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e-Bay prohibits textbooks for homeschool teachers
World Net Daily ^
| 8/27/2006
| texpat72
Posted on 08/27/2006 10:10:16 AM PDT by texpat72
A new policy by Internet trading behemoth eBay that bans homeschool teachers' texts from its auctions is prompting a tirade of complaints from the company's faithful customers.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51702
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebay; education; homeschool; homeschooling; textbooks
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:10:17 AM PDT
by
texpat72
To: texpat72
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:14:52 AM PDT
by
texpat72
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To: texpat72
Why would homeschooling parents want public school teacher editions of textbooks?
Am I missing something here?
To: texpat72
To quote Sec. Rumsfeld....."Oh my goodness"
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:16:27 AM PDT
by
stm
(Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
To: texpat72
Well, it is certainly not illegal to resell teachers editions. ebay is just being stupid.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:18:16 AM PDT
by
ozoneliar
("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
To: SoftballMominVA
I think it is this:
The company continued that those products often contain "special answer keys, exams, teaching tips, and guides."
Kids can buy the books and use them to cheat on their homework.
They are saying homeschooling "versions" are also under the same heading. It might be to make sure they are using the same rules for everyone.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:18:58 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death)
To: SoftballMominVA
I'm thinking they are not letting Homeschoolers list thier books on eBay. From what I understand, they (the home schooling kits) can be pretty pricey.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:19:39 AM PDT
by
SAMS
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eBay is about as leftist as they get and leftists are horrified of the prospect of their indoctrination centers losing power.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:19:58 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: texpat72
eBay, Amazon, Google, AOL...all liberal companies who hate guns and I guess now homeschoolers.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:20:18 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: CodeToad
actually ebay, in its early days, was open to letting ANYTHING be traded. I bought an uzi on ebay (in-state sale, picked up in person) in '98.
A lot of ebay's actions (not including this one), such as banning firearms, was from both a liability perspective AND a market perception issue since they are publicly traded.
To: freedumb2003
I get it, so no one wants my old teachers editions from my class, Ebay is saying that the home-schooled people can't resell their editions, which then goes to all teachers editions.
Got it. Seems to me that if you paid for it, you own it and have the right to resell the item (not make copies and sell those, of course), but the original item.
To: CodeToad
Headline and article are a bit misleading - it wasn't some nefarious plan directed specifically against homeschoolers - I suspect it didn't even occur to them they'd be affected.
It's a ban on all teacher's editions to keep kids from buying them and cheating in regular schools.
To: SoftballMominVA
Got it. Seems to me that if you paid for it, you own it and have the right to resell the item (not make copies and sell those, of course), but the original item. I agree. But eBay has the right to sell or not sell anything it wants. They have been burned and are very much on the conservative side.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:24:28 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death)
To: mcvey
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:25:33 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: SoftballMominVA
Teacher's Editions comes in homeschooling sets too.
Excuse me, how many children go on ebay, buy and pay for an item, receive it and use it on the sly and their homeschooling parents never notice???
Pluh LEEEZE.
It isn't their place to police who buys books and for what reason anyway.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:26:26 AM PDT
by
Shimmer128
(Kûlia i ka nu`u.)
To: Strategerist
The homeschoolers who depend on eBay sales will be greatly affected.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:26:28 AM PDT
by
texpat72
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To: freedumb2003
Kids can buy the books and use them to cheat on their homework.
That's ridiculous! Since when is Ebay at all an arbiter of morality?
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:30:04 AM PDT
by
Zechariah_8_13
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
To: Strategerist
The article also points out that there are other sites that auction teacher's editions, and at least one of them requires purchasers to be over 18 (I don't know how they enforce it).
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:30:51 AM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(Creating the <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov">straddle</a> Google bomb one post at a time.)
To: Zechariah_8_13
That's ridiculous! Since when is Ebay at all an arbiter of morality? They must see it as a legal exposure. You know eBay is a company and not the government, right? Thet can arbite whatever the heck they want.
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posted on
08/27/2006 10:33:42 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death)
To: texpat72
Amazon has teacher's editions for sale on just about any subject you could want.
Odd that Ebay thinks that the publishers could only come after them and leave Amazon alone.
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