Lately, they’ve been removing many listings of A19 incandescent bulbs within hours of listing, but they’re not perfect as there are still some up. All this thanks to the 2023 ban. Just take a look around for yourself. Lots of LED, not as much incandescents as before.

Wow, that's ridiculous! You can't buy or sell them! It's easier to get weed! Didn't Trump unban them or something?

Man, It should be the other way round- LEDs get banned and Incandescent get to be sold. I have no clue why are they trying to get rid of these incandescent bulbs even though they have no mercury + toxic gases in them. The only thing what I see a negative in them is that they get very hot and maymelt if current gets too high. Otherwise, these nasty things should be

 I've seen a few different ways around this .  Not using the word Incandescent in the listing , spelling it wrong I.E. Incande$cent , Not LED , Old Style light bulb , ETC.

Yep, I've been selling lots of things on eBay lately and the word "incandescent" is flagged. You have to remove it to successfully list lamps for sale.

It's actually simpler than that... I get around the ban by simply marking the category as "Business & Industrial → Facility Maintenance → Lamps & Lighting Parts" or whatever the subcategories are called.

What I dont understand is how incondecent lightbulbs were able to be around for 100s of years

While nowadays it seams every 20years we create something new we deem "better" even if in some ways its not and activly try to prevent people that actualy try to use the older lights ( for their own reasons) to not be able to do so

And worst of all, everyone does it (or if not now, will start doing so), so u cant even move to some other country

I cant even blame one political party for it, cuz it seams no matter who is in power, they all have the same thinking

What was different 100years ago, then now?
Why didnt people back in the day ban lighting tehnologies?

There was a different culture back then. There was less government, and the people were expected to make the right choices. Now it is assumed that the erroneous, dumb masses will not make the right choices, so the good, smart politicians must make sure that they do.

That does make sense yea

But why is this happening everywhere it seams (everywhere I look there seam to be a law about banning traditional things (and if not now, its in the back of some politicians minds) (lightbulbs, ice cars, etc)

We dont have united eart, and I hope we never do, cuz imagine one political party telling u what to do and you dont have anywhere to run away to

Although, with some things (lightbulbs, ice cars) we already seam to be heading in that direction

If you look at other versions of eBay for countries other than the USA, I do not see any of them with a policy that prohibits the sale of incandescent lamps. For example, if you look at ebay.co.uk, there should be no policy regulating the sale of incandescent lamps.

What I dont understand is how incondecent lightbulbs were able to be around for 100s of years

While nowadays it seams every 20years we create something new we deem "better" even if in some ways its not and activly try to prevent people that actualy try to use the older lights ( for their own reasons) to not be able to do so

And worst of all, everyone does it (or if not now, will start doing so), so u cant even move to some other country

I cant even blame one political party for it, cuz it seams no matter who is in power, they all have the same thinking

What was different 100years ago, then now?
Why didnt people back in the day ban lighting tehnologies?

Always been like that.
In the late 1920s, trucks and lorries with solid wheels were prohibited even though they only had been on the market for 15 or 20 years or so. Reason: solid wheels damage city streets. Owners had to replace them with the now standard air filled tires, or possibly solid rubber tires (i don't know the details).

Horse trams? Prohibited. Why? With the number of horse trams in big cities, the amount of horse piss and (...) in the streets was unacceptable. They had to be replaced by steam, and later electric trams - or cable cars.

Town gas/coal gas/lighting gas? As soon as natural gas reserves were found, the entire population of my country was forced to switch over to natural gas. Why? Gas factories are incredibly polluting, producing large amounts of PCBs, sulphur compounds and all other kinds of nasties that were often just dumped into the nearest river. Furthermore, coal gas consists of an important part of carbon monoxide which lead to deaths if the pilot flame (remember, this is the pre-thermocouple gas valve era!) or burner went out but the gas kept flowing.
It should be obvious that natural gas is way cleaner than having a coal gasification plant in every city. My country gave subsidies to those who were forced to replace their appliances. In many other cases the appliance could be fitted with a different orifice and be converted to natural gas.

Steam trams? Yes, even those were eventually banned from some cities, because they were too loud and polluting. House wifes didn't take too kindly on having coal soot blown over their freshly washed clothes. AFAIK Paris had some special high pressure air operated trams for a while until electrics came along. Even in the 1920s people cared about pollution. Just not everywhere, and only where you could see the immediate effects like soot stains on clothes you hang to dry outside.

With regards to lighting tech, i am sure that there are regulations to be found on the type of lighting that should be used in cities. Perhaps very over arching, like 'The light intensity on well traveled roads in and near the city is required to be X lux' which does not explicitely prohibit oil lanterns, but they definitely de facto prohibit oil lanterns and gas burners without the mantle. You just have to really dig into archives to find evidence of that. And if you also start digging into the news papers from that era, i'm sure you'll find wistful memoires about the romance of gas lighting that is destroyed and replaced by those gosh darn incandescent lights.

Finally, i do agree that stupidity runs rampant in politics. One cause in my country, is that under the 'make the government smaller to save tax money' movement we've had in my country for 20 years now, many highly educated advisors and engineers that were on government payroll, have been let go. Instead, the government now hires external for-profit consultancy firms.
Obviously that A. does not actually make things cheaper because external consultancy is screamingly expensive, and B. the national and local governments now have way less technical knowledge 'inside'. That means you fully have to rely on the fancy consultancy reports, while being practically 'blind' or 'illiterate' as a local/national government when it comes to tech and science stuff.
You can't call out consultancy firms and populist fellow politicians on their (...), if you cannot distinguish between technical and scientific facts and management babble yourself.

That does make sense yea

But why is this happening everywhere it seams (everywhere I look there seam to be a law about banning traditional things (and if not now, its in the back of some politicians minds) (lightbulbs, ice cars, etc)

We dont have united eart, and I hope we never do, cuz imagine one political party telling u what to do and you dont have anywhere to run away to

Although, with some things (lightbulbs, ice cars) we already seam to be heading in that direction

Probably the main reason why they ban Incandescent bulbs is because of business. They invent a new light source like LED and then ban these Incandescent bulbs because if they wouldn't be banned, then the manufactures who make LED bulbs wouldn't get as much cash as they do now

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you notice what they are doing-it is for business and money

I wonder if it's by country too, there's still some incandescent listings on Canadian eBay, even under the household light bulbs category that has the ban on incandescent bulb sales.

I think even without a ban, people have largely stopped using incandescent lamps due to energy costs. You saw this first in commercial and industrial use starting in the 1940s and 1950s (replaced with fluorescent), roadway lighting in the 1950s (replaced with MV). Even though energy costs were comparatively cheaper back then, there was still enough of a incentive for those users to switch to fluorescent and HID. That's not even considering the longer service intervals with fluorescent and HID and the generally higher illumination levels possible due to the lower power consumption.

Residential users kept using incandescent for longer, linear fluorescent made some inroads in residential in the 1950s and 1960s mainly in the kitchen and garage but CFL and later LED convinced a good number of people to switch. You can still buy a limited selection of incandescent bulbs in Canada (25w and under general service, 40w appliance and decorative, 60w, 100w rough service, 150w+ general service) but you hardly see a lot of people using them due to the energy costs it takes to run them.

Fluorescent and HID seems to be following a similar path, with most larger businesses switching to LED but some smaller businesses still have fluorescent.

I have noticed the same happening to listings to fluorescent tubes. You sometimes have to call them very weird names in order for the listings not to get taken down it seems.

It seems like they are trying to enforce the EU ban on fluorescent lighting that has been in effect since 2023.