API error in mature audience category

could be a few different things. the one that comes to mind (since not explicit wording) is if you have paypal mentioned. You cant accept paypal for mature category items. will get your paypal acct cancelled.

I tryed to list some surgical gloves and got the same message. All very clean listing!

Wayoutwest...I had no idea you could not accept paypal for mature audiences..I once listing some cards with half naked ladies, when I first started on ebay..someone must have turned me in, because my auction got pulled..and I even had a bid on it! But I was told I listed in the wrong category, but I had no idea at the time. I am going to list them again soon, so I am glad to know, not to put paypal on the listing!

Thanks for the info! Donna #2

surgical gloves might have gotten kicked out because of their medical devices policy. Not sure that's why, just a guess.

welcome on the paypal thing. Seen a few folks get in trouble for that Saw a person not too long ago get in trouble for selling tobacco and accepting paypal. Thing is, his was an antique pack of cigarrettes (unopened) and sold as a collectible. Let's face it, a pack of cigareets from the 40s or 50s is NOT gonna be fit to smoke - laf!

nudie cards - I've got a few decks of those (both male and female versions). picked them up back awhile back. Waiting to list until get store fully stocked. Have tons of crap for various categories that I'm waiting on listing (old avon bottles, computer odds and ends, a few VHS movies, etc.) Plan is this fall to have store well stocked and then launch all those items as auction items and get my store name out there to various categories outside of my main category. Dunno if will work or not, but gonna try it.

I tried removing all the paypal stuff. I didn't have anything on the auctiva preferences because I know you can't use paypal but I did have some prefereenes checked on the eay site about paypal in case I have some listings that don't fall in the mature audience category. I went ahead and removed those too. Then I tried to list one item to see if it worked and it failed too. Now I don't know what to do. My sister listed her mature audience items last week through auctiva without problem. Same items as mine. I need major help.

go to your saved listings here in auctiva and select 'Get HTML', copy what it gives you, go to practiceboard.com and paste it in, and then click the button to view and then get the url it gives you and paste it here so can take a look? from your OP, it looks like your description is so basic that it shouldnt have kicked it out, but there might be something in your policies or your title that is triggering ebays filters.

Here is the url from practiceboard.com. Thanks so much for taking a look at it!

http://www.practiceboard.com/?4086129

that's all there is in that? dang, should work! The only thing I can think of is maybe their filter is seeing "mustang" and thinking it should be in ebay motors.

Makes no sense whatsoever.

Something I just thought of - ebay used to require that you have a credit card on file to prove youre old enough to access mature categories. Do you have that done on ebay's site?

Try browsing to the mature categories by clicking hereand see if can get in without any problems. If says have to put cc on file, then might mean that ebay was blocking you from getting in, so do that and then try to list.

Hope this helps.

also, if you dont want to put a credit card on file with the, can do the id verify thing.

will cost you $5, but eliminates lots of the headaches on ebay (them sometimes suspending your acct until you prove youre a legit seller, being able to access areas without putting a credit card on file, etc)

http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/idverify-login.html

OMG! I have always been able to get into the mature audience category but just found out because of your posting that I wasn't ID Verified. Who knew! I just became verified and now I'm going to make a couple edits to my listings and try it again! What an ordeal. Why didn't they tell me that when I signed up to sell. Thank you so much for your time wayoutwest. Your input has been so much help!! Wish me luck.

Okay this is crazy. I scheduled 44 auctions to post at 9 and they all failed. Same API error message which tells me absolutely nothing. I went to ebay and posted one the old fashioned way and it worked without a hitch. What in the world is going on?

sorry to hear it's still giving you problems

only thing i know to do at this point is to open a support ticket.

http://www.auctiva.com/help/requesthelp.aspx

to check status of support ticket http://www.auctiva.com/help/ListofUserCases.aspx

I hope you dont feel that you wasted money on the id verify thing. It will save you headaches down the road.