no more psychic readings on ebay

Hughjass

soolin wrote: »

I think there's about 3 pages of that on the community boards , the psychics are getting pretty cross about it.

I cant seem to find this discussion on the community boards, would you have a link to it please:)

eta - its ok thanks I found it:)

soolin

Hughjass wrote: »

I cant seem to find this discussion on the community boards, would you have a link to it please:)

eta - its ok thanks I found it:)

Most of the threads got pulled, but hopefully you have found this one now:

http://community.ebay.co.uk/topic/Seller-Central/Banning-Spells-Blessing/1700087805

Mrs_Bones

As I understand it they are stopping things that unquantifiable, such as spells, readings or prayers etc and that includes Christians ones. Many people seem to be assuming this story is just about the pagan group and it's not as it covers all religions.

From a pagan prospective there are a few mixed opinions about this among the pagans I know. A few are seeing it as some sort of personal attack on their beliefs but many like myself can see it from Ebay's point of view and think it's probably a good thing. There are a lot of con artists out there, both of a religious mindset and those with no religion at all. Even if you got someone who didn't just take the money and run. Someone who genuinely did the readings or whatever that were paid for and send the results on, that is in no way quantifiable, how could you ever proved that it was done? Same with things like spells or prayers, they could never be verified. Not being a Wiccan personally I know my feelings on things like that differ from some of my Wiccan friends but my purely personal view is things like that should never be on Ebay anyway.

The are not getting rid of the Metaphysical & New Age sections completely, at least that is what Ebay currently state. Anything that is a solid product such candles or calenders etc, will still be available to buy. It's just the things with an none tangible element.

porto_bello

Mrs_Bones wrote: »

As I understand it they are stopping things that unquantifiable, such as spells, readings or prayers etc and that includes Christians ones. Many people seem to be assuming this story is just about the pagan group and it's not as it covers all religions.

From a pagan prospective there are a few mixed opinions about this among the pagans I know. A few are seeing it as some sort of personal attack on their beliefs but many like myself can see it from Ebay's point of view and think it's probably a good thing. There are a lot of con artists out there, both of a religious mindset and those with no religion at all. Even if you got someone who didn't just take the money and run. Someone who genuinely did the readings or whatever that were paid for and send the results on, that is in no way quantifiable, how could you ever proved that it was done? Same with things like spells or prayers, they could never be verified. Not being a Wiccan personally I know my feelings on things like that differ from some of my Wiccan friends but my purely personal view is things like that should never be on Ebay anyway.

The are not getting rid of the Metaphysical & New Age sections completely, at least that is what Ebay currently state. Anything that is a solid product such candles or calenders etc, will still be available to buy. It's just the things with an none tangible element.

I suspect the difference is that if you buy say a Bible, you are paying for the Bible, not the belief in it or the belief that something will occur having bought it.

To be honest, I've been surprised to discover that eBay has allowed sharks to peddle psychic nonsense for so long. I never thought that eBay would host such stuff, but at least it's coming to an end.

Mrs_Bones

porto_bello wrote: »

I suspect the difference is that if you buy say a Bible, you are paying for the Bible, not the belief in it or the belief that something will occur having bought it.

To be honest, I've been surprised to discover that eBay has allowed sharks to peddle psychic nonsense for so long. I never thought that eBay would host such stuff, but at least it's coming to an end.

Yes something like the Bible would still be available as it's a tangible object. Like you say you are paying for the object not the belief of what it represents. What will be banned is things like Christian prayers or readings etc that have no quantifiable factor.

soolin

A different view point

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/55332839#Comment_55332839

Mrs.W_2

Listings like the one below are a pain in the harris - they usually contain as many 'keywords' as possible to appear on completely unrelated searches.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HaUnTeD-ANTiQue-RiNG-MONEY-GyPsY-WiTcH-MaGiCk-PoWeRFuL-WeaLTH-SPeLL-JeWeLRy-RARE-/120969780725?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c2a5c5df5

(eta: I was searching for bronze terret rings at the time. They're usually called money rings.)

barmonkey

charlies_mum wrote: »

Out of interest Barmonkey, what are you basing your opinion on ?

I assume you have had a bad personal experience ?

No personal experience, I just dont like liers and if someone claims to talk to people from beyond the grave then they are a lier

charlies_mum

barmonkey wrote: »

No personal experience, I just dont like liers and if someone claims to talk to people from beyond the grave then they are a lier

Nice to see you are keeping an open mind on the subject

suited-aces

I'm pretty narrow minded when it comes to people exploiting the weak and vulnerable too. Never really looked on it as a negative trait to be honest.