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05/02/2020 at 11:37 pm #76936
Hi Scavengers. Is there any way to change which states you can sell to without it changing all your listings? I have a couple of listings that aren’t allowed to be sold in California due to Prop 65 but I don’t see how to change it so a Cali person doesn’t place an order. If I change that I can’t sell in California it looks like it changes it on all my listings.
I put a warning in the Prop 65 box and also a message in the shipping information but had a Californian order it and now I have to refund him (and potentially deal with an unhappy customer).
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05/03/2020 at 7:47 am #76937
Huh, I didnt know that was a thing. Do eBay sellers have to worry about Prop 65 rules? Never heard of this before.
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05/03/2020 at 10:50 am #76939
I don’t want to sell something that isn’t allowed in their state. I messaged the buyer but haven’t heard back from him. I wish there was a way to block certain locations without it applying to all listings. If something isn’t allowed to be sold in a particular state, we should be able to block a buyer from making a purchase.
Ah well, lesson learned. I have had several sales on this commodity item and wondered why no one else was selling it. Now, I know.
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05/03/2020 at 11:18 am #76940
Meg, could you give us some more background on the item and why you think it can’t be sold to California due to Prop 65? To my knowledge, there is no prohibition of selling specific items there except in very limited and unlikely circumstances. Ebay resellers cannot obscure, alter or remove any existing Prop 65 warnings on any item; fail to include in the sale any Prop 65 warning materials that we do have with an item; or knowingly introduce any listed chemical into an item without providing a Prop 65 warning to the buyer. Is it one of these situations?
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05/03/2020 at 11:56 am #76941
These are items I have been buying at retail and flipping. I was selling 3 to 4 a day, so I asked the retailer if they did shipping and they told me they don’t ship to California due to Prop 65. That’s when I checked and found out it shouldn’t be sold in California because it has a Prop 65 warning on the package.
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05/03/2020 at 1:00 pm #76942
Prop 65 is the law that requires the warnings in certain cases for things so they can be sold in California so I guess I don’t understand how having the warning would prevent the sale. But to answer your original question, I’m not aware of any way to exclude any specific states in a listing other than Alaska and Hawaii.
But you could put in the listing description that you do not ship to California due to Prop 65. Hopefully that will deter CA buyers but if someone with a CA mailing address does purchase the item, you can select “there’s a problem with buyer’s address” as the reason for cancellation so your account doesn’t get dinged for it and the buyer can’t say they weren’t warned.
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05/03/2020 at 1:19 pm #76944
Thank you for your help. That’s what I did. I had put in the shipping information that it didn’t ship to California, but I don’t think many people read that or even the description half the time.
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05/03/2020 at 3:12 pm #76954
I’ve lived in California for 15 years and this is one of those California laws you will never figure out. It seems to be the perfect example of a byzantine law which has none of its supposed intended outcomes.
For example, almost every public building door (every door!) in California has to have a Prop 65 warning sign on it. Maybe a politicians brother owned a sign making company.
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05/03/2020 at 8:17 pm #76980
You don’t need to worry about it, unless you have more than 10 employees. From Prop 65 FAQ: “Are any businesses exempt from Proposition 65? Yes. Small businesses with fewer than 10 employees, governmental agencies, and public water systems are exempt from the warning requirement and discharge prohibition of Proposition 65.“
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