Comments on: eBay Prohibits Sale of Teacher’s Editions of Textbooks

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:53:18 +0000

So, selling teacher’s keys is BAD, but selling pornography is okay? THey have a whole section of disgusting items but they decided teacher’s keys are just way too unethical to sell…

By: Marlene

Marlene — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:44:27 +0000

Wait! Wait! Wait! Ebay.co.uk can sell Teachers editions of textbooks but we can’t? Is this really the case and if so maybe we shouldn’t have fought the Revolutionary War after all.

By: SweetAcacia

SweetAcacia — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:08:55 +0000

We have created a group to help folks find the resources they need for homeschoolers, public school teachers, and vintage TE collectors. We promote This Little Piggy Stays Home, Wagglepop, and Blujay for legal TE sales. Join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teachers_editions

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:19:58 +0000

Damn! I really wish eBay hadn’t done this. How am I going to get the books with all the answers in them now? Oh well, I guess I’ll just go back to paying Jenny to do my homework for me.

By: Mic from Kansas

Mic from Kansas — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:13:39 +0000

Yes, I can see the Teacher’s Union, School boards, etc. behind all this. I know that Homeschooling is really taking off in my area (state university town).

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:25:50 +0000

I think Gunner has it right. But we do live in a free market economy, and there are auction sites other than eBay to choose from.

Maybe some of the homeschooling websites should post the URLs of the auction sites that list the most teacher’s edition textbooks. After all we do live in a free market economy.

By: gunner

gunner — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:24:37 +0000

“eBayâ€™s response is that teacherâ€™s editions of textbooks often contain â€œspecial answer keys, exams, teaching tips, and guides.â€? Oh no, canâ€™t let peope have access to that!

eBay also stated that â€œmultiple organizations and publishers have voiced their concern to us over such books that may only be purchased through educational institutions by teachers.”
—————————
If anyone wants to go digging I suspect they would find the N.E.A.’s hand in this as the principal organization complaining, it’s a turf thing. Homeschoolers are a threat to the N.E.A.’s little empire built on our taxes, after all if just anyone can school their children at home who will the teacher’s union collect dues from.