no more psychic readings on ebay

Doddsey

buggritt wrote: »

Do you extend that judgement to the Church of England? After all, a vicar makes a living by promising people eternal life. That been proven yet?
There's far too much of this going on. Protecting the "vulnerable".
I am acquainted with a few succesful people who believe in spiritualism.
Personally, I think the whole god thing, along with this, is total bollix.
But dumping on others beliefs is not the way we do things here.

He was on about commercial transactions. Now I might be mistaken, but when do you go into a church and the vicar charges you £4.95 for eternal life? At the end of the day, they are making a $$$$ load of money.

:idea:

Forget what I said, I need to get into this business!! :T

Mindless_Clone

Doddsey wrote: »

Forget what I said, I need to get into this business!! :T

:rotfl:

£4.95 is a bargain. I once paid a clairvoyant £15 to do a face to face reading. Before you ask, it was just for fun/the experience at a local fair and amused me to see what rubbish she would come out with. Thing is, she said she could see a pregnancy... at the time I was barely pregnant - far too soon along for even me to know I was. :eek: Whether she picked something up or not I don't know. I do know I don't actually believe in fortune telling as such; nobody can do that; but I do think that you can pick up an awful lot of information about a person if you train your mind to read the clues. And that, I think, is what a clairvoyant does. I just don't see how it's at all possible long distance. :huh:

Let's not muddy the waters assuming claivoyancy is a religion. Wiccan is, yes, but this is a business and people are selling, well, a couple of minutes of their time really. You can respect someone's beliefs but still find it abhorrent that they're making money out of other people's vulnerabilities.

Haffiana

I would find it equally repugnant if people were offering to pray (in any religion) on your behalf for money on eBay. I could understand desperate people buying such a service, but the seller would be a lowlife scum. it is exploitation. To call the transaction 'religious' or to squeal about intolerance etc etc is really delusional.

The people who should be siding with eBay's decision are those whose 'belief system' is being made a complete mockery by sellers of this exploitative rubbish.

ashleypride

buggritt wrote: »

Do you extend that judgement to the Church of England? After all, a vicar makes a living by promising people eternal life. That been proven yet?

This isn't about beliefs. I am sure everybody alive today has at some point done something superstitious or had a ritual, not walking under ladders, blowing dice, wearing lucky pants etc. Its the way we are, pattern hunting monsters.

This is about selling something that either you are deceiving yourself about, or deceiving others about. Whether it be, penis pumps, magic magnets, fat loss pills, or potions and spells.

Believe whatever makes you happy, just don't commit fraud.

adouglasmhor

RHemmings wrote: »

IMHO, in context that's like saying "if someone's out to scam and someone is stupid enough to fall for it, where's the problem?"

The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 probably ban them tbh.

RFW

I really have no idea if there are genuine psychics or not, but I know there are plenty of crooks involved. When 0898 numbers were popular we were in the same building as a dial a psychic company, they just employed anyone and their job was to keep the poor sod who had called on the line as long as possible.

The company were later exposed in the newspapers but by then the guy who ran it had moved on to something else.

Crowqueen

There are crooks in every business, from roofing to iPhone picture sellers to bent televangelists, though.

Singling out online psychics is unfair.

suited-aces

All "psychics" peddle bull, not all iPhone sellers sell pictures. Therein lies the difference.

soolin

Crowqueen wrote: »

There are crooks in every business, from roofing to iPhone picture sellers to bent televangelists, though.

Singling out online psychics is unfair.

I don't think they are being singled out though, the eBay ruling is also stopping the sale of wholesale lists and snake oil type business plans- so all things preying on the vulnerable.

Strapped

Crowqueen wrote: »

There are crooks in every business, from roofing to iPhone picture sellers to bent televangelists, though.

Singling out online psychics is unfair.

Show me ONE who can back up what they're saying, and I'll give them £1mn. Oh, wait, didn't someone already famously do that...funnily enough, it's still waiting to be claimed.

I have no problem with people's religious or other beliefs or practices, each to their own, but as already said, if they're selling it, they need to back it up.