@*knight-rider* wrote:
`Think the nightclubs, social media companies, pubs etc have proved over the years that just because someone says they are over an age doesn't mean they are.`
Indeed, but those institutions, and all but a few essential public services have pro ved that they don't have to justify their decision not to do business with people. If a supermarket can't prove that the half-bottle in your pocket wasn't just the emergency restorative you always bring when leaving home, they can still ban you from thir premises.A pub can bar someone and refuse to argue about whether he really brings inebriation into disrepote. eBay sellers who block biddedrs should understand this.
I am sure eBay would rather let people buy whatever they want. But they have more than once been named as purveyors of knives to adolescents.
Of course it is failure rules in response to failure legislation, designed to let government and eBay say "But at least we tried something." I can't see it doing a lot of good, as long as pickaxes have handles and old socks can have rocks put in them. But they have taken the line that the interestsof their shareholders, which directors are obliged by law to regard as paramount, are better served by reputation than by more cutlery sales.
Q~~_7.JPG "plpmr"){kind=avatar}
