eBay Bans Spells, Potions, and Curses

[Cid Silverwing]

Thank fuck. I hate those scammers. How the hell do you pay someone online to cast a spell on you? Fucking bullshit, all of it.

 

[MetalMagpie]

Good. This will protect the stupid people from the unethical people.

Basically my thoughts. One of the clients I look after at work runs a Tarot Text service. Each month it sends an identical text message (containing that month's "prediction") out to everyone who's signed up, charging them each £3. It makes a disturbing amount of money.

Sadly, legislating against this sort of stuff (as much as I sometimes wish the government would) isn't really the answer. People are free to make bad decisions with their money if they want to. But it's nice to see ebay making use of their freedom to decide what can be sold using their platform.

Why isn't anyone in this thread commenting on the guy who appears to believe he is an actual wizard? I mean, it seems rather noteworthy to me...

Because this is the internet. There are quite a few of those guys around. Most of them are probably just trying to sell stuff.

 

[Something Amyss]

Spineless whores just trying to appease the Evangelicals.
A POX! A POX UPPON YOUR auction HOUSE!

That's a little dark, don't you think?

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

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YOU!

Yes you!

Stop with your long posts, I am trying to go to sleep!

Are you a forum moderator who is being inconvenienced because you have to screen my content? Or are you an addicted reader who can't stop reading what I write and needs to sleep?

Because you're giving me orders, and I dunno if you have authority or what.

So speak. Answer me.

And also I have shortened my posts a bit for your convenience, and begun to post videos instead of walls of text, for a few moments, anwyays.

No, it was just a joke. A forum moderator would make it clear who he/she was.

 

[GonzoGamer]

At least we still have Portobello Road.

 

[Major_Tom]

I wonder if those people who buy this stuff would want this really cool bridge I have, it's just sitting here collecting dust.

 

[FaceFaceFace]

Why isn't anyone in this thread commenting on the guy who appears to believe he is an actual wizard? I mean, it seems rather noteworthy to me...

Ask me to tell you sometime about how to not figure out why water moves when you point your finger at it when you are channeling xyzzy.

Ask me about not understanding anything about xyzzy, and overwriting the experience just to avoid having another break, just so you can function, ask me about getting comfortable living in the type of universe that Joe Mcmoneagle talks about. Ask me.

I dare

About half of this thread appears to be you writing completely incomprehensible madness. I like you. Keep it up.

 

[BoogieManFL]

Good. This will protect the stupid people from the unethical people.

Moralizer. Legislator. Government Nanny. Yes, I'm calling you names, because you're trying to decide for people what they can buy. You're trying to stop people from gambling, you want to close the casinos, and you're trying to make choices for other people to protect them. You're being paternalistic.

Nothing personal, just words.

Sadly, you're completely wrong and off the mark entirely.

People can gamble. There IS a chance to get something. Low, but possible. I wouldn't do it. There is a reason casinos make a ton of money. If you had a fair chance they wouldn't exist.

You're not going to buy something that will turn you into a werewolf. It's nothing more than fraud in my book. And some people are just too gullible/crazy/dumb to fall for the scumbags that prey on their foolishness. Even *IF* such a thing existed, selling it to whoever paid the money would be phenomenally irresponsible and just as bad or worse as selling hardcore drugs.


Using your logic, I could sell a box that I said has an expensive CPU in it, only to give you an empty box. That's essentially what it is. Saying it's something that it isn't. And after skimming your nonsensical posts, I'm ashamed I actually took the time to respond to you.

 

[theheroofaction]

Guess there's a big market for that stuff among those people who can't turn into anthropomorphic wolves at will.

Right, but how many people like that can there really be?

 

[BoogieManFL]

As much as I make fun of this stuff like everyone else, there's always a little part inside of me that wishes it was true.

"Just... what if.."

The world would be a horrible place if people could really have mystical powers. There are far too many people who'd abuse them and we'd all have known it existed for a long time.

 

[Grimh]

Curses!

I'm out for a spell and this happens!?
Where's my drink!?