eBay is racist.
Someone needs to send this article to the folks who hired Samuel Jackson to be their spokesman.
I hardly bother selling on Ebay much any more. Too many deadbeats and stupid people.
This morning I bought a scale model K5 blazer classic kit though.
I don’t really use people in my ads. More trouble than it’s worth.
There was this one exception years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=humlGWYgjhQ
The fuel crunch came and everyone who was interested of course was on the other side of the country.
Now researchers have shown that biases also extend to selling things on eBay. Harvard looked at how the thuggery of the seller affected auctions of thug cards on eBay. Some of the postings were accompanied by a photo of the card held by a thug-tattooed hand, and some with the card held by a non- thug-tattooed hand. The study shows that the cards held by a thug-tattooed hand sold for around 20 percent less than the cards held by non-thug sellers.
And the likelihood of the results of that "study" being actually true would be what?
Pretty close to zero?
Apparently nobody is the ebayverse wants to buy anything that a black man touched.
And even if it were true, so what? Blacks are always carrying about “Buy Black”, ie touting that blacks should do business with black-run, owned, and/or operated businesses whenever possible, why shouldn’t others have the right to do the same, if they feel like it?
Amazing.
These people have way too much time on their hands.
Who paid for this waste of time and money? Probably us, the taxpayers.
Perceived sleights, manufactured outrage, first-world problems.
“The study shows that the cards held by an African-American hand sold for around 20 percent less than the cards held by Caucasian sellers.”
The idiots should list their items as “Buy It Now” instead of auctioning off their stuff where if they don’t use good enough grammar and info in their listings’ titles, potential bidders tend not to find these items using intelligent search terms.
Proof Hussein is NOT BLACK!
If he were actually an American and black, this would have been Day 1 priority.
Cannabis was criminalized mostly to re enslave colored peoples.
Harry Anslinger https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
It's the problem of a lot of people have consumed cannabis and know Harry's "Reefer Madness" demonization to be utter equine excrement.
But hey, the nation swallowed that load, they'll swallow the PC load too.
Cool, so all anyone needs to do to boost bidding is have whiteness associated with it.
Hey, why stop there: hire a cute white chick in a thong to pose with your old power tools or dated computer and get rich!
bfl
I use eBay a bit. I’ve got a couple hundred transactions there, all purchases. I haven’t got a single clue about the skin color of ANY of the sellers. Even if anyone tried to reveal his skin color in any of the write-ups, I wouldn’t believe it, anyway. My purchase decisions are solely based on product requirements, cost, delivery, and sales reputation. Anyone who thinks otherwise, is just plain nuts.
"Slowly, I began to realize that when white people are alone, they give things to each other for free."
Unless all the auctions were for the same card (player) the study is pretty much meaningless.
Obviously the solution is to put a 20% surcharge on any ebay item sold by a black person. Its only fair, reflects our values and is who we are.
One more example of the waste of time and money spent by idiots at college campuses. In 1.5 years they’ll have found that they were wrong on this too.