Please help our families do what we feel is best for our own individual children and do it at the lowest cost possible. That is what eBay is all about.
This is pure censorship. Stopping the sale of Teacher Edition Manuals will no sooner stop a cheater from buying test answers than stopping the sale of handguns will prevent murders from being committed with handguns! There are hundreds (if not thousands) of honest private school as well as homeschool teachers who are searching and selling on e-Bay for Teachers Edition materials and other curriculum and now you just lost some ever-growing revenue on a commodity that is sure to increase.
If children are not allowed accounts, then why must you enforce something that does cause grief to those who are legally allowed accounts? We can take our business elsewhere, but does that help you?
Several of my auctions have been cancelled by eBay, due to the inclusion of TE's. eBay did not give any type of warning to sellers about the policy change, but rather hit them with it at the busiest time of year.
I do not find ebay's excuse feasible. to purchase from ebay you need a credit card. children under 18 should not have one and if ebay argues that they use their parents without permission, the parents will find out when the statement comes in the mail thus thwarting the childs efforts to cheat. do children really go through all this trouble to avoid studying - sadly probably, the parents need to be more disciplinary.
I believe that it is the parents' responsibility to police what their children buy, not Ebay! I should be able to buy a teacher's edition to use to educate my children if I wish, especially if it is in with a package including the manual and the children's curriculum.
