eBay pulled my auction for this???

[brainpicker]

I recently bought an X40 from a nice guy here but when it arrived the kid and his wife I bought it for decided they didn't want it. The laptop was used for less than a year, and though it's in really nice shape but for a couple of those white spots that develop on the LCD's of travelled machines on occasion the kid wanted a brand new laptop for a used laptop price. Needless to say I won't be helping them further. Rather than be stuck with an X40 I didn't need for myself I chose to sell it on eBay for a decent price ($875 delivered for a 1.4GHz, 768MB, 40GB, IBM a/b/g, etc. ...in case anyone here is interested ) that wouldn't kill me too badly after fees and my other costs associated with the laptop.

I placed the ad and in it I stated that I made things easy for the buyer by making the Restore CD's for them in advance and I was shipping them with the laptop. eBay pulled my auction stating I was supplying copyrighted CD's with my item. What? I explained that this is INTENDED by the manufacturer and what difference does it make whether the buyer or seller makes them. I just wanted to save the buyer a few hours time. They won't replace my auction. I haven't sold on eBay for almost a year so maybe things have changed a lot since my last auction?

Have any of you run into this? Am I in the wrong here? Any input appreciated.

Thanks,
-Yak

[JHEM]

Have any of you run into this? Am I in the wrong here? Any input appreciated.

Yes, I've seen it before and no, you're not in the wrong.

MS cracked down so hard on eBay for selling various pirated versions of Windows that they (eBay) are now gunshy at just the implication that your sale might not be completely above board.

The hard part to swallow about all this is that while most recovery CD sales on eBay now state that no MS product is included, you can still find the odd offering for complete recovery CD sets including Windows.

Go figure.

Regards,

James