@getnikd wrote:
When Ebay refer to the selling of digital items, they are talking about copies of things such as ebooks or music which people don't own the rights for and are therefore breaching copyright laws. As the seller of this item, I have spoken to Ebay to make sure, and these items are allowed to be sold 🙂
While it doesn't surprise me that someone working for eBay would give incorrect advice, I'm afraid that it very much is incorrect, at least for eBay AU.
The policy re: digitally delivered goods is a blanket ban - you can check the policy in question here:
http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/listing-no-item.html
Expand the "Listings with no item" link and you'll see that digital goods is first on the list, with no exceptions - despite what you may have been told, it's not a matter of copyright laws, and there are specific policies re: copyright in place to cover that sort of thing.
You can get around this either by listing the items on another eBay site that does allow goods to be delivered digitally, eg US ebay, or by selling a physical item - either an actual print, or a hard copy (on disc, or memory card) and offering a digital copy as a back-up if preferred. I would suggest thinking about changing to either one of those things, as while you can cruise along fine for a while, sooner or later there will be someone who'll report your listings rather than seek or offer advice about them, and ebay could pull the rug out from under you in a matter of seconds. 😞
