WTF eBay pulled my listing

[Gomez]

I had 2 Catalytic converters from a Festiva for sale. They were up to $182.50 the last time I checked. I got back from dinner and it was pulled by eBay. I listed them using the exact description as others that sold (copied/pasted) and they still pulled it. How can I get rid of these? I know for a fact that someone is willing to pay because in order for it to get to $182.50 at least 2 guys had to go as high as $180.00 in $2.50 increments.

Any ideas. Anyone on here interested. I will sell cheaper if interested.

[25Horseplay]

Did you write Ebay to see what the deal is?

[Festiva GTX]

I believe ebay banned used catalytic converter and which I know California law said it illegal to sell the used catalytic converters, unless it sold to metal company to destroy and recycle it which cannot install used one on cars.

[b3 madness]

Here is the response I receive from eBay when they did the same to me:

"Thank you for writing eBay in regard to the ending of your listing.

Your converter must be BROKEN DOWN INTO PIECES, no longer representing a
functioning catalytic converter and be listed as scrap metal in the
following category:

Business & Industrial > Manufacturing & Metalworking > Metals & Alloys >
Other Metals

If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to reply to this
email and let us know. "

I moved my listing to that category and placed a BIN price so that the auction would end fairly quickly. I believe also if you cut the flange ends off so that the cat can not be reused you will have a better chance of your auction not being pulled.

I told ebay that it is a bunch of crap and that none of these buyer are buying the converters for reuse AND eBay is making a lot of money from the sales of all of these converters. Their response was that they no longer wished to discuss the matter.....

[batstiva]

^^ Don't know, must depend on who at Ebay is looking, cause I sold a used catalytic converter on there a couple of months ago, and had no problem. At the time I did a search for "used catalytic converters" and there were several pages of them. Not sure what the problem is this time.