Ebay bans psychic readings and prayers

[FSM]

Nice work!
http://www.examiner.com/article/ebay...gs-and-prayers

But I love this quote from someone:

“Ebay bans alternative religious items. But! Not for Christians. Holy water and other sundry ‘holy’ items are discriminately allowed. … Hm. Let me get this straight. Some guy in Rome wearing long robes can wave his hand over some water and imbue it with something, and then it’s very ‘powerful?’ How is that different from any other magical item previously sold on ebay?…”

So many other scam things to ban too, but this is a good start.

Dave.

[Bolero]

Saw this - hehe.

Seriously, though - who the fuck was buying prayers on ebay??

[stevebrooks]

Originally Posted by FSM

Nice work!
http://www.examiner.com/article/ebay...gs-and-prayers

But I love this quote from someone:



So many other scam things to ban too, but this is a good start.

Dave.

Actually the quote is rather misleading, other news reports state that mystical paraphernalia is quite acceptible. So you can sell runestones, magic books, probably even dried magic herbs etc, in other words where an item has a physical existence that gives it a perceived value. What they have stopped, as far as I can gather, is people selling non-physical services, ie: send me $5 and the name of your desire and I will cast a love spell for you etc.

But! Not for Christians. Holy water and other sundry ‘holy’ items are discriminately allowed.

These are physical items with an intrinsic value, however christians couldn't, for instance, sell a prayer, ie: send me $5 and the name of your ailment and I will pray for it to be cured. If they were allowing christian prayers to be sold, but not allowing witches to perform magical love chants, or get rich chants etc for a fee then that would indeed be discrimination.

To me it looks just like bad reporting, nothing more.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

This "alternative religion" must be the most wooiest of all woos that ever existed. No wonder it is banned from eBay!