Due to your decision to change your policy regarding firearms parts I will be canceling my account. Your decision to knuckle under to the rest of your "other Global Partners" has shown me that Ebay cannot be trusted to defend the rights of those who reside in the United States. The right to keep and bear arms is held sacred by millions of Americans and your policy decisions have put us in position close akin to that of being criminals. I am sure that there will be many others like myself who will be as repulsed as I am by your policy changes and will follow my lead to remove myself from the Ebay dictatorship. What your doing will I am sure cost you dearly monetarily and you deserve to lose every cent.
this was a note I sent to Ebay a day or two ago. Here was their response to me and then my response to them.
> Dear Noel,
>
> Thank you for writing in regard to eBay's newly revised Firearms
> policy.
> After the tragedy at Virginia Tech, eBay�s Trust & Safety team
> along
> with executives at the company felt it was important to re-
> examine our
> existing policy and evaluate if it still met the needs of our
> marketplace and our company. At eBay we constantly review and
> update
> our policies and, after careful consideration, we determined
> that this
> policy change was in the best interest of our marketplace and
> our
> company.
>
> While eBay hasn�t allowed the sale of any item regulated by
> individual
> states or the federal government in the past, there are still a
> large
> number of firearm-related parts that are legal and are widely
> available
> in retail stores. These items have also historically been
> allowed on
> eBay.
>
> Now, we are extending our policy to prohibit the sale of any
> item that
> is required for the firing of a gun. These items include bullet
> tips,
> brass casings, shells, barrels, slides cylinders, magazines,
> etc. We
> have made the decision to exceed the requirements of federal and
> state
> regulations for safety and to bring our policies in the US and
> Canada in
> closer alignment with our policies in other markets around the globe.
>
> I understand your frustration regarding this matter Noel and
> apologize
> for the inconvenience it caused you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Heidi
> eBay Customer Support
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
Heidi
the only thing you have told me is nothing but a reiteration of your companies policy. It amazes me that your company will ban gun parts but will allow tobacco sales, violent video games and many other items that are as potentially dangerous as your company seems to think theses legal gun parts are.
Basically Ebay's owner has for whatever reason has made the decision to soothe your companies other foreign partners desires and forsake it's American customers. you have a right to do so and I and many many other American gun owners have the right to boycott Ebay and voice our disgust at Ebay's misguided policy decisions. I'm sure that your president won't care one bit about the loss of our business but to be honest after his dictatorial Mandate, neither will we.