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Created by Eric Dailey on May 24, 2006, 6:40 pm

eBay recently instituted a policy banning the sale of Teacher Edition educational materials. The primary reason for this policy, according to eBay, is that they cannot tell if the person buying the materials is a student that wishes to cheat.

As a result of this policy, eBay has cancelled many of its member's auctions. eBay members that are selling these Teacher Edition materials are typically homeschool parents who are selling complete homeschool curriculum packages (which include the homeschool teacher reference materials) to other homeschool parents, as well as people selling antique educational books from other eras.

Homeschoolers often rely on selling their used curriculum in order to pay for the next year's educational materials. eBay's policy makes this practice nearly impossible on their website.

By signing this petition, you are acknowledging that you agree to the following:

* This eBay policy is not logical, is unfair, and should be changed to allow legitimate homeschool materials and educational antiquities to be sold on the eBay website.
* If it is too difficult for eBay to enforce the policy given the allowances above, then the policy should be eliminated altogether.
* By its very nature, this eBay policy is prejudiced against homeschoolers.
      


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1,003 29 Aug 2008 - 4:37    Thomas Christian: I support this petition.
1,002 29 Aug 2008 - 4:34    Trisha Christian: I support this petition.
1,001 10 Feb 2008 - 20:43    Dawn Meier : I recently was a victim of Ebay's policy and had my Teacher's Edition auction cancelled. I had no idea TE's were forbidden as I did a search and there were 11 active TE auctions and 101 TE's for sale on Ebay Stores. I am just sorry to see that this petition has gone on so long and Ebay has ignored it.
1,000 7 Feb 2008 - 13:46    Jenni D. : This is just not fair to the homeschoolers. And your policy is not what you intended it to be. Do you really think a kindergarten math curriculum that has no grading can be used by kids the wrong way c'mon! This is out of control and the homeschoolers feel like you just have some people that don't support hsing.
999 5 Feb 2008 - 23:10    Shelly : Ebay seems to be targeting homeschoolers. This is very unfair. This policy needs to be changed.
998 5 Feb 2008 - 19:42    Trish Alexander :
997 5 Feb 2008 - 15:57    A.M. Kerchner :
996 5 Feb 2008 - 13:00    Candice Palmer : Please support the homeschooling families.
995 5 Feb 2008 - 12:46    Suzanne Ezell : There are many more objectionable items that kids could buy on ebay. Besides that you are supposed to be 18 to buy anything on ebay. I myself don't shop on ebay anymore because of this policy.
994 5 Feb 2008 - 2:33    Beth Berhow : This policy is absolutely predjudicial against home educators.
993 5 Feb 2008 - 0:58    Louise Wiles : Public schools get their curriculum that the public cannot usually purchase. So what is the point of discriminating homeschoolers from getting the material to teach their children properly.
992 5 Feb 2008 - 0:54    Jamie Zemann : I am a homeschool parent of five with a very limited income. I would love to be able to buy teaching aterials cheap on ebay. I get everything else including clothes for my kids off of ebay. So I don't understand why we can't buy or sell teaching materials. If the cheating is the problem if they don't get them off of ebay they will go to a book store. So that will not eliminate the problem.
991 4 Feb 2008 - 19:22    Michele Schissler : We homeschoolers need teachers editions to help teach our children!!!
990 4 Feb 2008 - 17:42    Nicole Fravel :
989 4 Feb 2008 - 15:59    Kent Niebuhr : We homeschooling parents need teachers' editions too.
988 10 Jan 2008 - 23:38    screamyguwain : I support this petition. This policy of eBay is stupid. >:[
987 9 Apr 2007 - 3:57    Andrew Brennan : this policy of ebay is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. if any highschooler feels the need to spen the money to buy a teacher's edition book, Ebay should not be put in a role as moral judge. for god sake's their a corporation, the term moral judge seems like an oxymoron when talking about a corporation
986 26 Mar 2007 - 22:13    jgjhgjg : gfdvrrr
985 24 Mar 2007 - 23:48    Geri S : I can't believe that ebay has a problem with letting homeschoolers buy and sell their curriculums. There should be no reason why we can't do so!
984 16 Mar 2007 - 0:46    Cindy Paris :
983 13 Mar 2007 - 23:15    Dustin D. : If I want to cheat, then by golly let me, I'm not gonna be a doctor when I grow up
982 2 Mar 2007 - 10:05    Rebecca :
981 23 Feb 2007 - 22:06    Ruth Tluzek : Prohibited Items? It is not like these are things that can hurt people. They are books! Are you going to quite selling other books because you do not like the information they contain?
980 17 Feb 2007 - 23:45    swsafassad :
979 5 Feb 2007 - 5:59    Stacey Hurley : Homeschoolers rely on selling their used curriculums to pay for next year. This policy is very prejudiced. It's not eBay's job to decide who can buy an item.
