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An unemployed Arkansas woman offering the opportunity to name her seventh child to the highest bidder on eBay says she lost nearly $15,000 when the Web site removed her first three auction attempts.

Lavonne Drummond, 36, told FOXNews.com that eBay removed her first auction — which she claimed garnered an offer of $15,000 from an unknown bidder — because "sellers are not permitted to solicit donations," according to an e-mail the Internet marketplace sent to the expectant mother.

Distraught but determined, Drummond said she posted the auction again the following day, only to see it removed, this time due to eBay's policy of prohibiting auctions that promote "giveaways, lotteries, sweepstakes, random drawing, raffles, contests or prizes," according to the company. That auction received no bids, Drummond said.

A third auction Drummond posted on Aug. 10 solicited a top bid of $510.99, she said, but that too was removed because an actual "item" was not offered for sale.

Drummond, of Smackover, Ark., was allowed to keep her fourth auction on the site following an inquiry by FOXNews.com, but she still feels cheated out of nearly $15,000 — money she says could buy her a new car or put a serious dent in her past-due bills.

"I am super disappointed," Drummond said. "I have bills mounting, my car broke down yesterday. And being disappointed took a lot of wind out of me, a lot of energy out of me."

In a statement to FOXNews.com on Thursday, eBay congratulated Drummond on the upcoming birth of her child, but it also defended its decisions.

"Her original listing was removed because it didn’t comply with our policies and it would be premature for us to comment on the current listing which hasn’t yet completed," the statement said.

Drummond — whose children are 19, 16, 14, 3, 2 and 1 — is due to deliver her seventh child on Sept. 16. She said the idea to sell the first name of the child, her second son, "just came" to her while thinking of ways out of her financial funk. When her eldest children saw the initial auction shuttered, along with the $15,000 bid, they were beyond deflated.