http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/ We would like you to revisit your policies about allowing photos depicting minor children - specifically child actor/models - to be sold on eBay in private auctions. The "owner" of one highly trafficed account TVTEENS - is currently in prison for child molestation. He is likely the photographer for many of these photos, although that does not give him legal rights for these sales. His "former?" business partner allegedly has account TEENSTARS -which was very active until apparently he was identified as a manger/publicist in Los Angeles. In most cases, these photos sell for large amounts of money (many in the $200 - $300 range) not because of the celebrity of the child, but because of the pedophile and boy lover interest. The sales price is in direct correlation to the state of undress. A large majority of these photos depict boys shirtless and in poses specifically of interest to pedophiles. This is monetary and image exploitation of these individuals, while the sellers hide their identities. Falsifying seller information is also a violation of eBay policies. The undersigned, which includes families in the entertainment industry who are interested in their children's internet safety, ask that you investigate these particular sellers for compliance with your own requirements, (TVTEENS and TEENSTARS) and change your policies to either not allow these sales, or to at least not allow them to be sold in private auctions. Attached is one recent example of a current auction. This is one of approximately 10 - 20 that are sold each week. Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:1:48 CDT en-us 3 http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig5026885 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig4717945 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig4232673 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3904994 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3876861 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Very Disturbing!! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3843362 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3722009 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST that's just sick man http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3708770 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3629307 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST thanks for doing this. i wrote to craig at craigslist to try and clean that site up a little. we must work hard to keep goodness powering the internet and modern world! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3577591 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST This practice is aiding and abetting at the very least. EBay needs to set an ethical example, or be made an example in a court of law. Private anything usually shows that there are things to hide. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3527344 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST THATS IS JUST COMPLETELY SICK THAT ANYONE WOULD DO THAT! THIS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO A COURT OF LAW CONSIDERING ITS ILLEGAL! I COULD NOT THINK OF ANYTHING MORE SICKENING THAN THIS! I URGE THIS TO BECOME MORE PUBLIC! SO EVERYONE CAN KNOW OF THESE THINGS THAT GO ON http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3470575 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST This petition is stupid, and so are you. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3154706 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST That's just fucking sick. I can't beleive those petifiles http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3098942 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig3055802 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig2996896 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST yaw http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig2954439 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Well done to whoever started this petition because Ebay can't let people get away with selling things like that. This world is so perverted now that nowhere is safe and it is about time somebody stamps down on sick child porn pics. I thought Ebay had policies like that, but obviously they are making money by paedophiles visiting to buy those pics. Good thinking from whoever did this petition,at least I will be alert of all this and hopefully Ebay will take action. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig2951366 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST FUCKING STUPID petition. NO reason for it. Just plain photo's FFS. Get a life idiots... http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig2908579 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Well... Child porn is disgusting and I wish that there was no such thing as it, but let's face it-eBay is a huge site and often the items for sale could have code names or something like that to prevent people catching on to what they are actually selling. They would never manage to get rid of all of it. Oh, by the way, I don't consider that picture you have shown us to be porn... But I guess that if you did, this petition would be shut down. So, I think that the moral basis of this is sound. But is it practical? That is the question. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ebayphotos/#sig2902743 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I find the petition ludicrous and stupid, but the only way to state my opinion was to sign it. Geez... the paranoia is making some morons' brains to run wild, indeed.