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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.

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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.

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

 

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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

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.

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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@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).

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

What exactly is woke about age verification for bladed articles?

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘My thread’?