eBay Bans Sale of Magic Items…and Psychics Unite in Protest
- Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:29pm by
Liz Klimas
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If you are in the market to purchase of spells, potions, curses or other magical services through eBay, you have until the end of the month to partake. The site, which also owns PayPal, has banned them and other advice services starting Sept. 1.
According to its 2012 Fall Seller Update the following have been added to the list of prohibited items to sell:
[...] advice; spells; curses; hexing; conjuring; magic; prayers; blessing services; magic potions; healing sessions; work from home businesses & information; wholesale lists, and drop shop lists.
ABC News has more from eBay about why it made this change:
Perhaps it’s the intangibility of hexes and curses that makes them tough to host. “EBay regularly reviews categories and updates our policies based on customer feedback,” a statement from the company read. “We are discontinuing a small number of categories within the larger metaphysical subcategory, as buyers and sellers have told us that transactions in these categories often result in issues that can be difficult to resolve.”
ABC also notes some eBay users are not pleased, considering some other religious items may still be sold. Here‘s what one person said on eBay’s forum according to ABC:
“Ebay bans alternative religious items. But! Not for Christians. Holy water and other sundry ‘holy’ items are discriminately allowed. … Hm. Let me get this straight. Some guy in Rome wearing long robes can wave his hand over some water and imbue it with something, and then it’s very ‘powerful?’ How is that different from any other magical item previously sold on ebay?…”
To combat this ban of magical services, ABC notes that psychics have started a petition calling on supporters to contact eBay and voice their discontent:
There are so many people that work so hard to do this everyday, and countless more people who depend on our services! For the few bad apples and problems ebay may have…. is a thousands even millions more successful and happy clients every day!
So far, the petition has more than 900 signatures.
(H/T: io9)
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Comments (81)
RightThinking1
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:41pmWait…, no more pyramids?
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 10:14pmInstead of complaining, why don’t those 900 people get together and start a site exclusively dedicated to such items?
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 10:26pmRight—
Well, if the Muslim Brotherhood find themselves low on cash…
Report Post »TX_Ag_Engineer
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 10:08amToo easy… “They should have seen this coming!”
Report Post »crisnick
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 2:17pmKomponist, you’ve got the right idea, they can sell it themselves. Anyway, 900 signatures? Weak!
Report Post »hi
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:25pmI don’t get eBay bc I do t trust anyone. Do you really hand
Report Post »Over money then hope they send it, or is there some protection?
Verceofreason
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:52pmPlenty of protection.
Report Post »Dancing_In_The_Ruins
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:02pmSome protections, since E-bay owns Paypal they will refund bad transactions and they do work to get bad sellers off the site. I’ve been doing e-bay for well over ten years, probably since they started up and have only had a couple bad people. Remember people are generally good
Report Post »greatgrandma
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 7:54amI agree on protection being good. I hadn’t bought anything on ebay in over two years. Then one day recently I got a bill from my paypal acct. for over $1400.00. With in a month or less,it was all checked out and corrected by paypal. I promptly closed my credit card I used for paypal. From now on I will use a prepaid credit card.
Report Post »crisnick
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 2:20pmI was just refunded by eBay/Paypal over an item that was never sent to me and the seller never returned my e-mails to tell me what was going on. What they have seems to work. There are some items I wouldn’t buy, like cellphones, because of the potential that I might be buying stolen property.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:09pmEbay is a business and even though it is traded on the stock market it is still a private entity, therefore they can sell or not sell anything they want. Petitions are great for Govrnment, but, being a private firm this should be taken up with the stock holders. One more important fact I will point out is, if the psychics really are psychic shouldn’t they have known before the announcement this was going to happen? Hmm….just asking (rather pointing out).
Report Post »Old_Warrior
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:06pmTypical. Prayers and Blessings lumped together with hexes and curses. The fact that they don’t understand the differences, that Prayer and Blessings aren‘t ’magical’ in any sense of the word, proves their lack of intelligence… and lack of salvation. I weep for the lost.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:51pmI don’t mind them selling “ghost and chains” stuff.
I don’t like the Obama voodoo “hope and chains” stuff though.
Report Post »LONGHOTSUMMER
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 12:53amI wish Gacy would’ve chained obozo to his makeshift plywood pillory. They both coulda had a good time..
