Wave bye bye to eBay

[Fisherman_48768]

Ebay lost another

Anyone following Ebay stock? did it take a hit this week?

 

[LAK]

This new update continues to encourage safety among our community members and brings our policies in the U.S. and Canada in closer alignment with our existing policies in other markets around the globe

Emphasis mine. And here yet another manifestation of globalism and it's new-style "free trade" as a vehicle for political change; in this case ideological and political homogenization.

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[230RN]

Way, waaaaaay off topic, but with a modicum of redeeming value

Hey, Pax !

Shouldn't your title be "Moderatrix Emerita" or some such?

And if there were more than one lady moderator, wouldn't they be "moderatrices?"

Well, you know:

"Alumnus" v "alumna?"

"Index" v "Indices?"

"Vortex" v "Vortices?"

"Kleenex" v "Kleenices?"

(Couldn't help myself. That's been tickling my funnybone for days and I just had to say it and I just woke up and my sense of high road decorum hasn't kicked in yet.)


But, more to the point of this thread, if nobody's noted it before, aren't Paypal payments accepted in the "Donate to THR" thread?

 

[patentmike]

Stocks? You can't get stocks on ebay any more. There aren't many publicly traded companies that sell stocks, but they are doing well.

http://stockcharts.com/charts/performance/perf.html?ebay,swhc,rgr

 

[Picknlittle]

Craigslist

I just had a WTB ad kicked off Craigslist because it was weapons related. Their policy is even worse than ebay's.

 

[Picknlittle]

Where can I find Matt Halprin's email address?

 

[dust_101]

Emails can be sent to:

[email protected]

Expect a canned response, but it is about the only place you can email...

 

[vis-à-vis]

I sent them an e-mail of protest. Here is the reply:

Hello Mr. XXXXX,

Thank you for your recent email to Matt Halprin regarding the changes to
our Firearms, Weapons and Knives policy. He has asked that I respond on his
behalf. At eBay we take the safety of our community and our marketplace very seriously. We have a Trust and Safety team which consists of more than 2,000 experts in online security and safety who are located around the globe. This team is dedicated to ensuring that our marketplace is a safe and trusted place for buyers and sellers to engage in trade. We value an open and transparent marketplace; if items are legal to buy and sell in an unrestricted manner we allow them on our site. However, there are some items that while legal, may not be safe for our marketplace. In these instances, our applicable policies go beyond the law to ensure that our marketplace is safe.

After careful consideration our executives and our Trust and Safety team
determined that while legal, any item required to fire a gun has no place on eBay. All of our policies are under constant review. As the internet and the way our communities use the internet evolves, our policies and our marketplace must evolve with it. We have determined that this policy change was in the best interest of promoting a safe marketplace for all members.

Regards,
Mike Smith
Office of the President
eBay, Inc.

You smell that?

 

[dust_101]

....Got a response from eBay... they CALLED.

Think the poor girl read from the same script the folks emailing are doing, but at least I found out the change will take effect on August 12th, and as of the 13th they will start pulling auctions.

 

[EricTheBarbarian]

before you know it terrorists and drug dealers will be buying trans fats off of ebay. there should be a law against it!! ebay needs to be stopped
i got some good deals on brass off of ebay but that was a long time ago. THR should take up the slack with their own auction site for firearms and firearm related items.

 

[Cliff47]

Am I the first to think this: All together now..."Bye, Bye, eBay...Bye, Bye"?

 

[Sulaco]

Yeah what's the big deal? I stopped using them back the last time they did this. Of course, back then they didn't have any canned response when I canceled my account.

 

[ArmedBear]

Wave?

Does the one-fingered wave count?

 

[fletcher]

Just wrote a letter.

 

[Picknlittle]

Emails can be sent to:

[email protected]

Got it. Many thanks.

 

[Matt King]

There is a letter writing campaign underway in Activism. It's a great place to post your letters, and ebay's responses.

 

[Don't Tread On Me]

LOL .....funny responses in this thread.



Ebay has ALWAYS hated guns from day 1. They are owned and run by a bunch of california leftcoast liberal gun haters. Early on, they appreciated the money it made them. After that, it was irrelevant to them, but it wasn't easy for them to wipe out gun related items entirely. Which is why they used the incremental approach.


VT shooting gives them the excuse to completely eliminate. It really doesn't give them the excuse because it isn't an excuse. But to them, they feel it is a reason - and when you question them, they can refer to that and to public safety. Whereas, without the VT shooting, it would just appear to be their blatant anti-gun bigotry. It would be their fault. In their view, this shifts it from an Ebay policy of their choosing to something they were forced to react to.


The only people that condemn Ebay as anti-gun is us. However, the larger middle of the road ignoramuses can view this as sensible. Whereas they would have viewed this as Ebay coming down on guns for political reasons.


Thus, the shift from political bias to public safety.


We've seen that happening in government also with the rise of the police state and the GWOT. That's something to worry about.


As for Ebay. They are a private company, so who cares. The gun culture has existed for hundreds of years before Ebay. Some of you are acting like this is a major move against us. They are insignificant.

 

[BamBam-31]

Bought my Bar=Sto barrel and bushing for my Springer Loaded from Ebay. $100, NIW. Prolly cuz not too many people thought to look for one there. Now, if I go to Gunbroker, people will prolly punch up Bar-Sto twelve times a second....oh, well.

I think the main point is, Ebay is a ginormous (that's a word now, isn't it?) company, and their policies are sending out a loud anti-gun message. It doesn't matter that we have other avenues with which to buy/sell gun-related items. If Walmart's doing it, and Ebay's doing it, how long before other companies hop on the bandwagon and become Nanny-Corps?

 

[gezzer]

Emailing them is Peeing in the wind. I prefer to outwit them at their own game same as I have been doing for the last 10 years.

But of course the JR. G-Men and eBay volunteer police will be hard to get by as they are very active on this and other gun forums.

 

[Matt King]

Email Sent. They can't ignore a wave of pro-gun emails.

 

[Cannonball888]

They can't ignore a wave of pro-gun emails.

They probaby are ignoring them in that they are not readig them in their entirety. Once they know it's a protest or cancelled membership letter they automatically send out the appropriate canned response.

 

[30 cal slob]

folks,

e-bay's loss is another business' (gunbroker etc) gain.

and frankly, i've been buying a ton more gun-related stuff from the buy-sell-trade forums of THR and other boards than i ever have with e-bay.

think whitman will give a rat's arse?

no.

 

[jr45]

Ebay Petition

Found this on petition castboolits. i signed it...don't what type of impact it will have on eBay.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ebay0001/

 

[Roadkill]

Cancelled mine yesterday. Had an account for at least eight years - ninety percent of purchases were militaria/firearm related. F' em.

 

[jr45]

Town hall MTG

You can voice your concerns at the next Ebay town hall meeting on 15 Aug 07.

http://pages.ebay.com/townhall/?ssPageName=CMDV:AB