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Dear ciphoenix,
You recently listed the following eBay Stores listing:
160098986876 - KICK ASS 200mw 532nm Hi-Power Green LASER Pointers
The eBay Stores listing was removed because it
violated the eBay Hazardous Items policy. All fees
related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified
members who placed bids on the item that the listing has been canceled.
The sale and transportation of hazardous materials, including explosive and
radioactive materials, toxic substances, and so forth, is heavily regulated by
federal and state law. For this reason, listings for these items on eBay are
severely restricted.
For more information on the eBay Hazardous Items policy, please visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/hazardous-materials.html
Please note: violation of this or other eBay policies may result in forfeit of
eBay fees on cancelled listings, limits on account privileges and account
suspension.
To review eBay's list of Prohibited, Questionable, and Infringing items, please
visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/item_allowed.html
For more information on why eBay may remove a eBay Stores listing, please visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/tp/listing-ended.html
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
eBay Trust & Safety
MY RESPONSE
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Message: I bought this item on eBay - all I did was represent it honestly.
Nothing in your
literature mentions LASER pointers,
and in fact, ebay
has a separate category for them.
I fail to see why MINE was singled out from among the hundreds of listings of
WAY more powerful "discotheque" units - and as for "dangerous"; so is a silver
teaspoon if not used the way it was intended.
eBay's RESPONSE:
In a message dated 4/4/2007 3:11:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
rswebhelp@ebay.com writes:
Dear David,
Thank you for writing eBay in regard to the removal of your LASER pointer.
Listings for LASERS with an
output of more than 5mW
are generally not permitted on eBay.
This includes LASER pointers, medical LASERS, industrial LASERS, and so forth.
The only exceptions to this policy are
club/disco/"rave" types of
LASERS, which
*can* be listed on eBay even if their output is greater than 5mW.
As your handheld LASER pointer is 200mW, we've removed the listing and have
credited your listing fees back to your account. I have to ask that you do not
relist this auction.
For more information on the eBay Hazardous Materials policy, please go to:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/hazardous-materials.html
We thank you in advance for your cooperation, and wish you luck with your future
eBay transactions.
Sincerely,
Nash
eBay Customer Support
MY RESPONSE
Well, if this is the case then, you are going to have to start removing about
two or three hundred listings for LASERS besides mine. I bought the LASER in
question on ebay. I have other avenues to market LASERS besides eBay in order to
compare it to another LASER of similar output a friend of mine ALSO bought on
ebay. These items can be purchased at any store that sells telescopes, and they
are NOT "hazardous" - no more "hazardous" than a kitchen knife -
if you stab yourself with
a knife, is it the knife's fault?
So you should also remove knives and office staplers, power tools, and
everything else that's "dangerous" from your site - especially radial arm saws.
Firearms are ILLEGAL to send through the mail ONLY because the government is
violating the 2nd Amendment. Bans for volatile chemicals, gases, and things that
can blow up, are reasonable - but
what you are banning is an
amplified FLASHLIGHT.
Applying this "policy" and carrying it to its logical conclusion,
you will be left with bed
sheets, Teddy bears and Barbie dolls.
The "disco"
LASERS you
speak of (above)
are the things that are inherently "dangerous" - because they are designed to be
used in an environment where the
beams are directed
more-or-less at random in a crowd of people
by those
who are in no condition to handle the devices. In addition,
a 400mw LASER sweeping
across the line of vision and even momentarily shining directly into your eye
will cause irreparable damage.
The "astronomy" LASERS on the other hand, are
used by responsible people to aim telescopes.
The ones like I had listed are designed to be mounted in a "sight clamp" (that
is why there is no pocket clip on it). The beam divergence is designed so that
the beam spreads just enough to be visible to the naked eye of the user as it is
pointed at the sky.
The divergence of the beam
at just 4 feet distant from the aperture renders it harmless to humans
(although it would be
unpleasant and disorienting, it would probably not irreparably damage the eye.
I am an IBM-certified LASER operator who worked with LASERS ever since they were
invented. I worked
with LASERS in IBM LASER printers
with outputs up to
600mw, and beams
whose divergence was so small that the spot was only 12" in diameter when the
LASER was pointed at the MOON - so I know from whence I speak...
But let me let you go, since you have a lot of listings to delete.
People are going to be PISSED. Se La Vie'
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