978 1 Feb 2007 - 4:34    shemales stories : Superb! (I wrote something else and then I read below that I aint supposed ter. So I deleted it.)
977 31 Jan 2007 - 12:22    shemales pictures : Superb! (I wrote something else and then I read below that I aint supposed ter. So I deleted it.)
976 31 Jan 2007 - 8:05    shemales stories : Superb! (I wrote something else and then I read below that I aint supposed ter. So I deleted it.)
975 27 Jan 2007 - 17:04    trmadol : Bonjour! What a super websight! Very refreshing to peruse from where we live in Paris (France). I eat frogs and drink wine. Woold like more informatons on this. Best regards! Mikael.
974 27 Jan 2007 - 6:57    trmadol : I got the same tramadol attack... well, not the same, because it was only about 20 comments instead of 90, and i t have any filtering set up, and I just deleted them one at a time... hmm.. the only thing really in common was that it was about tramadol... what filter do you have set up that caught them all?
973 27 Jan 2007 - 5:23    tramadol : I got the same tramadol attack... well, not the same, because it was only about 20 comments instead of 90, and i t have any filtering set up, and I just deleted them one at a time... hmm.. the only thing really in common was that it was about tramadol... what filter do you have set up that caught them all?
972 9 Jan 2007 - 6:15    Sharon Becker : Restricting purchase of teacher materials to 18y/o and above would be a better alternative.
971 7 Jan 2007 - 0:54    Brian Lane :
970 4 Jan 2007 - 1:45    Holly : I cant believe that Ebay would do this to innocent homeschool teachers!
969 7 Dec 2006 - 6:19    jade : I hope Ebay doesn't think it's any harder to "cheat" by implementing this. I'm a home schooler and i think it's very unfortunate that people will have to hold on to materials that they no longer need, and still hav to purchases what's needed for next year. I can be quite expensive =[
968 24 Nov 2006 - 1:51    Jenny Higgs :
967 21 Nov 2006 - 21:04    terri hardy : I am very disappointed in Ebay's unfairness to the homeschooling community.
966 11 Oct 2006 - 20:35    Stacey Rickman :
965 11 Oct 2006 - 8:17    Annamae Nedrow : If you have to restrict teachers editions set it to adult only purchases... don't ban them.
964 1 Sep 2006 - 22:45    maedot : I support this petition I am one of the Homeschoolers we need to buy educational books with out restriction.
963 1 Sep 2006 - 2:18    Elena LaVictoire : It seems that it wouldn't be too much trouble to discover which publishers cater to homeschoolers and at least alow those TMs to sell on eBay!
962 31 Aug 2006 - 22:31    Milly Jackson : There has to be some way for ebay to make it possible for home schooling parents to be able to obtain books from their site without materials being used for cheating purposes.
961 31 Aug 2006 - 18:17    Anita DeLaHoz : I am a homeschooling mom who has just begun homeschooling. Curriculum is very expensive to buy and one of the avenues other hs moms told to alleviate cost was ebay which you now have taken away.
960 31 Aug 2006 - 17:40    Tammy Glaser : This policy is really stupid. If a student consistently solves all the problem exactly like the book, I would hope a teacher is not foolish enough to miss that. A student is still going to have to memorize the answers if they have the test in advance. OR the teacher could just write a different test once in awhile to "catch" the cheaters, who are going to lose in the long run because they will lack the skills they need in college.
959 31 Aug 2006 - 17:12    Ellen Seiders : forward this link to every home school support group you know.
958 30 Aug 2006 - 1:27    Nicole Blosser : If people want to cheat they can always buy the curriculum online as well not just on Ebay. This rule really is ridiculous!
957 29 Aug 2006 - 20:57    David Oliver / eBay ID - plcc0 : This is just one more of eBay's outrageous policies. I am an eBay Powerseller. I have bought and sold over $50,000 in merchandise in the past 12 months and I must say I am OUTRAGED at this new policy. GET A GRIP EBAY !!! Concentrate your efforts on putting a stop to the scammers and fraud. If you continue this policy I CAN and WILL take my business elsewhere.
956 29 Aug 2006 - 18:45    Carol Palmer : Homeschooling parents are teachers too. I completely feel it is unfair for ebay to cancel auctions when there are people who have placed bids on the items they need for their school year. Thank you
955 29 Aug 2006 - 7:28    Diane Garrett : This is ridiculous. There is more than just ebay if a kid wants to go that far to cheat. They would find it one way or another. This is bad judgement on ebays part and will cause them to loose money in the long run.
954 29 Aug 2006 - 7:18    Deanna Garrett : This is the only way that I can afford to purchase my materials. I need the Teachers Manuals so that I can go along with my child. This is absurd. Children could buy them just as easily from catalogs as ebay, yet the catalogs do not discontinue teachers editions. This is why we parents monitor what our children do. If a child get ahold of the manual, then it is that parents fault. Do not punish all of us ebayers just for SOME children. I stand with this petition.
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