🧻 eBay – The Platform That Neuters the Hustle

12 Jun, 2025

There’s a special kind of comedy that hits when eBay, a site built on secondhand chaos and niche goldmines, acts like it’s the digital Vatican.

You try to message a seller—respectfully, curiously, maybe even with money in hand—and the system damn near panics. "Your message violates policy." "This may be considered contact information." "For your safety..."

Bro. I said “Discord.” I wasn’t selling classified intel.

What eBay claims:

“We protect users by preventing off-site communication.”

What eBay means:

“If we can’t take a cut, we’d rather you not speak at all.”

Let’s be real—this isn’t about safety. This is about control, percentages, and profit trails. eBay doesn’t trust buyers. eBay doesn’t trust sellers. eBay trusts the algorithm—and even that gets confused by a semicolon and a compliment.

Meanwhile, on the same platform: 🧻 Scams with blurry photos? Still up. 👻 Sellers who vanish mid-sale? Still active. 💸 Listings with fake tracking? Somehow untouched.

But god forbid I ask,

“Hey, this art is dope. Got a community or place to talk about more?” Suddenly I’m the threat. The villain. The comms liability.

I didn’t try to scam. I tried to connect. I didn’t violate your system. I reminded it what people sound like.

And for that? eBay neuters the entire interaction.

Final Thought: Some of us just want to support a hustle, have a conversation, maybe collect something absurd and beautiful along the way. But eBay’s system doesn’t recognize nuance—only flags.

So here’s your flag back, eBay. Fold it. Frame it. Put it next to the pile of ghost listings you never removed.

Because the real problem? Was never us.

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