To help keep eChinabid a safe and enjoyable marketplace for buyers and sellers, please note and follow our policies about listing practices. Please keep in mind that the following policies apply to both the auction-style and fixed price formats. Our guidelines are also outlined in the User Agreement .

Listings violating eChinabid 's policies may result in disciplinary action. This action may include a formal warning, the ending of all violating listings, or even temporary or indefinite suspension of a user's account. eChinabid will consider the circumstances of an alleged offense and the user's trading records before taking action. In most cases, eChinabid will credit all associated fees when a listing is ended.

Note: For preliminary information on whether a certain item is acceptable on eChinabid , visit Is My Item Allowed ?

Choice listings
Signposts
Giveaways, raffles, or prizes
Listing techniques that evade eChinabid 's fee structure
Reserve price violations
Inappropriate titles and inappropriate key word use
Payment surcharges
Profanity
JavaScript
Proper category listing
Multi-listing
Linking
Bonus items

Choice listings
A seller may not allow buyers to choose from a selection of items. This practice can lead to misrepresentation or fraud because it requires offline negotiation.
Signposts
Signposts, listings primarily meant to direct a user to a seller's store or other listings, are not allowed.
Giveaways, raffles, or prizes
Listings that promote giveaways, random drawings, or prizes are not permitted. Such promotions are highly regulated and may be unlawful in many states.

eChinabid itself may run such promotions and may grant authorization to its partners or third-party companies to run such promotions.
Listing techniques that evade eChinabid 's fee structure
Listings may not circumvent eChinabid 's fees. Examples include:

• Offering the opportunity to buy the listed item or other item outside of eChinabid
• Low prices but unreasonably high shipping or handling costs
• Listing an item that requires or offers additional purchase
• Multiple Item Listing avoidance: listing a single item and offering additional identical items for sale in the item description. In these situations, the seller typically instructs buyers to indicate the number of items they want, and states that they can get the same price as the item in the listing.
• Listings with an email address or domain name in the title . An exception exists for the sale of actual domain names.
• Selling currently active catalogs through which buyers can then purchase merchandise. Selling collectible catalogs that are no longer active is, however, allowed.
• Offering items for sale in a manner that circumvents eChinabid fees .
• Reserve fee Avoidance - Canceling bids and ending items early because the sellers desired price has not been met. This is considered reserve fee avoidance.

• Stating the reserve price in the title or description of the item when the item has not been listed using the reserve feature.
• Stating in the title or description that the high bidder is obligated to purchase the item even if the reserve price has not been met.
• Chronically ending items with bids in the last 12 hours because the seller's desired price has not been met. Sellers should use the reserve price feature if they are only willing to sell at a certain price.

There are three exceptions to this rule:

• Sellers may add a reasonable shipping and handling fee to the final price of their item, providing that this fee is disclosed up-front in the listing. A shipping and handling fee can cover the seller's reasonable costs for mailing, packaging and handling the item. Shipping and handling fees cannot be listed as a percentage of the final sale price.

• Sellers may pass along the costs associated with using a third-party escrow service, if the buyer chooses to use an escrow service.

• Sellers may choose to accept payment in a different currency than the currency listed on eChinabid . If the buyer chooses this optional payment method, the seller may pass along to the buyer any costs associated with the currency exchange, provided that the costs are disclosed and agreed to in advance by the buyer.

We make allowances for listings that contain profane words as a part of the title of the item for sale, such as a CD or a movie. In this case, sellers should block out the bulk of the offending word with asterisks (for example, s*** or f***). Please keep in mind that all listings must follow policies regarding adult items as outlined in our Mature Audiences guidelines.

• HTML or JavaScript used to drop or read a cookie on any eChinabid page
• HTML or JavaScript that redirects the user from eChinabid to another page (such as the "replace" script)
• HTML or JavaScript that automatically call remote scripts and pages (such as JavaScript includes or iframes)
• HTML or JavaScript that changes registry entries, or otherwise write to another's computer hard drive
• HTML or JavaScript that creates automatic "pop-ups" (exception - links that open in a new window when clicked on)
• HTML or JavaScript that automatically posts to scripts in eChinabid
• HTML or JavaScript that automatically loads any binary program on another's computer (exception - Flash content)
• HTML or JavaScript that automatically overwrites any area on the listing outside of the item description area

Many people are not aware of the problems these HTML or JavaScript functions can cause and do not intentionally use them to cause harm. However, these HTML or JavaScript functions can be used for malicious purposes. Therefore, in the interest of security, we have eliminated the use of these HTML or JavaScript functions on our site.

Multi Listing occurs when a seller posts more than 10 listings for identical items. The best method to list identical items is through our Storefront , Fixed Price or Multiple Item Auctions formats. Although there are reasons to list identical items at the same time, enabling a single seller to list too many identical items at one time hurts the buying experience.

If a seller lists in more than one category, the categories must be relevant. Any additional identical listings will be ended. The insertion fee will be automatically credited for ended listings. Sellers may not register multiple User ID's to list more than 10 identical items.

The eChinabid Item page may not contain URLs or links to, or promotional information about, any off-eChinabid Web page, including Web sites of the seller or any third party.

There are two exceptions to this general rule. An eChinabid item page may contain a link to information related specifically to that item that:

• Acknowledges a company providing services related to that listing (such as counters, listing management tools, or payment services). This acknowledgement may contain a logo (88x33 pixels) and up to 10 words of text (HTML font size 3) but only one of those may be clickable.

• Points interested buyers to another Web page that contains nothing other than more information (such as pictures, product specifications or detailed terms and conditions) about eChinabid items listed by that seller.

Links from the eChinabid Item View page that interfere in any way with the eChinabid bidding process or solicit eChinabid user information are not allowed. Links from the eChinabid Item View page to pages that promote off-eChinabid sales in any way are forbidden, though such pages may contain discrete links to other commercial Web pages.

The eChinabid About Me page may describe the seller's business and may contain URLs or links to the seller's individual Web site. It may not specifically promote off-eChinabid sales or sales of items prohibited on eChinabid , nor may it contain links to commercial Web sites where goods from multiple sellers are aggregated by a search engine.

• In all bonus listings, the seller must state the exact price at which the bonus will apply.

• In Multiple Item Listings the seller must offer the same bonus item to ALL winning bidders. Multiple Item Listing rules require that all winning bidders receive identical items.

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