This came in my TAGnotes this morning from Auction Guild
Hope the link at the bottom helps to take the sting out of the eBay Ban.
My Best,
Donna
EBAY MAKES THEIR SITE HOMESCHOOL UNFRIENDLY
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ebaY has decided that homeschoolers are no longer fully welcome on their site.
With reasons that TAG finds completely absurd, ebaY has banned texts used
extensively by people who homeschool their children. These texts are called
Teacher Editions, and ebaY has banned them because they provide the answers to
the questions in the text. If ebaY was simply trying to prevent children from buying
such texts to prevent them from "cheating", why not simply put them in a protected
category where a charge card must be used to access that category, such as that
used for "adult" material on ebaY? ebaY has had some stupid policies in the past,
but TAG thinks this one trumps them all. As with other ebaY bans, other sites will
benefit by ebaY's stupidity, and that is a good thing.
ebaY's ridiculous policy is here -
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/teachersedition.html
And if you are looking for an alternative for your homeschool materials, here is one
TAG came across -
http://www.thislittlepiggystayshome.com/
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