Allowed

You can include these types of links in your eBay Store's home or custom pages:

• Unlimited links to your eBay items and pages

• Links to an email address that members can use to ask questions (see links to email addresses and online forms)

• Links to eBay Store pages of other members (with their permission) on your Store's home page (up to 10 links) and on your Store's custom pages (unlimited links)

• Links to your Add to My Favorite Sellers and Stores page

Restricted

• Links to web pages outside of eBay that provide information about your Store or service, as long as you're not promoting items being sold outside of eBay

Not allowed

• Linking from an eBay Store to websites that offer to trade, sell, or purchase goods or services

• Including additional contact information or tools on your Store's home page or in any header area of your Store

• Sellers with Store names or logos that include ".com", ".net", ".org", ".edu" or any variations like "_com" or "-com" can't include their Store's name or logo in the title or description of an eBay listing or eBay Store home page (other than automatic insertions by eBay like in the seller info area)

• Sellers with Store names or logos that include ".com", ".net", ".org", ".edu" or any variations like "_com" or "-com" can't turn on the Store's custom listing header

• With the exception of sellers who chose their Store name before our policy changed (on July 1, 2004), sellers can't use a web address as an eBay Store name

• Anchor Store logos that are used on the Stores home page have to include the official Store name, and the name can't include any of the variations of ".com" or other extensions like .net or .org

• Store logos and Anchor Store logos can't include phone numbers, email addresses, or other contact information

• Store logos and Anchor Store logos can't flash, move, or be animated

• Automatically redirected links aren't allowed; Sellers can't link to other eBay items or pages through a redirect on their own site

Restricted

You can add links to your About Me page, as long as you don't use language that promotes non-eBay websites or items being sold outside of eBay.

Restricted

• You can include one link in your listing to a page that gives additional information about your item. However, the page that you are linking to must include additional information about the specific item in your listing. You can't just link to a generic page on a manufacturer's website (such as the home page).

• The linked page also can't promote the sale of items outside of eBay.

Note: Any relevant information about the item needs to be included as text in the item description. Putting information in a photo or image is against this policy.

Restricted

You can include a link that opens an email client or an online form so bidders and buyers can ask questions about your listing, as long as you don't include links from the online form.

Restricted

You can include a single link to a page that gives additional detail about the terms and conditions of the sale. However, the page you link to can't include links to web pages outside of eBay, and the information on that linked page can't contradict the information in your listing.

Note: Remember that the most important parts of your terms and conditions have to be included in your listing, including shipping and handling information, types of payments you accept, terms of payment, and applicable taxes.

Allowed

• Links to photos of your item

• Links to a page in which information relating to your eBay or Half.com items is grouped in a picture gallery or similar format

Note: If you link to a page with additional photos on it, the purpose of the page must clearly be to provide potential buyers with images of the item for sale. While the photo page can contain discrete links to other pages that sell items outside of eBay, that can't be the primary purpose of the page.

Restricted

• You can mention or link to UnWired Buyer, which is a member of eBay's Developer and Affiliate programs, because their service doesn't encourage sniping.

• You can include a live chat link in your About Me page or custom Stores pages, but not in your Store home page.

Not allowed

Your listings and other eBay pages can't include:

• Links to websites or pages that solicit eBay user IDs, passwords, or email addresses from members.

• Links to websites or pages that encourage buyers to place their bids outside of eBay. For example, you can't mention "auction sniping" websites, because you have to use your eBay user ID and password.

• Links or other connections to live chat systems. You may include your chat user names in an item description, but not a link to chat.

• Links or solicitations to subscribe to non-eBay newsletters or mailing lists.

• Links to websites or pages offering items that are not allowed on eBay

• Links to web pages that offer to trade, sell, or buy goods or services outside of eBay, including other auction-style websites.

• Links to websites or pages that show material that is inappropriate for general audiences.

Not allowed

If you use logos for any of the permitted links, they must:

• Be 88 x 33 pixels or smaller in size

• Not flash or move, with the exception of links to your eBay or Half.com listings

• Not represent, brand, or advertise a website outside of eBay, except in listings offering a domain name for sale

Restricted

You can include a video in your listings as long as it can be played back within the listing. But you're not allowed to link from your description to a video on another website.

When you include a video in your listing, the content and format must follow these guidelines:

• You must be the owner of the underlying rights, including intellectual property rights, or be authorized to distribute it by the owners of such rights.

• It has to be in Adobe's Flash animation format.

• The video must be hosted by one of these sites:

  • AuctionMercial

  • AuctionVideo

  • CarTHINK

  • CreativeVideosOnline

  • Dailymotion

  • eCommercePlayer

  • Google

  • i2iAuction

  • Microsoft

  • Motionbox

  • MySpace

  • Silverdock

  • Vzaar

  • YouTube

If you don't see your video hosting site above, you're not allowed to include the video in your listing.

Not allowed

• You can't use the video to violate any eBay policy. For example:

  • You can't use your video to ask members to pay using unsafe payment methods like Western Union. For more information, see our accepted payments policy.

  • You can't include links in the video.

  • You can't include adult content in the video.

• The video can't include software that harms or interferes with a member's computer, uses it for malicious or unauthorized purposes, or violates a member's privacy. For example, the video can't include a virus or spyware.