I have commented only on the information supplied in this thread.

I have not seen the items being discussed, so have no idea what is being removed and what is being left.

I have never come across the discussed items unless they have been brought up on the forums.

I have never seen any items, expected or otherwise during a general search that I felt breach policy to warrant that i report them.

eBay is the last place on Earth that I would look for or purchase items such as those being discussed.

We have seen some very creepy blatant stalking behaviour where members troll through huindreds of pictures in eBay photo albums, go to extraordinary lengths to find personal information and locate trading accounts, past purchases etc etc etc. We have seen this information then being displayed on the boards.

Nope there is not a chance in Hades that I'd ever contemplate buying items of that nature on here, so have no intention to search for them. (might see something I like and be tempted!)

The last time this topic came up (or it might have been the time before that, or the time before that) it was about a big bookseller and one of their books showed a close up of the female genitalia. The book itself was innocent, I think it was along the lines anatomy or biology and health, was not intended to be anymore sexually explicit than is needed to cover the health and working of that body part. It was just the outside view that a person would see if they were in the shower. It wasn't even presented in some uneccesary pose - was no different to a picture of an arm at rest beside a body, except for it wqas of a bit that polite society prefers is covered up in public.

We saw that was removed. It obviously breached policy. To say that eBay knowingly permit illegal activity, or ignore reports in order to breach their own policies etc, just doesn't add up.

If someone comes across an item which they think is either illegal or aginst policy, they are obviously free to report that item. If it is in breack or illegal (as that it IS, not that we think it is), I have no doubt eBay would remove it. If it isn't, for whatever reasons, then it will stay.