OT: Ebay pulled my homeschool curriculum auction..help

[donnajon]

My DS is a math teacher and although she doesn't use these, many high school teachers do. She got upset when she saw them for sale on ebay and I understand why. Kids cheat. And they have no way of knowing if you are home schooling or if you are a high school student looking for the answers to the tests. So, if you think of it that way, it is understandable to make sure these materials don't fall into the wrong hands.

 

[Belle5]

My DS is a math teacher and although she doesn't use these, many high school teachers do. She got upset when she saw them for sale on ebay and I understand why. Kids cheat. And they have no way of knowing if you are home schooling or if you are a high school student looking for the answers to the tests. So, if you think of it that way, it is understandable to make sure these materials don't fall into the wrong hands.

Any kid who wants to cheat can call Abeka or Bob Jones or whoever and purchase directly from them.(I guess the theory would be "Let the cheaters pay full price?") This arguement does not hold. The vast majority of folks buying homeschool materials on ebay are homeschoolers. Let's punish the whole lot of homeschool parents who already pay their school taxes and then have to purchase their own materials (usually raising kids on one income) and make sure they have to pay full price for everything--just so the two kids who figure out they can purchase the Abeka key cheaply won't cheat. Nice...

 

[snowy76]

IMO, I would look into reselling the TE on Amazon. I haven't found anything similar to ebay's policy on their website, and you don't pay for listings. HTH!

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

Try relising and not "selling" the Teachers Edition. Include it has a FREE BONUS.

That is not good advice. Adding a prohibited item as a free bonus is also an eBay listing violation. You can bet people are actively reporting auctions for teacher's editions, why risk losing your eBay account when you can sell these somewhere else?

There are been many discussions of this issue on the eBay boards; here is the biggest thread:

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=2000081947&tstart=0&mod=1154721521976

 

[disneychrista]

That is not good advice. Adding a prohibited item as a free bonus is also an eBay listing violation.

Just passing along information that has been used for many other auctions.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

It's still bad advice. You should not be telling someone to violate eBay listing policy. It doesn't matter that many sellers are violating policy by including a prohibited item as a bonus.