11-20-2008, 03:29 PM
<!--quoteo(post=284739:date=Nov 20 2008, 09:47 AM:name=Ruste Dowg)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE(Ruste Dowg @ Nov 20 2008, 09:47 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=284739\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecSorry to hear that earl, maybe use the classifieds on the forums for now and try again later?<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndThat'd be my guess too.Are the other masks also of licensed characters? If not, then there's two other possibilities.#1- do you have a disgruntled customer? bad feedback recently on a sale you couldn't fix for whatever reason? Might want to approach them and see if there's anything you can do to repair that situation.#2- When you've been flagged for copyright infringement, that flag stays with you for a little while. All of your new auctions get watched for a little while. I had that happen with a friend who made a latex "halo" mask. He kept getting it pulled down repeatedly, I helped him write the ad copy, and as a test, we made sure the listing had NOTHING in it to state what the mask's likeness was of, nor what it was related to, etc.. It still got pulled, so he gave up. About a month later he gave it a shot and it worked, he tried it again with the same wording as the original auction, and it worked fine.My suggestion would be like Dowg said... go elsewhere for a little while and see if it blows over. There's classifieds here, frightstuff's classifieds, horrorbid, etc.. those get great attention from google so maybe start you own selling website and promote it through your auctions.There's also other auction groups.. I'm not sure if Yahoo auctions still exist, but I did a fair trade over there when I was dropshipping medical skeletons.. Someone undercut me severely on Ebay, selling at a loss because they were using the skeletons to promote other aspects of their business, so I went to yahoo with it and managed to do quite a bit of business before throwing in the towel because my wife ate all the profits from it rather than allow me to grow it.. (but that's a different story). Don't despair dude.. work on your marketing, and perhaps make a PDF catalog to email to your past clients, showing them what you have to offer, and perhaps offering a discount.As a consumer who's a horror fan, I'd love to have those kinds of things availible to me from folks that I've done good deals with before (or had friends who had good dealings). Who here hates a mask catalog?