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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 25 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

How is it that eBay doesn't have any resposibility for helping to crack down on these?

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

Because it's not illegal, just immoral.

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably because there is not a firm law on scalping, on top of being international site which makes applying laws even more difficult.

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Yea... but also, they're a private business, they don't have to accept it. It's called having integrity.

It's pretty slimey to be like "welp, we know it's immoral, but it's not illegal, so we'll profit off of it".

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

It's a business and an American one at that. Of course they're going to put profit over morality.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Company policy to delist scalped products. It's quite simple. It's not like these listings are hard to find.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

There's so many it's impossible to get them all

[–] FlordaMan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

It’s a corporation. They only care about money. Integrity is only important to them if it leads to more money.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

If fleaBay stopped them, they'd just do it somewhere else and then they would lose profits and solve nothing. It's really not their responsibility.

When Ford and Tesla tried to stop stuff like this they were lambasted for infringing on customer freedoms.

https://carbuzz.com/news/ford-sues-john-cena-for-flipping-his-gt-supercar-and-making-a-profit/