one seems to worry about how stupid we are getting culturally when we do something like this.

[mikeb1958]

Originally Posted by bsmith13

That truly saddens me. I realize why eBay is nervous about trafficking in "Nazi Paraphenalia", but no one seems to worry about how stupid we are getting culturally when we do something like this.

The PC folks got to them. "Oh, Tommy...you can't buy that Corgi FW-190...there is a swasika on the tail!" "Go buy that PS3 game you wanted instead, GRAND THEFT AUTO......"

[mapleflag]

[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/mark/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-6.jpg[/IMG]Then I'd really like to know which of the politically correct police was on duty when this got posted!
http://cgi.ebay.com/2Reichsmark-Germ...QQcmdZViewItem