@*tippy*toes* wrote:
@zanadoo_56 wrote:I freely admit I have no idea what large newtonian balls are in the first place so I did a search.
I'm none the wiser but was impressed with the Bali decorator balls that came up plus other home decorating items. Re the dildos however.....I had a good laugh. I presume that's what the OP was annoyed about.
I too had no idea, but was curious, so searched for that term. Got 0 results. Even when I changed the search to worldwide, got 0 results. I removed the word large, and still got zero. Results with less words were mainly parts for telescopes, or telescopes themselves. I can see how an 8yo would be traumatised near to death by those. At 8yo, I would have been too, because I would have WANTED THAT BLASTED TELESCOPE! I would have been traumatised because my mother wouldn't have bought it for me. Dagnabbit!
I understand perfectly - I really wanted a telescope when I was a kid too. 
@brimarsk wrote:Is it acceptable that I should have to tend to my 8 year-old child's shock, and possible seek physhological counselling, when I search Ebay using an utterly innocent and highly appropriate search term such as 'large newtonian balls'?
That was YOUR choice and if you had searched for newtonian balls you would not have been shown the other items as the large newtonian balls returned a zero number of results so maybe improve your search parameters to things that are more appropriate.
Should Ebay have the right to expose such graphics and imagery to my child? Go ahead! Search the clearly ligitimate term 'large newtonian balls', but DO NOT have your children nearby!!!
They have every right to show items that can be shown to people aged 18 and over.
I mean, should Ebay NOT have a category that requests sellers to mark their product as SENSITIVE, so as to WARN parents,
They DID as that's how it was set up in the US as Aus didn't have an adult category.
They found out that it didn't work as ADULTS would click past the warning screens and then complain that they shouldn't be able to and when told they had to be over 18 to use eBay they complained that lots of people that use eBay aren't over 18 and they wanted it fixed.
eBay's simple reply was that if there were things on the site that upset them then they should just close their accounts.
who have their children sitting with them, while searching for products for them! When you do the search:\
large newtonian balls
Don't have children look on a site where you have to be 18 to be a member.
make sure you scroll down and have a good look at all the adult parapernalia, and even dare to click the links to find out what OTHER products your children will potentially be seeing!
So you got ZERO results but then YOU choose to look further to see what else was there and therefore it was YOUR choice to show your CHILD the rest.
EBAY = this is NOT ON! FIX IT! FAST.
If you are not happy then just close your account.
@imastawka wrote:
Tabitha is on the shopping go round and she sees something that is disgusting and racist and she speaks to her partner Jake about it. Jake said to forget it and just move on.
Pratibha is on the same street and comes past that shop. She sees the same thing and is alarmed! She speaks to her boyfriend Lars about it. Lars says .... "Hey, that's totally uncool. I'm going to do something about this and this joint needs a wake up."
After a while when more of the Pratibha and Lars types take action, the shop is forced to lift their game.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King achieved amazing things when people spoke out and did something. That should never be forgotten.
BTW: If anything can be done to protect kids from adult sexual content or whatever then why not do it. In the bigger picture there's more to gain than lose.
