There are thousands of homeschoolers with a legitimate need for teacher's editions of textbooks. It is absurd for ebay to deny sale of these necessary items because some students may be trying to cheat (I don't feel it is a responsibility of ebay to keep students from cheating, anyway.)
Free enterprise is essential for commerce and to meet the needs of the people who engage in it. As a homeschooler I expect to be able to get a full set of materials that I need to teach with.
If public schools have such problems with cheating, they need to fix their own problems! Homeschoolers NEED to be able to buy & sell teacher's manuals. We may be cheating "the system," but we're not cheating our kids!
I find it abhorrent that your company would discriminate against legitimate homeschoolers and teachers by disallowing auctions for Teacher Edition materials. Your company is starting to step into violations of the Bill of Rights by doing this.
because textbooks and teacher editions are NOT ILLEGAL! Most mathematic textbooks [student] have every other answer in the back -- excuse me -- shall we now ban the text book publishers themselves for providing material for students to cheat with??? Nor is it illegal for ANYONE WITH A CREDIT CARD to buy text books or teacher editions from the actual PUBLISHERS! Nor do the Publishers screen such. Parents that so choose to do so can LEGALLY homeschool their children. Any teacher [public school] who loses her teacher's edition should also be permited to buy TE's anywhere they wish. THIS IS AN EFFORT BY THE PUBLISHERS TO FORCE EVERYONE TO BUY FROM THEM! It is not an effort to stop cheaters. It is about MONEY. If anyone who buys on ebay HAS TO BE 18 to buy/sell something, then ebay is either admitting that that is not the case -- in which case they are in serious legal trouble in regards to 'children' buying all sorts of items on their site. And they admit such.
Resale of these books is legal. Buying these books new from the publishers is legal. Home schoolers will simply find another venue to conduct business. Ebay will lose.
If you do not want to sell Teacher Editions because the wrong person (student) may use it, then what else are you going to eliminate? You can't limit what is sold based on who may use it. So many things could be misused.
This is a restriction on rights of homeschoolers and other private school educators to obtain and exchange materials at a reasonable price. These materials are used for legitimate reasons and are not used to cheat in anyway. Please remove this policy.
I support this petition, as a buyer and seller on ebay, as this limits my ability as a home schooler to obtain used curriculum. It is my understanding that ebay sells other items which would be considered more dangerous to under age buyers, such as diet pills, knives, etc. I see in no way how teacher's editions would be in the same category as these items.
I had 10 items I had listed on Ebay pulled today. These were 1st, 2nd, and 3rd TE Readers with teacher's instructions in them! Ebay needs to use a little common sense-these aren't A.S.T. answers!
I support this petition. Teachers should be applauded for their committment and effort to better the generations coming up. Please do not penalize them by eliminating their buying and selling from ebay.
As a homeschooler, we currently look online to buy things at a lower price and to sell all the products we don't need anymore (mainly since our children have advanced and gone to other things), hence eBay MAKES money. Because the teacher's editions are not available now on eBay, we are forced to pay full price for the needed cirriculum from the original companies, hence eBay LOSES money!! Get the picture?
because as a homeschooler, I receive no discounts or financial aid to offset the cost of homeschooling and the financial loss of living on one income. I rely on ebay for selling my old text books and buying new ones. Please reconsider this terrible new policy or I will be forced to look at alternative auction sites.
, because you are not removing TRULY prohibitive items (like burned CDs--which I and many others got scammed on from ebay--even after the seller was reported)--but now you are harrassing legitimate ebayers with legitimate items.
