eBay banning sale of e-cigs

[scyllabub]

As from 30 June:

Policy changes to selling e-cigarettes and manufacturer coupons eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie

scylla

 

[Chrissie]

LOL Scylla, snap!. I just started a thread about this under General discussions.

 

[scyllabub]

Hi (((Chrissie))) I'd better remove the invitation from my signature

scylla

 

[CatVTTV]

I wonder what has sparked this off ?

All I can think of is the juice that doesnt comply to Trading Standards as far as warnings and childproof caps etc are concerned.

But why stop the e-cigs themselves I dont know..

 

[MrLongbeard]

First it was air weapons, then knives, then paintball markers now this dagnabit, fleabay sucks balls.

 

[frogbmth]

Probably just natural progression of the PayPal ban on ecig businesses, I hope those retailers using PayPal as their only payment option are busy installing credit card servers before they get cut off

Andy

 

[lordmage]

i think it falls to more of the labelling issue and the fact that so many areas have officall banned them. it would most likely happen to anything banned enough to get attention.

 

[birdbrain]

Well spotted scylla,
I see their given reason is meaningless.
For me, I expect I'll be missing all those bargains 8-o that I would have spotted on eBay 'cause I'll be searching for the fluid and vapers elsewhere.
Maybe I'll give the wholesale china site a try if this is the begining of a stealthy uk ban.

Over 6 weeks now tobacco free
birdbrain

 

[scyllabub]

I know exactly what you're doing, Birdie - you're paying me a compliment purely to add to your post-count so you can hasten your upgrade to full membership Perfectly legitimate

How's the dear old West Country? I'm from them parts

scylla

 

[paxes]

Probably just natural progression of the PayPal ban on ecig businesses, I hope those retailers using PayPal as their only payment option are busy installing credit card servers before they get cut off

Andy

I use paypal and have had no correspondence from them regarding a ban. In fact Ive just won a dispute over an order from China, so for now everything seems OK
I know they own ebay and its may be just a matter of time before they do ban it.
Do you have any links to this policy.

 

[scyllabub]

Do you have any links to this policy.

It's the light blue link in my original post, which you must have thought was rather bald, to say the least

scylla

 

[ApOsTle51]

I think Paxes was after paypals policy on e-cigs rather than e-bays, but I could be wrong.

 

[scyllabub]

Ah well, for Paxes' info, PayPal don't seem to have a policy, only eBay have made an announcement. A few non-eBay e-cig sellers that I know of use PayPal to take payments, there most be loads that do.

scylla

 

[paxes]

Your spot on ApOsTle51, Its Paypals policy im after

 

[frogbmth]

Ludo from Janty discussed this a few months back, it is why Janty do not use PayPal checkout, but ask for buyers to make a manual paypal payment. The section in question is

Prohibited ActivitiesYou may not use the PayPal service for activities that:

1. breach any law, statute, statutory instrument, bye-law, regulation, , rule or order
2. relate to sales of (a) narcotics, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer safety, (b) drug paraphernalia(c) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (d) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, (e) items that are considered obscene, (f) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (g) certain sexually oriented materials or services, (h) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, or (i) ,certain weapons or knives regulated under applicable law
3. relate to transactions that (a) show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law, (b) support pyramid or ponzi schemes, matrix programs, other "get rich quick" schemes or certain multi-level marketing programs, (c) are associated with purchases of annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore banking or transactions to finance or refinance debts funded by a credit card, (d) are for the sale of certain items before the seller has control or possession of the item, (e) are by payment processors to collect payments on behalf of merchants, (f), are associated with the sale of traveler's checks or money orders, (h) involve currency exchanges or check cashing businesses, or (i) provide certain credit repair or debt settlement services
4. involve the sales of products or services identified by government agencies to have a high likelihood of being fraudulent
5. violate applicable laws or industry regulations regarding the sale of (a) tobacco products, or (b) prescription drugs and devices
6. involve gambling, gaming and/or any other activity with an entry fee and a prize, including, but not limited to casino games, sports betting, horse or greyhound racing, lottery tickets, other ventures that facilitate gambling, games of skill (whether or not it is legally defined as a lottery) and sweepstakes unless the operator has obtained prior approval from PayPal and the operator and customers are located exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law.

The discussion had been sparked by credit card merchants suddenly revoking accounts of e-cig sellers.

 

[teddy]

hi people... i bought my first e-cig from ebay(510titan) using paypal about a week ago.is it possible that they would deem that as me being naughty?

''.....2 relate to sales of (a) narcotics, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer safety, (b) drug paraphernalia

 

[frogbmth]

Dont sweat it, they dont seem to be actively stalking us

 

[chief druid]

just look out the window every now and then to see if theres a black van parked out side with a sign on it saying "not watching you at all"

 

[nonfagashlil]

Hi,

The ban is published here: http: //www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/200905261817582.html (you will have to remove the space in the URL as I am too new to post URLS! Boohoo.

The policy changes to selling e-cigarettes applies to all products and related components - there are hundreds of people likely to be affected as e-cigs are big business on ebay.

I have just had to look at changing my processor, not that I was a massive fan of Paypal but its a pain to switch. Nochex allow people to sell e-cigarettes and actually offer a better rate which suprised me - they obviously don't see a problem with e-cigarettes!

Thought you might like to see the article.