03-02-2022 10:46 AM
I see that eBay has posted a statement about shipments in/out of Ukraine, but WHY is eBay still allowing any buyers or sellers with IP addresses based in Russia or Belarus to participate in this service? They should be banned effective immediately.
03-02-2022 10:50 AM - edited 03-02-2022 10:51 AM
@tom-dakota wrote:I see that eBay has posted a statement about shipments in/out of Ukraine, but WHY is eBay still allowing any buyers or sellers with IP addresses based in Russia or Belarus to participate in this service? They should be banned effective immediately.
Why should the common folk be banned?
They are not Putin...
...but they suffer under him.
03-02-2022 11:10 AM
03-02-2022 11:27 AM
A poll suggests that Putin's actions are supported by only 45% of Russians. As there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm for this war, I think it would be best at this point to leave the decision to buy from or sell to Russia up to individual buyers and sellers. I don't think there's much for sale on the site that would be of benefit to the Russian war effort, anyway.
Besides, with the transportation network betwen North America and Russia being effectively shut down, how would any purchases being made reach their destination, anyway?
03-02-2022 11:44 AM
AKA as a "Catch 22" so there really is no reason to ban anyone on the site.
03-02-2022 02:19 PM
03-06-2022 08:28 PM
44.9 percent if Russians are afraid not to support the government
03-07-2022 01:30 AM
Russian buyers are blocked right now. They have been added to all sellers shipping excluded lists.
Any listings that I've seen from Russian sellers can't be completed as
all of their 'ship to' locations have been excluded.
04-07-2022 04:17 AM
04-07-2022 02:53 PM
eBay has blocked all listings from shipping to Russia and Belarus.
04-10-2022 03:52 PM
04-18-2022 08:48 PM
Saying that a person should be banned (or limited in his rights in any way) solely based on his nationality is called.. what, again? I don't think those who demand those bans are ready to admit to themselves who they really are.
Also banning buyers (not sellers) from Russia and Belarus makes no sense at all since it is eBay and its sellers who are losing money. Russians and belarussians are only saving money and will probably just spend it elsewhere.
It is also unclear what the goal of this is. To make people angry so they "overthrow" their government? This is not how it works in those countries. There are problems far exceeding any western sanctions, and that still didn't manage to make a change.
A better way of dealing with the situation would be to put a tax on russian and belarussian buyers (and probably sellers) which would go towards helping the victims of war.
07-06-2022 10:40 AM
07-06-2022 03:47 PM
What about those Americans and what they did to the native peoples of North America or the Spanish and the South American cultures, or those Germans murdering millions, or the Norse **bleep** and pillaging, how about those Mongolians...
...every single one of us is descended from wars, plagues, and famines.
09-15-2023 08:51 PM
09-15-2023 08:54 PM
09-15-2023 10:47 PM
not you, nor anyone else>NO ONE is obliged to look at, search for, or in any way need to be in contact with and/or do ANY business with ANY country, ANY seller/ANY buyer they do not wish to do so: this all can be BLOCKED!
09-15-2023 10:49 PM
ZOMBIE THREAD FROM 2022!
09-15-2023 11:24 PM
Hi everyone,
Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.
Thank you for understanding.