Bladed items

[sheffieldsvintage]

Think Ebay are just annoying members now for the sake of it. Bearing in mind I don't list bladed items! I have just received an email from Ebay, posted part of it below:

Since you’re listing bladed items on ebay, we’re writing to let you know about some upcoming new requirements. From 11 March 2025, we’re expanding and strengthening buyer age-verification requirements for bladed items to ensure only people aged 18 or older are able to purchase and receive them. This protects both buyers and sellers, provides safety and reassurance, and helps keep you legally compliant.

[moldosgifts]

The legislation is put in place with the best intent, and your always going to get nuances that don't quite fit what the legislation was intended for.

[leighbayuk]

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@sheffieldsvintage wrote:

Bearing in mind I don't list bladed items!

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Ah, the good old days when you could happily sell a screwdriver, hammer and a saw to a child. Now seen to be "tooling up". 😉

[reparq]

Are parents being told to lock up your cutlery ? In America they have started prosecuting parents who don't secure firearms (good idea)  so little Johny is going to order a food processor (on the list) rather than help himself. 

Government is tinkering at the edges.  

[fribblecollectables]

 

These are some butter spreaders I have for sale. Also known as butter knives. You use them to scrape or slice butter from  the pat, and then spread it onto bread or toast. 

Very soon I might have to explain to a buyer as to why they have to be in when the postman calls, ready with their passport or driving licence to prove their age before they get handed over.

But actually, the likelihood of them selling will be slim, as Royal Mail charge £6.27 for their cheapest Age Verification service. And I'm not subsidising that on a  cheap lot of cutlery.

I sell dessert forks that could potentially cause more damage, what with their sharp pointy tines.

[winstonep]

I'm selling chisels and punches (they are not those razor sharp ones, not designed to be sharpened) and I've had the same. They are not bladed items, I would regard wood chisels as being covered by that definition.

Apparently, if they can cause harm to a person by cutting their skin, then they can be considered a bladed article. Well, a hammer would do just that and it isn't considered a bladed item.

[reparq]

Just arrived, proof ebay don't even know what day it is.

Hi *****,

Since you’re listing bladed items on ebay.co.uk, we’re writing to let you know about some urgent new requirements. Starting from this Thursday, 11 March 2025, we’re expanding and strengthening buyer age-verification requirements for bladed items to ensure only people aged 18 or older are able to purchase and receive them. This protects both buyers and sellers, provides safety and reassurance, and helps keep you legally compliant.

Not doing anything to my listings, if they go, they go.

[winstonep]

Just sold more yesterday and I checked them. They are not blades (any of them). To me a bladed item would be something you could take out of the packaging and without any modifications use it to slice something open.

Interestingly, I noticed that one DIY retailer does not list wood chisels as age restricted items. They are bladed items which could be used to cause harm but not in the same way a knife could be.

[555njp]

Yep spotted that, so Is it Tuesday 11th or Thursday 13th 😂 or even March?

I keep getting reminders but I’m literally only listing wood screws at the moment. There’s a link to verify your listings but it goes nowhere?

Ebay should at least warn a seller if they are non-compliant (by listing). If they just make it invisible I doubt I’d notice given most of my stuff seems to be hidden by eBay anyway.

[icried]

I have had the same message and I sell a lot of different things, but not bladed articles. 

[reparq]

Sadly it is not what we think but what ebay thinks. So food processors are on the list.

Can't see Little Johny being turned away from the High street when he is trying/ pretending  to buy his Mother a food processor as a gift.

[biddingbarmy]

I got the same message and I'm not even selling anything!!! 

[privatebaldrick]

Just to provide a little more info on this topic.

I actually contacted eBay over this because I also got a message and none of my current listings have blades. Their response was that because I had a sale in my history that referenced blades, I got the message and I could ignore it.

The item I sold in my history didn't even have a blade. The listing simply had the word 'saw' in it because I was selling a wheeled stand for a Dewalt table saw.

So if a current listing or even a historical sale had something to do with blades or used one of their trigger words in the listing you'll receive the warning message. 

Seems that although the message is about sharp items, the approach to sending it out is pretty dumb and blunt. 

Sigh...

[biddingbarmy]

I wonder if buyers are informed as well.  I SAW your coat for sale and think it would make me a SHARP dresser. Just one POINT I'm not clear on regarding delivery, I'd like to wear it on Friday, any chance of posting it QUICK SHARP? hahaha

[privatebaldrick]

I like the cut of your jib!

And your wit is razor sharp and cutting. You will soon receive an acutely worded, piercing and edgy email from eBay warning you to update your delivery options.

I'm going to sever this conversation now and update all of my listings to ensure they include as many of these words as possible 😄  

Please don't respond with any barbed comments otherwise I will be left serrated.

[imperfectly-perfected]

I've had a 'final reminder' notification today on my selling account - I'm in the process of shifting my record collection and have nothing but vinyl records listed - if I click the button in the email marked 'verify your listings' it displays all 20 of the active ones with no indication as to what I need to do - clearly nothing as far as I thought; the only time I've seen records used as weapons was in Shawn of The Dead. 

I got onto the chat and one of the team told me that my listings are fine and they have sent it to all sellers but the message is rather confusing - the email starts "Since you’re listing bladed items on ebay.co.uk, we’re writing to let you know about some urgent new requirements."

I've gone through the description but can't see any word that could be picked up as related to a bladed item 🙄

[hiker49]

I listed a Vax Blade 4 vacuum cleaner and got the message re bladed items.  In an online chat I convinced them that a vacuum cleaner is not a viable weapon and they agreed not to apply the bladed item requirements to this listing.  Don't use the word 'blade' or anything like it in a listing to avoid this stupidity!

[diytoolbox]

Are wood carving chisels classified as bladed item?   Age verification post service is 95% more expensive than normal Tracked48 small parcel delivery cost.  It is all about paying more money to sell and post.

[reparq]

Sadly Chisels are and saws , why saws ? seriously ?

The following knives and bladed products are allowed as long as buyers confirm they are 18 or older at checkout and sellers use age-verified delivery and follow all delivery guidelines:

• Crafting tools like rotary blades
• Dining cutlery sets that include knives used for eating, such as butter, cheese, fish, or steak knives
• Food processors, meat saws, and pizza cutters
• Letter openers
• Personal care products like manicure kits, dermaplaning tools, and straight razors
• Pickaxes and mattocks
• Scissors
• Spears and javelins
• Tools such as axes, billhooks, chisels, hatchets, hoof trimming tools, chainsaws, and saws 
• Waiters friend or sommelier knife

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/knives-policy?id=5047

[winstonep]

Wood chisels yes, not these. They do not have a sharp edge.

[reparq]

If they are worried about little Johny turning a Food processor blades into a weapon I don't think they care about the subtilties of the chisel world.