This policy is very silly! If that was enacted in all the sites from all over the world that sell teacher edition material had to stop well it would put alot of people out of business.
It would be very easy to stop the sale of Teacher's Editions from those handful of publishers who require academic credentials, while leaving materials from homeschooling publishers alone.
I have bought several homeschooling curriculum items for my family on eBay, including teacher editions. It has been a valuable resource in saving our family money. I also would like to be able to re-sell my curriculum on eBay, including teacher editions. Please revise your policy to allow the sale of such materials again!
Parents of homeschooled children shouldn't be cut off from affordable education resources just because of a small number of cheaters - find another way to solve the problem!
I'm sure there are other ways of monitoring who is buying teacher editions. How many middle or high school students have an acceptable form of payment and an ebay ID?
I am a mom that needs to buy school materials for my pre schooler and ebay is where i have been looking this is not right. Parents should be monitering their kids on ebay n-e ways, there are alot cheaper ways to cheat, if they really wanted to.
Dear Ebay
If students wanted to cheated that bad, they could just as well by directly from the publisher. This action in clearly a bias against home educators that should be discontinuted. Since your goal is to make money allowing the proper sale of these educational materials including the teacher's editions will simply increase your revenues as the home education movement continues to grow.
eBay is discriminating against education and home educators, in particular. They have no problem selling porn to minors, music with explicit lyrics and mature-rated video games to underaged children, but a family trying to enlighten their children with knowledge in books....forget it. I am very angry that eBay has made, yet another, family unfriendly decision.
Please do not try to have a say as to what happens to the items sold on your site. Do you follow every item after it's sold to see if it's used in a moral, legal or appropriate manner? Your venue is one of providing a resource for buying and selling, not policing those that buy or sell there. As a home school parent that also utilizes eBay extensively, I cannot support your ban on teache editions being sold on your site, which clearly has no foundation in legal, moral or even principaled business practices.
I needed to buy some materials this year that i wanted to learn with my guitar but decided not to because i needed to be fully able to understand with a teachers edition.sorry. you lost my business.
Ebay, please revoke this! i depend so much on being able to buy affordable things for my homeschooling needs through ebay.you have lost my business because of this.i will not even look at ebay until this crazy rule is done away with since it is a waste of my time to buy materials i can not get a teachers manual with. Leslie Raezer
most TE books are for grades under 8-9. I dont think there is much of a concern for cheating because at that age they do not have the means to buy or conceal the pack from coming in the mail.
Please change this policy - it is unfair - Most of the teacher materials sold on ebay are also sold on other web sites (Abeka.com) and they have no way of telling if it is the teacher or student. They continue to sell the materials.
I urge homeschoolers to boycott ebay entirely unless this discriminatory, pompous, punitive policy is removed. The education in schools must be pretty thin if they think it would be threatened by a student seeing a teachers guide. If someone out there has an alternative forum for reselling educational materials, now is the time to advertise it.
Why not ban the pornography too, since you aren't sure if a minor is ordering that?
You could do an adult verification for listing and/or buying the teacher's manuals,too.
