Response to Ebay banning gun related items
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and I ADDED THIS:
Perhaps you should consider halting the sale of cars on eBay Motors too. FAR MORE folks are killed in automobiles than are killed by psychotics with firearms every year.
I regret that I will no longer be buying, selling, or looking on eBay due to your decision. I also regret that I must recommend the same to all of my students and clients.
and I ADDED THIS:
Perhaps you should consider halting the sale of cars on eBay Motors too. FAR MORE folks are killed in automobiles than are killed by psychotics with firearms every year.
I regret that I will no longer be buying, selling, or looking on eBay due to your decision. I also regret that I must recommend the same to all of my students and clients.
I'm not sure if I have read through the entire 6 pages of this thread, but I did not see a post about this petition to Matt Halprin that is currently going on:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ebay0001/petition.html
sigs are filling fast. An hour after I signed it, there were already something like 50 more signatures already.
http://www.petitiononline.com/ebay0001/petition.html
sigs are filling fast. An hour after I signed it, there were already something like 50 more signatures already.
LubeckTech
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To answer baz's question
Ebay as a general rule does not police it's listings (there is some key word filtering) but removes things mainly in responses to complaints. AS of acouple of days ago there were still some of the "banned" items listed but not many. After looking today I don't see hardly anything but there will be some from time to time in the future. I don't plan on canceling my Ebay account but will eventually provoke them into canceling me. One thing we can all do (which is the worst thing you can do to a sales oriented business like telemarketing) is waste their time. If they had just said their policy was strictly about liability it probably would not bother me. BUT Matt Halprin's snitty comments about "community safety" and "the right thing to do" while ebay sells countless items when misused can cause great injury or death is a BLANTANT insult. One which I will not walk away from!!
Ebay as a general rule does not police it's listings (there is some key word filtering) but removes things mainly in responses to complaints. AS of acouple of days ago there were still some of the "banned" items listed but not many. After looking today I don't see hardly anything but there will be some from time to time in the future. I don't plan on canceling my Ebay account but will eventually provoke them into canceling me. One thing we can all do (which is the worst thing you can do to a sales oriented business like telemarketing) is waste their time. If they had just said their policy was strictly about liability it probably would not bother me. BUT Matt Halprin's snitty comments about "community safety" and "the right thing to do" while ebay sells countless items when misused can cause great injury or death is a BLANTANT insult. One which I will not walk away from!!
packnrat
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for those who do not like the new e-bay policy. to bad!
it is a privet company and they can do as they please.
but as others here have posted it is a very bad thing they are doing,
banning any part, tool, addon, etc. for guns,
why stop there,
next year they can ban knives,
the next year?
i and many others are dropping e-bay and will not do anything to help them make any money, (sorry about your stock in them)
same goes for the paypal system.
i vote, and i spend my money in what pleases me.
e-bay does not please me, so i go else were.
it is a privet company and they can do as they please.
but as others here have posted it is a very bad thing they are doing,
banning any part, tool, addon, etc. for guns,
why stop there,
next year they can ban knives,
the next year?
i and many others are dropping e-bay and will not do anything to help them make any money, (sorry about your stock in them)
same goes for the paypal system.
i vote, and i spend my money in what pleases me.
e-bay does not please me, so i go else were.
alan
Member
packnrat writes:
for those who do not like the new e-bay policy. to bad!
it is a privet company and they can do as they please.
but as others here have posted it is a very bad thing they are doing,
banning any part, tool, addon, etc. for guns,
why stop there,
next year they can ban knives,
the next year?
i and many others are dropping e-bay and will not do anything to help them make any money, (sorry about your stock in them)
same goes for the paypal system.
i vote, and i spend my money in what pleases me.
e-bay does not please me, so i go else were.
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He is, respecting his opening observations, entirely correct, in-so-far as their actions or antics fall within the law. Additionally, as he also notes, what they have done is "a very bad thing". Add to that the fact that others, within the limits of the law, can also do whatever they like, including cancelling E/bay and or PayPal accounts(PayPal is owned by E/bay).
Should it turn out that E/bay begins to feel "pocketbook pain" as a result of their policies, the policies will change, given a significant enough level of pain. Absent this, they have made their decision, others can/will make theirs, including moving on to other suppliers.
In the past, I had bid on a couple of items on E/bay, ending up purchasing one of them, a marine sextant. The thing, in passing, was as advertrized, so no problem there with anyone. Given E/bay's recent moves, I'm not likely to make other purchases, unless and until their most reprehensible policies are changed. End of story, so far as I'm concerned.
for those who do not like the new e-bay policy. to bad!
it is a privet company and they can do as they please.
but as others here have posted it is a very bad thing they are doing,
banning any part, tool, addon, etc. for guns,
why stop there,
next year they can ban knives,
the next year?
i and many others are dropping e-bay and will not do anything to help them make any money, (sorry about your stock in them)
same goes for the paypal system.
i vote, and i spend my money in what pleases me.
e-bay does not please me, so i go else were.
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He is, respecting his opening observations, entirely correct, in-so-far as their actions or antics fall within the law. Additionally, as he also notes, what they have done is "a very bad thing". Add to that the fact that others, within the limits of the law, can also do whatever they like, including cancelling E/bay and or PayPal accounts(PayPal is owned by E/bay).
Should it turn out that E/bay begins to feel "pocketbook pain" as a result of their policies, the policies will change, given a significant enough level of pain. Absent this, they have made their decision, others can/will make theirs, including moving on to other suppliers.
In the past, I had bid on a couple of items on E/bay, ending up purchasing one of them, a marine sextant. The thing, in passing, was as advertrized, so no problem there with anyone. Given E/bay's recent moves, I'm not likely to make other purchases, unless and until their most reprehensible policies are changed. End of story, so far as I'm concerned.
HonorsDaddy
Member
packnrat
They are a private company and able to do as they please. This is true.
I am a private citizen and able to do as I please - which includes making people aware of eBay's anti-gun stance, and letting eBay know I'm taking my money elsewhere.
Isn't freedom great?
They are a private company and able to do as they please. This is true.
I am a private citizen and able to do as I please - which includes making people aware of eBay's anti-gun stance, and letting eBay know I'm taking my money elsewhere.
Isn't freedom great?
hoppinglark
Member
*AHEM
They HAVE banned Knives,and Animal Skins
So really the this ban seems to be more about destroying the use of Ebay for hunters than anything else.
I have a railroad stake that was forged into a knife by a blacksmith that I bought on Ebay. So where is this blacksmith supposed to sell his knives now?
Amazon.com market place?
Ubid.com ?
Yes it's a private company, and we are private citizens, so we can take our business elsewhere and make sure they know why.
birdbustr
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