>In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay
I would count sending a "letter" along with your product to be a form of communication.
>Use contact information obtained through an eBay transaction to offer to buy or sell an item outside of eBay
This would prevent you from adding the insert to the package.
>Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay
An insert is effectively a mini catalog. So they pretty much explicitly banned inserts. If you aren't even allowed to sell them for a price then sellers clearly wouldn't be allowed to give them away for free.
Sending an insert along with a product breaks 3 policy points at once. Can you describe which part of the policy actually allows inserts? All I see is that Ebay wants to have complete control over communications between seller and buyer.
You're interpreting this in the way Apple would, not in the way eBay actually does.
>>In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay
>I would count sending a "letter" along with your product to be a form of communication.
This means one can't use eBay's messaging for promotion, but one can use one's own product. The way you're interpreting this would mean that no one selling in eBay could send letters (or even advertise) anywhere outside eBay because it might reach an eBay member.
>>Use contact information obtained through an eBay transaction to offer to buy or sell an item outside of eBay
>This would prevent you from adding the insert to the package.
This means one can't use the paypal address for direct mail for these purposes. However, you don't even have to know who the customer is to add an insert or to package your product such that it refers to your website.
>>Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay
>An insert is effectively a mini catalog.
It's basically Google's rule on not promoting other App Stores in their Play Store.
Fact: Plenty of people do this in practice and eBay is not cracking down. Maybe it's not interpreted the way you think it is?
Indeed, it seems as though communication within the product, or its box, is ok. If you buy an Xbox on ebay, it's allowed to sell you games within the Xbox.
>Buyers and sellers can't:
>In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay
I would count sending a "letter" along with your product to be a form of communication.
>Use contact information obtained through an eBay transaction to offer to buy or sell an item outside of eBay
This would prevent you from adding the insert to the package.
>Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay
An insert is effectively a mini catalog. So they pretty much explicitly banned inserts. If you aren't even allowed to sell them for a price then sellers clearly wouldn't be allowed to give them away for free.
Sending an insert along with a product breaks 3 policy points at once. Can you describe which part of the policy actually allows inserts? All I see is that Ebay wants to have complete control over communications between seller and buyer.