15-yr-old Stabs Schoolmate 3 Times With Dagger He Bought On Ebay

[jessie]

[quote author=mandy link=topic=2924.msg13417#msg13417 date=1146643591]
This quote is from an article in today's (London) Times:

Ofcom, the communications regulator, has published the results of a survey of the technology used by 5,000 parents and children...

One in five children aged between 12 and 15 has a weblog and a website. One in four uses the internet to buy and sell goods through auction sites such as eBay and QXL..

full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,...77,00.html
[/quote]

Ebay hasn't noticed yet?

[iron_chick]

The 16 year old seller whose thread I posted a week or so back . . . .
The one who POSTED on the Stores Board that he's 16.
The on who has his AGE on his ME page.
He's still selling. 

[bargainbloodhound]

eBay is willing to overlook an underage seller who legally can't enter into a binding contract with his auction buyers, but you can bet if he did something that eBay considers "awful" like listing a choice listing that cheated ebay out of $0.25-$0.35 in fees they'd kick him off in a second.