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http://www2.ebay.com/aw/marketing.shtml
Policy Update: Offensive Items Policy
Date: 11/17/04 Time: 09:21:36 AM PST
One of eBay’s key Community Values is that we treat others as we would like to be treated. In keeping with this principle, we are updating our offensive items policy to clarify how terms that are racially or ethnically offensive may be used on the site.
Use of terms that are racially or ethnically offensive to describe items have no place in the eBay marketplace and eBay will not tolerate such material. Further, when selling potentially offensive yet true historical pieces, sellers must ensure that the language in their listings shows appropriate sensitivity to those in the Community that might view it. Sellers may use such words and phrases in the title and description of their listings within media categories such as Books, Movies and Music, provided that the offensive words are actually part of the title of the listed item.
To learn more about this policy update, as well as examples of the types of items that will be removed from the site, please take time to review our Offensive Items policy. To read eBay’s Community Values, please click here.
Regards,
eBay
Prohibited and Offensive Items - Offensive Material http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/...geName=CMDV:AB
Blanche
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Idiots.
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Way to go, Ebay, keep creating those niche markets!!
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Examples of items that will generally be removed:
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- Electric chairs and related capital punishment items
Oh, this is just going to kill the electric chair collectibles market! What were they thinking?
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...related capital punishment items
Does this mean they won't even give us enough rope to hang ourselves?
Ms. C.
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The customer service reps and the "watchers" are going to have a field day with this one. So many violations to report, so many listings to pull and so little thought.
Blanche
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Further, when selling potentially offensive yet true historical pieces, sellers must ensure that the language in their listings shows appropriate sensitivity to those in the Community that might view it.
Ebay has just reached the point that they need to give a precise definition of "true historical pieces" (as well as "couple of handfuls" ). Much of what is banned on Ebay now is, in my opinion, true historical pieces - and in spite of the cynicism above, I consider that an early electric chair would be a true historic item.
I have seen Victorian "morgue photographs" make into the thousands in New York upmarket photograph auctions, and there is a very strong "post mortem" photograph market on Ebay. The latter are usually very respectful photographs lovingly taken of someone who was never photographed in life - are these now deemed to be "offensive" by this Ebay ruling? A few years ago I got $400 for a still life stereoview showing a skull sitting on a book - is this now a banned item?
Ebay is rapidly becoming an unworkable pile of fecal matter for anyone who wants to sell genuinely historic items on an International market. Such a wasted resource.
Bah, Kevin
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Whew! eBay and values. That was a good one!
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...1959 989&rd=1
I've seen most of these items at one time or another on ebay ...
http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/...ase1right.html