Ebay is implementing a policy of not selling knives to anyone under 18. OK that’s what they are trying to do.
I tried to buy a Wall Chaser, a device that cuts groves in a brick wall or concrete to fit cables or pipes etc, but was told I had to prove I was over 18, so please provide credit card details. Except I don’t have a credit card, too easy to spend money you don’t have. And no other way of proving one’s age.
I don’t know if you know but a Wall Chaser doesn’t have blades, it ‘cuts’ into brick by grinding away the material, with diamond covered metal discs, a sort of angle grinder. So the person writing the code doesn’t understand how these work.
Funnily enough, last time I contacted Ebay support, the person said “hi mr xxx, thank you for being an ebay member for over 22 years…., so ebay can’t be bothered to check its own records about age of its buyers.
This is a pain in the rear, I shall just have to go to Toolstation, or Screwfix or a local builders merchants and buy one on monday.
In fact if we want to get into it, a garden spade, the front bit of that is called a blade, so you prob can’t by garden spades on ebay.
I agree with stopping underage people getting access to sharp knives, the internet could start by preventing Youtube showing ads for exceedingly sharp knives, however that would stop Google earning money from ads so prob not likely. And how about these “3/6 Way Gang 2/5/10M Cable Switched Surge Protect Extension Lead Plug Sockets UK”, auction no 396014087800. These are fundamentally dangerous in almost every way, yet ebay continues to allow their sale.
I wishebay would plan things and not impliment half baked policies, it used to be not bad but has got more difficult to use over the years.
