Phoenix pagan perspectives on eBay banning magic and metaphysical supplies

[icymist]

It might sound like some kind of ridiculous hocus pocus story, but eBay officially banned the sale of metaphysical supplies on Thursday August 30, 2012.

For those to whom this is news, perk up your ears. This is for real and it happened very quickly. In fact the boycott only happened within two weeks since being announced. Now that is is nearly a week passed the deadline, a bit of perspective can begin to be had on the whole dilemma.

Many news agencies covered the story. From the low brow weird news section of Cnews to the distinguished online reporting of the Wall Street Journal. The banning of magical goods on the auction block giant was big talk both online and in the real world. The ban will put possibly thousands of online metaphysical retailers and psychics out of business.
http://www.examiner.com/article/phoenix-pagan-perspectives-on-ebay-banning-magic-and-metaphysical-supplies?cid=rss

[Mothdust]

1. This is a bad thing. Why?

who caused this change and why? I wonder who decides what exactly qualifies as a majical or metaphysical thing? don't even ordinary playing cards have their origin in the occult practice of divination? It seems this change would lead to losses. I certainly wouldn't want to invest in a company making such limiting and prejudicial moves.

[icymist]

2. It seems to me that ebay could have handled this better.

There are legitimate aspects to pagan religions and faiths and to just ban all types of services like this smells of discrimination.