eBay Censorship

[Monsters For Sale]

Since when does eBay censor private messages between buyer and seller?

A Japanese seller told me he was afraid that a poster I bought would be held up in our mail for tariff charges and told me he would help pay the price.

I was writing back to tell him that the tariff was ruled illegal by a judge and it arrived duty free.  In describing our situation here, I used the word "bastard" and had my message rejected by eBay.  I changed the term to bag of dirt and it went through.

(I was a little surprised all my other terms were deemed unoffensive.)

Never had a private message rejected by eBay before.  Is this something new?

[michblk]

I know they censor from putting email addresses in, but didn't realize censored other words.

Brian K

[Mike Scott]

You should have spelled it like Tarantino did.

[Monsters For Sale]

Funny thing is, in a previous message I used the "F" word in reference to the same unnamed person, and it went through without objection.

[Mike Scott]

. . and it went through without objection.

Weird!