Report Post »TucsonDude
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:44pmThis stinks. I guess I’ll have to go to WalMart when I want to buy a pair a normal socks. Okay, folks, that even made me cringe. So, that’s a rap. Sorry, I couldn’t resist the low hanging fruit.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:50pmMormon joke?
Report Post »Otherwise I have no idea.
TucsonDude
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:34pmI guess that their clients are going to have to settle for an out-of-e-bay experience.
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:27pmLOL! Phunny!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:31pmObviously, too many ‘obama voodoo dolls’ were being sold – obama must be in a total panic.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:26pmWhen I first read the headline I thought they meant Magic Johnson stuff.
This is what happens when you watch too much MSNBC.
Report Post »resme
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:57pmNOOO MONK!!!! Stop watching msnbc.. If I’m feeling frisky, I just turn on the rachel maddow. Alot faster then a cold shower that’s for sure.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:22pmDoes this include the magic beans Glenn Beck sells?
Report Post »702TruthSeeker
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:04pmlucky for you, they haven’t banned these:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Trolls-/18818/i.html?_sop=1&_nkw=troll
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:16pmSo is my moonshine at risk?People claim to see many sprits after drinking it..
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:15pmno more advice ??????
where will biden get his next speech from ?
Report Post »TucsonDude
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:09pmI guess you could say that the magic is gone.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:09pmCurses are banned huh. Does that mean that the government should no longer sell us healthcare?
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:54pmSorcery and witchcraft, another END TIME sign!
Report Post »Keep ‘em coming people, fulfill the prophecy so
all of this pain and heartache can come to an end!
TucsonDude
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:52pmSeems a bit excessive. It would be nice if they could negotiate and reach a happy medium.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:29pm@TucsonDude
Now that’s funny. : )
Report Post »BHOHG2G
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:50pmDo Genies in Lamps count?
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:54pmNo. And they can’t spell either.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:48pmFamiliar spirits is not a good thing because they attempt to break in on you, and the result can only be gaining a hard heart or even spiritual death to the existence of God. Even God refrains from breaking out on people.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:33pm@watersRpeople
How’s it going Timmy? Did you enjoy your last trip?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:55pmA spirit starts to get too jealous if you hang out with other spirits and then they start nagging you. That’s why II only invite STRANGE spirits, Tim.
Report Post »TucsonDude
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:47pmPsychics, huh? Well then, they should have seen this coming a long time ago. I would have been more impressed if they had united one month ago and started a one-month protest countdown.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:55pmYes ..they should have seen this coming ;-)
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:35pmMaybe they did, but were in denial. Or a signal to noise ratio was not in their favor. Each event creates a ripple in the continuum and there is thusly a lot of interference. The signal is perceived on subconscious level, but the ID language is different than our conscious constructs. It takes what it thinks the signal is and uses a symbolic form of communication. Given the noise attached, it may come off a tad cryptic.
So, the actual symbolic rendering may have been like so:
The PEZ dispenser is suddenly empty.
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:47pmEither marketing ploy, or genius.
If they change the rules, then psychics can tout that they knew it all along that their efforts would work…because they are psychic.
If it changes nothing, it shows a lot of fraud out there, and all those on the eBay site were scammers.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:43pmThere’s more spiritual truth in watching Sponge Bob cartoons, than there is with familiar spirits.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:36pmHi Timmy,
So, you watch a lot of Sponge Bob cartoons? That explains a lot. How was that last trip?
Far out, man!
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:41pmThey should have seen this coming.
Report Post »Pastor Melissa
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:49pmIf this was Facebook I would ‘like’ this post.
Report Post »TucsonDude
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:56pmSorry, wordweaver. Your post was not showing when I submitted my original post. So, I tried to make up for my repetition by quickly submitting another, and hopefully lamer, comment.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 9:53amSaw the headline and came to post the same thought. Often wonder why psychic fairs and conventions have to advertisers for the same reason.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:40pmSounds to me like Ebay’s founders want to be far disconnected from [Familiar Spirits]. I can’t say I blame them.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:43pm@watersRpeople
Hi Timmy,
What about the unfamiliar spirits? What happens to them?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:38pmThe cost of THAT voodoo doll just went thru the roof.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:35pmebay had to stop the sale of magic items,because the democrats have bought all of them in the hopes the can continue their smoke and mirrors act.and to help billions of more dollars jusst up and disappear and to help obama win reelection by putting spells on all of the voters. the have spells on about half of America, but now they need everyone under their spell then they can magically change America into a communist state right before our eyes.
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