Why is Ebay accepting listings that for collection only? When non essential travel is forbidden.

[woodmaverick1]

Non essential travel is forbidden in most of the world.  Listing items that are collection only is encouraging the spread of the Corona Virus.  So unless you can walk to the collection point whilst keeping 2m away from anyone during your daily exercise the transaction should not take place.

EBAY WHERE IS YOUR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY?

[rusticrye]

For several reasons:

1. Collection items can easily be collected during an 'essential travel' journey.

2. There are ways of making collections without encroaching on a person's 2-metre space.

3. Collection items can be collected at any future time, as they should only be paid for in cash or by bank transfer (PayPal is not safe for collection items).

4. The item being collected may well be essential to the person buying it, ie. urgently required.

5. The quickly-generated cash from a collection item may be essential to the seller, ie. urgently required.

6. Ebay quite naturally expects people to use their commonsense, which people will quite naturally do in the current situation.

@woodmaverick1 

[vijorey]

In case you haven't noticed, this is a question and answer forum for members who have urgent problems with selling or buying..

there is no eBay staff here

if you want to join in on the oceans of the same topic, please look on the discussion board....

in case you do not realise, eBay is a selling platform and do not list anything..and are not teachers in common sense...it is entirely due to sellers using their grey matter and of course buyers need to use theirs too as wether they are able to collect or not...

[doneposting]

eBayers where is your personal responsibility?

[red_magpie]

EBAY WHERE IS YOUR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY?

EBay's response to the virus emergency has been shameful.

Apart from all but shutting down it's customer support and clamping down on price gouging for items like hand sanitisers, it's done almost except to waive fees for shops that have to close, and partially defer some other business fee payments.

EBay has done nothing to either limit the listing of items for collection, or even to issue guidance on this. They have also done nothing about the thousands of sellers who are now unable to leave their homes to post items, some of whom are already receiving negative feedback because of this.

As so often, eBay doesn't seem to care.

[john1297576]

We are members like you, NOT ebay, we do not make policies. I suggest you go to the GREEN box at the top of the page and read ebay's latest update which I am sure you will find is in accordance with Government Policy.