age verification...

[etena1970]

bonkers cant even buy a hole saw..dont have a credit card..god knows how many years ive been a member..over 3000 100% pos feed back...what the hell coud i do with a 2 inch hole saw that cant be done with a glass bottle from any supermarket....absolutely very angry

[sml192]

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@gameshowpete wrote:

Very poor show eBay, you need other means to verify - including the fact I’ve had my account for over 20 yrs…….

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Agreed, eBay really should add another way to verify age.  There was another thread recently where the OP was asked to use 'VerifyMyAge' when buying a bladed item so maybe they are starting to do something about it.  They also really need to do something about the number of listings that are being incorrectly flagged for verification.

As for the age of your account that only proves the age of the account holder and not necessarily the age of the person making the purchase.

[smorrisby]

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You clearly have not read the act in question, which proves my original assertion ebay are clueless 

[seaandmountain]

I had my wife's unused cake slice listing removed under the knife violation policy, so just goes to show. I've had antique butter knives removed from my listings as they are deemed too dangerous also. Unless you post with age verification requirement label which costs an arm and a leg - no pun intended. 

So obviously the cities are awash with crazed youths running amok with cake servers and butter knives.

[godfather9588008]

This is eBay nonsense my grandson. 6 years old could have came with a
better way to check age no credit card nonsense since not everyone have one
or want one shame on eBay for not spending time to get a proper way to
check for age.

[tressygirl]

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@godfather9588008 wrote:
This is eBay nonsense my grandson. 6 years old could have came with a
better ...

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eBay therefore choose the ' cheapest' route,  using credit cards which those companies have already done those extensive and expensive checks, so eBay use this as their form to verify a person is 18 years plus buying those items.

Are they losing sales,  yes,   but this too will have been checked to see if that warrants to employ more staff to check other forms of verification,  it would seem that the credit card wins hands down here!

@godfather9588008

@godfather9588008

[peters3865]

eBay are clearly intent on destroying their own company with their dumb "AI" bots.  If tradespeople can't buy holesaws, files and other items which are OBVIOUSLY not weapons or knives on eBay, they will stop looking on eBay for things like drill bits, power tools etc. and will just go to Amazon or Screwfix.  eBay will be gone within 5 years as their management seem to be completely stupid and bewitched by AI

[smorrisby]

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I now only use ebay if I have no other choice.

[sea-breeze-designs]

I don't know how I got verified to buy vape juice I thought I used my driving license and birth certificate I have never owned a credit card

I am already verified on eBay to buy vape juice but today they want me to verify using a credit card to buy a power tool for the garden I guess I will have to shop somewhere else

[jonatjonatjonat]

That is a true oddity - but for some reason ebay have different age verification methods for different categories of items.

There's no explanation at all for it. It's just ebay being ebay.

[sea-breeze-designs]

I bought the power tool from Amazon instead 

Verifying my age should only need to be done once. My age does not change via change of purchases. 

Amazon automatically verified my age it was so simple over there 

[sml192]

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@sea-breeze-designs wrote:

I bought the power tool from Amazon instead 

Verifying my age should only need to be done once. My age does not change via change of purchases. 

Amazon automatically verified my age it was so simple over there 

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The legislation requires age verification to be performed for each purchase as it is the age of the person making the purchase not the account holder that needs to be verified and they may not necessarily be the same person (not that the legislation applies to power tools anyway).

[karlboat]

It's ridiculous isn't it, go woke go broke ?

[jonatjonatjonat]

What exactly is woke about age verification for bladed articles?

[smorrisby]

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It's not bladed articles we are complaining about. Read the thread!

[karlboat]

It isn't just bladed articles, if you haven't noticed.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Ok. What’s woke about eBay age verifying other items in general?

[lucy_farmer]

Oh come on jonat.... you know 'woke' is just the insult du-jour, to be attached to anything you don't like!

🙄

(and I bet it's all the fault of Rachel-in-accounts anyway....)

[smorrisby]

Please don't message up my thread with politics. 🙂

[peters3865]

Nobody in their right mind is in favour of knife crime, and under-18s
getting hold of deadly weapons; but banning honest traders from selling
junior hacksaws, fretsaw blades and other items which nobody with sanity
this side of Trump could possibly think of as a weapon is just plain stupid.
Also the new legislation, well intentioned though it no doubt is, will not
prevent one single crime as any under-18 gang member wishing to attack
someone will either take a knife from their mother's kitchen drawer, or get
a slightly older gang member to legally buy one for them. In what world is
someone going to plot a crime and decide the best way to do it is to order a
junior hacksaw from eBay? It's nonsense- political correctness taken way,
way beyond common sense

[jonatjonatjonat]

‘My thread’?