Ebay bans Trade Center, Pentagon items

[jkmak]

These thoughts have never even crossed my mind either. But don't you think even posting this forum topic is giving ideas to profit mongering soul-less losers out there?

[jkmak]

These thoughts have never even crossed my mind either. But don't you think even posting this forum topic is giving ideas to profit mongering soul-less losers out there?

[seanc]

I wouldn't be surprised if it gives more profit-hungry people the idea. It's just sad that people have to try to make money off of trajedies. Sigh...

Sean

[maface]

Thank You e-bay for doing the right thing

[Gouki-]

Oh I'm sure the more it gets out that ppl were attempting to sell items from the WTC and the Pentagon on Ebay that others will try to do the same thing. It's really sad that there are ppl in our society who apparently don't have a moral bone in their body would even think of doing something like this.

I too am glad that Ebay decided to ban this...however according to the article, the ban will be lifted after Oct 1st. So does after that it means it's ok?!!? It's the same thing when Dale Earnhart was killed...ppl tried to sell pictures of his autospy and car crash on Ebay and they wouldn't allow it.

Some things are wrong...and they're always wrong. Not...right now it's wrong...but if you wait a month...then it's ok. <sigh>

[vintron]

i cannot belive HOW dumb and narrow minded some people can be.

btw... i'm pretty sure this is supposed to be sarcastic.

"What a disgusting way to make a buck. Thank God the media would never do a thing like this. "

[ukulele]

vintron---. Let’s hear your views on this. You are perceptive. Personally I think EBay is right on and so is the media. The media has covered this story with out much commercial interruption at their own expense admirably. Is this a trend that will hopefully unite this country or will it become another circus for the press and unscrupulous entrepreneurs as so many tragedies in the past have become? Is insensitive marketing a mark of the times? Do we have the right or the responsibility to censure free enterprise? Is it good for the country? Aren’t these the real questions this thread addresses? I would love to see this become a thinking man’s forum and not another flame out. If you have something to contribute in this most difficult of times please do so.

[The Realist]

It's human nature to profit from disaster and as appalling as it may seem there is little that can be done to stop it. So Ebay has decided not to sell "souvenirs" from these terrorist attacks but, you can be sure that there will be more than a few people out there willing to cash in on this tragedy. As for the media, their "noble" crusade not to profit from the disaster will be short-lived. The media's desire to turn a buck will surely be more powerful than their sympathy towards the victims.

What's most surprising is the astonishment that some people feel towards the fact that there are people willing to sell chunks of brick and broken glass. We live in a society where anything and everything can be bought and sold and the remains of a national tragedy could fetch a pretty penny.

[ukulele]

What a disgusting way to make a buck. Thank God the media would never do a thing like this.

[No Limit]

It's sickening, but that's how people make money in a capitalistic society.

[Banti]

I wonder if eBay will give me these vermin's addresses??

Banti

[Exter]

there will probably come a monument when this is over, and thousends and thousends of poeple would visit it, and a lot of mony will be made then too, its almost unavoidable.

[J.A.D]

Making money off of a tragedy seems pretty cold but on the other hand I can understand people wanting to remember this. For some people, there will not be anything left of a loved one other than concrete or glass. A less grim thought is many people have saved (and sold) things from previous wars and historic events. If someone feels that an old uniform or bullet or piece of the berlin wall is worth something, why not let them purchase it?

[mudoggy]

It is all on a fine line, indeed.

I think it would be fitting if they built a memorial on site out of materials from the rubble. Something like "While entire structures may crumble, the foundation of freedom and democracy can never be breached."

Or something like that.. you get the picture.

People selling stuff.. well, we will always have bottom feeders. I too find it odd that they will permit if for a month, then allow it again. Then again, as has been mentioned so many times this week, we are a free and open society. Is it not someone's right to sell something like that if they choose?

Don't get me wrong, though. Just because some things are legal, doesn't make them moral. (And vice versa).

[clam.digger]

Don't think that many people have not already put "pen to paper" writing movie scripts, novels, books "actual accounts", ect. in hopes of selling their product to the media for $$$$. I can garantee it is happening already (the cynic that I am). And of course the media will buy it to turn a buck (hell I bet all that film we've been watching of the planes crashing into the WTC was SOLD to certain networks by the amatuers that shot it). Ebay is just a tiny piece of the capitalistic bull **** going on right now. Knowing how hospitals and doctors operate (I have no medical insurance and pay top $$ in cash) I can garantee every person going through those hospital doors to recieve treatment is getting charged, the hospital knowing that some insurance company is going to pay (workmans, health, auto if they were in a car when it happened).Make no mistake, it ain't just bottom feeders that are capitalizing.
I would like to commend all the people donating their time, effort, equiptment, etc. without asking or looking for anything in return. Hell, I'm not a complete pessimistic *******!

[clam.digger]

Don't think that many people have not already put "pen to paper" writing movie scripts, novels, books "actual accounts", ect. in hopes of selling their product to the media for $$$$. I can garantee it is happening already (the cynic that I am). And of course the media will buy it to turn a buck (hell I bet all that film we've been watching of the planes crashing into the WTC was SOLD to certain networks by the amatuers that shot it). Ebay is just a tiny piece of the capitalistic bull **** going on right now. Knowing how hospitals and doctors operate (I have no medical insurance and pay top $$ in cash) I can garantee every person going through those hospital doors to recieve treatment is getting charged, the hospital knowing that some insurance company is going to pay (workmans, health, auto if they were in a car when it happened).Make no mistake, it ain't just bottom feeders that are capitalizing.
I would like to commend all the people donating their time, effort, equiptment, etc. without asking or looking for anything in return. Hell, I'm not a complete pessimistic *******!

[clam.digger]

Well, the first 2 times I sent this message I got errors. Seems they went through anyway.

Say something once? Why say it again?
LOL

[Cruez]

They need to extend it beyond the 1st of October....:mad:

[Dokeman]

its ashame that people will try to make a buck off others misfortunes

[elroy]

Until recently Ebay carried auctions selling drawings and paintings done by mass murderers and child killers that are doing life sentences in prison. I guess they need money to shop at the prison comissary.