eBay Needs Age Verification

[buckshot_12]

eBay blanket ban of knife sales to Queensland is bull!

We live a long distance from town and rely heavily on Australia Post for delivery of our goods. Does eBay expect all people in  rural areas to drive 100's of kilometres every time a bladed tool breaks?

my last gasket scraper blade broke. Pack the ute, we've got a 150km round trip to buy a new one.

Wake up eBay

[sandypebbles]

No use posting your abuse to other members which eBay are not going to read

And if they did read here, your abusive reaction certainly would not change a thing

Any reason why you *must* buy these things off eBay sellers?

Or why you would even try in the first place knowing of the ban

eBay is not the only option for online shopping

Or when not add to the pages long thread already here from people losing it over the same thing? 

Take it up with your local members/law makers etc etc 

[shoppingbag*]

It's not eBay's fault, they are only obeying the law.  Blame the politicians.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@buckshot_12 wrote:

eBay blanket ban of knife sales to Queensland is bull!

We live a long distance from town and rely heavily on Australia Post for delivery of our goods. Does eBay expect all people in  rural areas to drive 100's of kilometres every time a bladed tool breaks?

my last gasket scraper blade broke. Pack the ute, we've got a 150km round trip to buy a new one.

Wake up eBay

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eBay have no service obligations in Australia.  You might just as easily blame the coffee distributors in Brisbane . . . they too will not sell you gasket scraper bladed instruments.

You would be better placed trying to source your gasket scraper blade from an auto parts store that has an online platform.  Either that, or, getting someone you know in the city to buy one in-store for you and post it to you.

If nobody in Qld sells gasket scraper blades online anymore, then your anger at eBay is misplaced.  Contact the new LNP Government, they promised to fix just about everything that is wrong in Qld.

[buckshot_12]

So what you're saying is DON'T use eBay?

We were using eBay as most of the vendors use Australia Post. Fair enough, we'll purchase our goods elsewhere!

As far as abuse goes, you drive 150kms every time you need a bladed tool and see how YOU feel. 

I accept to need for knife reform, but not the dim witted implementation of legislation by retailer's.

[buckshot_12]

You're looking at it wrong.

eBay could easily add age verification. There are many ways to do this, Australia Post ID, MyGov, QLD digital licence etc.

Once age is verified, the vendor has complied with legalisation and goods can be purchased.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@buckshot_12 wrote:

So what you're saying is DON'T use eBay?

We were using eBay as most of the vendors use Australia Post. Fair enough, we'll purchase our goods elsewhere!

As far as abuse goes, you drive 150kms every time you need a bladed tool and see how YOU feel. 

I accept to need for knife reform, but not the dim witted implementation of legislation by retailer's.

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still no reason to blame eBay for following the law of the land, or retailers for abiding by legislation.

As for driving 150km each time you need a bladed tool, how about buying the gasket scraper blades in bulk next time you drive the 150kms?  That would bring down the costs a bit.  While you are there, you should buy all manner of knives and blades you might need.  That's how you get around online retailers/platforms not having age verification in place.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@buckshot_12 wrote:

You're looking at it wrong.

eBay could easily add age verification. There are many ways to do this, Australia Post ID, MyGov, QLD digital licence etc.

Once age is verified, the vendor has complied with legalisation and goods can be purchased.

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these days, people are hesitant to provide the ID you propose due to high profile data breaches such as Optus and Medibank.

Many people had to get their Driver Licences reissued after data breaches.

When Managed Payments came in for sellers, there were all manner of complaints about having to provide copies of photo IDs and Bank Account information.

The other thing about eBay, is that adults let their kids use their account.  Age verification wouldn't work.

[mdgli]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

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these days, people are hesitant to provide the ID you propose due to high profile data breaches such as Optus and Medibank.

Many people had to get their Driver Licences reissued after data breaches.

eBay doesn't need to store the verification just to tick a box "Verified"

The other thing about eBay, is that adults let their kids use their account.  Age verification wouldn't work.

Adults buy alcohol for their under aged kids. 🙄

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[shoppingbag*]

I do agree with you that some of the knee-jerk reactions to selling knives is over the top.  Woolworths no longer sell knives of any sort.  So if you happen to need a vegetable knife, Coles sell them.  I guess forks and spoons will be banned next.  One can only wonder where it all ends.  When you think of all the things you could injure or kill someone with, we may as well just ban everything.