The only teacher's editions are homeschool books. They can be purchased online, new. Kid's are not purchasing these - the parent's (who are their teachers) are. HS's are usually on a tight budget, so we all resell our materials to others and use that money to purchase others. You are hurting the kids and parents with this policy.
Under the ban it is noted that TE's are intended for teachers only. However, you are overlooking the fact that home school parents ARE TEACHERS! Also, eBay already prohibits anyone under the age of 18 to trade on the site. The majority of the materials covered under this ban would be for the instruction of school-aged children who would not be old enough to trade on eBay anyway. Where is the danger of a student using TE's to cheat if they are not even old enough to purchase them?
They can contace us via email to confirm regristration or problems with sales, why not just have us confirm on that too? This is just silly, how else would I have gotten my son through a yr of homeschooling without them?
Most of the curriculum sold on ebay is not the current textbooks used in public school, anyhow. Ebay will be losing buyers/sellers to yahoo auctions or others and students desiring to cheat will always find a way.
I can understand both sides. The homeschoolers do need supplies, but then again, I understand what ebay is saying. To be naive enough to think that there aren't kids out there that will use this to cheat is ridiculous.
At least be up front. Tell us you don't care about we the consumer, and you've caved to pressure from greedy publishers. Homeschoolers will now create a swap board, and we'll sell the teacher's editions, as well as all other books our children may want to read on it.
This policy is unfair to legitimate educators which greatly outnumber any minority of those who use eBay to cheat. This policy is also clearly unrealistic both in its effort to eliminate cheating and in its enforceability.
This is prejudicial to homeschoolers who rely on this outlet to buy new curriculum, difficult to enforce and it is the parent's job to determine if their children are cheating.
Besides, we will just take our business elsewhere. Ebay is not the only auction site.
This policy is particularly offensive to homeschooling families. Will ebay also stop the sale of other items that may be misused? I know one lady who uses an ebay toaster oven to dry her socks and could possibly burn down her house. Maybe eBay should ban those sales.
