03-15-2006, 10:40 AM
Quote:The supermarket Tesco has asked auction website eBay to stop people selling its Computers for Schools vouchers - but eBay says the sales are quite legal...
Some sellers on eBay say they have many hundreds of vouchers they do not need as a result of their purchases. But trading them breaks Tesco's rules...
One of the rules of the Tesco scheme says: "Vouchers may not be transferred between schools, organisations or individuals for monetary payment or any other consideration."...
Buyers who buy the vouchers on eBay are getting a bad deal. The vouchers are being sold for more than they're worth on eBay:
Quote:To buy, for example, a computer drawing tablet worth £35 through the Tesco catalogue, someone would need 1,150 vouchers.
Buying those on eBay at the rate of £6.50 per hundred, with postage, would mean spending more than £74 - for something retailing at £35.
full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/educa...802556.stm