Sae of catapults and ammunition being used to kill wildlife, damage property and harm pets

[catyp63]

Can I ask how we get ebay to ban the listing of catapults/slingshots and ball bearing ammunition as the BBC news had a feature this morning about wildlife being killed. There ae literally hundreds of catapults, Gypsy catapults, Hunting catapults and slingshots listed with bags of ball bearings sold as ammunition.

[jckl1957]

Ebay comply with the law and the law allows people to sell, buy and carry catapults.

You can try writing to Ebay at their London address but a letter to your MP at the House of Commons might be more effective.

Only people over 18 are allowed to have Ebay accounts so younger people are being allowed to buy these items by parents or carers - who probably have to provide the money as well.

[catyp63]

Really ?

You will continue to sell these weapons yet I couldn’t list an electric carving knife as it was considered to be a weapon.

I think honk you need to seriously review your selling policies as they are flawed.



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[jckl1957]

I understand that you are angry about this, but you have posted in a member to member forum.

You need to contact Ebay regarding THEIR policies.

I have never sold a weapon or owned a catapult.

[catyp63]

Sorry, I thought I was talking to customer services - do you know how I can actually speak to somebody and not a chat bot ?


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[jckl1957]

Ebay Customer Service reps. are call handlers trained to deal with Ebay queries.

Genuinely, you would be wasting your time getting a callback on this issue - it would be like complaining to a checkout person in Tesco about the price of apples!

Write to your MP.

[red_magpie]

Having watched tonight's TV news item about gangs of children with catapults killing and injuring birds, including waterfowl in public parks, I can see where you're coming from.

There are already calls for action to prevent this, and possibly for an age limit to buy catapults. Probably the best thing to do would be to write to your MP about it. From past experience of animal cruelty issues, eBay seems reluctant to impose restrictions act unless the law itself requires this.

But if you want to write to eBay about it, good luck to you! Their head office address is in the user agreeent.