High gasoline prices are a major issue too.
And sharp objects.
Posted on 08/04/2007 5:28:52 PM PDT by monkeycard
Years ago, eBay banned the sale of all complete firearms on its online auction and shopping website. However, they did continue to allow the sale of parts and many accessories. This week, a spokesman for eBay announced that the company would ban the sale of all gun-and-ammunition-related parts and components.
The ban is set to begin in mid-August, when eBay will prohibit the listing of “any firearm part that is required for the firing of a gun.” This prohibition will include, according to eBay, “bullet tips, brass casings and shells, barrels, slides, cylinders, magazines, firing pins, trigger assemblies, etc.” In explaining the decision to restrict these items, Matt Halprin, eBay’s Vice President, Trust & Safety, said, “After much consideration, the Trust & Safety policy team – along with our executive leaders at eBay Inc.– have made the decision to further restrict more of these items than federal and state regulations require.” [emphasis added]
With this action, eBay sends the message that they don’t want, or appreciate, law-abiding gun owners’ business. By banning these legal products, eBay is adopting the anti-gun movement’s opposition to all legal gun ownership. Fortunately, gun owners and sportsmen have alternatives.
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It’s just a liability issue, plain and simple. Ebay is a big enough target just via their shoddy business practices. How long before someone sues them for getting shot with a pistol assembled from parts bought off Ebay?
It’s just a liability issue, plain and simple. Ebay is a big enough target just via their shoddy business practices. How long before someone sues them for getting shot with a pistol assembled from parts bought off Ebay?
You can say that again. Wait, you just did.
Already canceled my EBay account.
And yet they still sell cars, hammers, saws, knives, axes...
High gasoline prices are a major issue too.
And sharp objects.
True, but you know as well as I that the legal establishment does not regard guns in the same vein as axes, knives, etc, even when they are modified so as to be useless except as weapons, like the Spyderco Civilian I bought off there.
Why? I know that ebay is run by lefties, but there's so much stuff on there you can't find anywhere else.
Besides, why would you want to buy firearms on ebay anyway? You can get a piece anywhere now.
eBay is a for-profit corporation and has the right to sell or not sell anything they want. It is run by a bunch of leftists but they understand and facilitate free-market capitalism at its finest and they deserve a lot of credit for that.
“Already canceled my EBay account.”
Kinda dumb, unless you really aren’t into online auctions anyway.
Ebay can set whatever policy they wish about whatever product they wish. Free country, free economy and all that stuff. And you don’t have to do business with them if you don’t want to.
If Ebay doesn’t want firearm revenue, so what? Kroger doesn’t sell guns, and Cabela’s doesn’t sell bread, but they both still get my business.
See, that’s what I don’t understand. FReepers won’t give liberals their props when it comes to using technology as a business. Almost all of the profitable websites were started by liberal slackers.
This is quite simply NOT a Second Amendment issue, eBay and other online sites practice capitalism at its finest, nobody is REQUIRED to sell firearms.
Ebay has no credibility!!!! They allow a seller to continue who has over 1,000 negatives and over 1,000 neutral feedbacks EVERY MONTH. I have complained but their response was evasive.
you know as well as I that the legal establishment does not regard guns in the same vein as axes, knives, etc
You obviously haven’t checked with those fine folks in Great Britain yet to see where this trend is headed. Hint: A couple was arrested foe using mace to defend themselves and charged with felony possesion of a banned weapon.
Turds like the ones running Eghay refusing to stand up to them because of their liberalism are another.
Nothing I can't get elsewhere. Besides, most of what I was buying off Ebay was once fired and hard cast in bulk. If they aren't selling that any more, I've got no reason to go.
BTW Cabelas sells a bit more than just "bread".
But hey, if you want to try and excuse their liberalism and anti-gun agenda, it's your right to do so. Just don't think it reflects well on you....
Ebay claims that they are simply a broker. No reason why folks shouldn’t critize them for their anti-gun stance.
I don’t blame them. Its a big headache for a small market. Makes perfect business sense.
Exactly. They used the lame excuse that ammo or gun parts MAY have been used in the Va Tech tragedy.
By that same thinking then, they should drop eBay Motors as the shooter MAY have arrived via a car bought on eBay or he MAY have been wearing clothes . . .
Fear of litigation my fanny, they are following an agenda and using that fear as a cover up.
They will only drive those banned sellers to auctionarms or gunbroker. Those sellers will find those auctions list your article for free as well as free Buy It Now and an unlimited time frame if they wish, and pass the word to non-gun owners. At some point those sites will start carrying other items (if they are smart) and start cutting into eBays profits.
I couldn't be happier if that happened.
Womp! There it is.
Why would you even consider doing business with a seller who has a negative rating? Assuming you don’t, why worry about it?
Ebay has put in place a very effective system that any consumer should be able to use. Caveat emptor and all that.
Nobody blames eBay for fearing lawyers, but they are certainly caving in to fear and political blackmail.
If businesses would take more of a stand, we wouldn’t be losing so many rights. There wouldn’t be day-long sexual harassment seminars that insult our intelligence all because someone told a dirty joke at work and won $5 million for it.
I don’t totally blame eBay, but damn them for giving in. This has to end somewhere.
ebay gives you that info so that YOU can make an informed decision. If that seller is so BAD he will not remain. Get a clue
But if you collect antique firearms like I do, you will not find the very rare gun parts on Gunbroker, Auctionarms, or GunsAmerica like you can find on eBay. Folks who are not gun savy and who have never heard of the above web sites will sell fantastic old gun parts that belonged to grandpa or are found in the attic for incredibly low prices on eBay.
I once found an original cylinder for an 1858 Remington revolver in mint condition on eBay for $60. If you ever find anything like that on the gun action sites it would be a $500 item.
” It’s just a liability issue, plain and simple. Ebay is a big enough target just via their shoddy business practices. How long before someone sues them for getting shot with a pistol assembled from parts bought off Ebay?”
I agree and I have no problem with a private auction house (online or otherwise) deciding what products they will and won’t offer. If this was because of a government mandate it would be a different story. That said I no longer use ebay anymore because fraud seems to be way up lately.
What’s next, knives and baseball bats?
LMAO!!
Yeah...you try running a business and show a profit...a law (hmmm allah) suit will drive you in the poor house sooner than you can say allah, suit. Do you have any idea what an attorney cost these days?
Sad isn’t it?
“like the Spyderco Civilian I bought off there.”
That is one of the knives I carry everyday.
meat, meat, meat, and more meat, and some ‘huckleberry chocolates’
great for an atkins diet
Prolly not private litigation. But some empire state nutjob like Bloomie.
What’s next, knives and baseball bats?
Maybe. Aren’t you a capitalist or are you a socialist???? Why are you angry that they are selling what they want to sell. You are clearly more of a person who demands to sell items that you want them to sell instead of letting them have a choice. Maybe guns were not sold well or maybe background checks were difficult. I don’t know the reason, but it is their reason!!! America is great because we are not socialist!!!!
Thanks to the ban by eBay, you will now.
“One of”? How many knives do you carry?
Normally I only carry the Civilian and a Spyderco Ladybug on the key chain, but for some events and certain bars, I will carry a large sheath knife, and on rare occasion, I might wear my Bill Bagwell Hells Belle in it’s belly sheath.
No matter what the Civilian is always with me, except when I am camping, then I carry a different combination.
I have a good idea, but in this case eBay is practicing selective outrage for the reasons in my original post. Fear of litigation, while ever present, is also a great cover up.
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