Why we are not on Ebay
Although we preferred to remain private, in response to customer requests, we put a little shop on eBay and after 3 months building a fabulous customer circle, the Puritans of eBay, without proper reason, warning or conversation, promptly closed our shop down without the right to reply or even discuss their issues. So much for the freedoms of the First Amendment. After they closed Zuggans on eBay down, they notified us that they closed our shop “for contravening eBays rules”.

eBay claimed we were selling poisons, but all of our “poisonous” materials were plants or seeds. To be absolutely clear, vascular plants and their seeds are exempt from the Poisons and Explosives Precursors List (with a few exceptions for recreational drugs and possible terror weapons) in the UK for good reason. If poisonous plants were illegal, every plant nursery in the country would go out of business, and just about every gardener would be made into a criminal because half our garden and countryside plants are poisonous, some notoriously so. Since eBay sells hundreds of poisonous plants and thousands of poisonous seeds, quite apart from the sale of many other poisonous materials and chemicals, their “reason” appears spurious. The irony here is that we sourced some of our seeds and materials from eBay sellers in the first place. All of the sellers we used are still selling the same products with impunity and many sellers blatantly use the word ‘poisonous’ in their item titles and descriptions. In the list of lethal items, our materials come way down the list, far behind cars, electrical goods, ladders, kitchen knives, and just about every other modern convenience, millions of which appear on eBay.

Digging into the policies of eBay and the wording of eBay’s juvenile shop closure notification it seems that they act whenever the public warns them about mischief – which is like letting a mad dog loose in the community, then piously claiming as your defence that you will act if someone tells you when it bites people. Getting the public to complain is simply an unctuous ruse by eBay to avoid policing its own back yard and thereby exposing vast numbers of people to fraud and danger. From a business perspective it allows eBay to continue collect their percentage from products that contravene their own policies and of course eBay waives the cost of protecting the public by avoiding policing their own inventory.

We are not at all bitter about eBay shutting us down as it was a salient reminder that ones ability to provide for oneself should never be reliant on another company's polices and rules. We simply think that eBay should apply rules evenly and fairly. With eBay’s vast technology base there is absolutely NO reason, other than vulgar profiteering, for eBay to simply scan the titles and text descriptions of the listings to easily and fairly enforce its own idiotic rules.

So, with that being said, why did eBay pick on us?

Best case scenario is that eBay closed us down because a sad snowflake troll reported us to them. They closed us down but failed to check for other sellers selling the same items - a clear eBay ‘policy’ to maximise their profits. Worst case is that they shut us down because our shop sold genuine powerful magick and witchcraft items. eBay hasn’t applied the rules they applied to our shop to hundreds of others on eBay and thereby has treated us and our customer community in a way that is nothing short of blatant religious discrimination*.

There was a time when there would be special name given to such a shabby organisation that we suspect is facilitating world wide theft by allegedly selling millions of items without checking if they are stolen, that sells thousands of actual poisons, sells explosive precursors, remote triggers of use to terrorists, encourages fraud by forcing sellers to pay rip-off fraudulent customers, sells ethyl alcohol without collecting Excise Duty, trades in millions of counterfeit goods and sails very close to the border of illegality and protects itself by using a battery of lawyers and accountants to avoid its moral duty. It appears to act only in the name of making money, the profits on which it spirits away overseas without paying fair UK tax, leaving other, more honest people, traders and organisations such as Citizens Advice to pick up the pieces, repair the damage and pay the bill.

Ebay’s slogan - "Earth's Most Customer-centric Company" should really be “Earth’s Most Self-centric Company”.
And that’s why we’re not on Ebay …

eBay … here, a little gift from us to you …

This sigil, much like your shameful business actions, cannot be unseen.

So mote it be.

And for the sad little person that reported us to eBay …

… we'd love to insult you, but we won't do as well as nature did.

A gift for you too …

So mote it be.


* Religious discrimination is treating a person or group differently because of the particular beliefs which they hold about a religion. This includes instances when adherents of different religions, denominations or non-religions are treated unequally due to their particular beliefs.