Disgusted with the number of sellers shipping DG's illegally

[ruraltrade]

Browsing through the beauty/nail category I was horrified at how many sellers are shipping dangerous goods through express post.  This is illegal!  Is ebay policing this?  Is there some way to report these idiots who have no qualms at putting other peoples health and safety at risk?  Even if the seller has a contract with Australia Post they can still not send these items by Express Post.  And to send these items by express post they are making a false declaration on the package when signing it stating there are no items classed as dangerous goods inside.

The items I am talking about is monomer, nail preparation products - all highly flammable!

[thecatspjs]

what it has to do with, is the info that you provide to others that is very misleading - you posted on this matter that "it is not the responsibility for ebay to police"

Well it is their responsibility, and they do police it. 

Your scenario re litigation and plane crash - lol -

IMO ebay would be more concerned about the relevant Fed or state authorities & watchdogs, and potential threat of prosecution and fines,well before any plane crashed.

[dylan11235813]

golly gosh

ebay can't even run there own business at an exeptable level let alone worry about how things are posted. they do ahve the disclaimer which is nice of them.

[***super_nova***]

IMO ebay would be more concerned about the relevant Fed or state authorities & watchdogs, and potential threat of prosecution and fines,well before any plane crashed.

Right, so you think that if AP realised that a parcel contained perfume, and was sent by express, they would be charging eBay!!!!!!!!?  No, they would charge the sender.  If the sender = seller, would say that they did not know because eBay did not tell them, do you think that would be an excuse for signing false declaration on the satchel?  As I said, the way item is posted has nothing to do with eBay.

Talking about giving bad advice :_|:O

[alucardn9ne]

Jezz. I think we're all getting a bit worked up here.

All it is - it's just bureaucracy and red tape by AP. The perfume is in a glass container which, last time a checked, doesn't conduct electricity, which usually has a cardboard package and sent in an anti static satchel anyways. There's nothing dangerous about it, except the declarations made by AP. Commercial airlines serve Alcohol and sell perfume and every passenger in carrying a mobile phone. If it was a concern they would hand out anti-static bags to tell everyone to put their phones in them  

It's exactly the same as the warnings on the petrol stations to turn off your phones - it's all a load of BS

But they're always going to be the type of people who declare everything on their taxes, never jay walk and think it's the moral obligation as a citizen to enforce every single stupid law, that government makes. 

So everyone, get on with your lives and stop worrying about stupid laws that the government try to scare us with...

[thecatspjs]

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Right, so you think that if AP realised that a parcel contained perfume, and was sent by express, they would be charging eBay!!!!!!!!?  No, they would charge the sender.  If the sender = seller, would say that they did not know because eBay did not tell them, do you think that would be an excuse for signing false declaration on the satchel?  As I said, the way item is posted has nothing to do with eBay.

Talking about giving bad advice :_|:O

[/quote]

you are on another page, in another land, on another planet, if you can read that into my post