E-bay knife sales

was looking at a few listings tonight and there was something about not being able to list knives after March 10th
 
can't post the ones i looked at because they are on-going auctions according to the rules here. Do a search on a few and they will show up. It happened on three different knives i looked at tonight.
 
Per Google News search ... as of March 10, the sale of all knives and swords, except cutlery, will be banned from sale on eBay's UK and Ireland sites.
 
If you search for "knife" on Ebay right now, you will get about 76,000 hits. I'd be amazed if that came to pass.
 
I just figured that if they made just $2 per sale on the knives listed, and, figuring the listings last for about a week, and there are usually that many knives listed per week, that Ebay will make almost 8 million dollars on knife sales in just one year! Does that seem right to you guys? Man, I'm definitely in the wrong business, I highly doubt they'd want to give that revenue up, especially when you factor in the Paypal fees.
 
As a UK based collector I am concerned about Ebay-UK's decision, I know it is political response to an increasing level of knife killings and injuries we are experiencing over here (young people mostly). If I wanted to get a knife for criminal purposes I would go to the kitchen drawer rather than go to e-bay. I think Ebay in the UK should have been selective in their ban and only restrict the fixed blades and lock knives (that are illegal in UK). I don't imagine that a thug would prefer a vintage peanut over one of these.

I can't help thinking that our current UK knife problem has been exacerbated by the British youth culture of binge drinking and the weak punishment that the courts give out.
 
greyelm said:
I can't help thinking that our current UK knife problem has been exacerbated by the British youth culture of binge drinking and the weak punishment that the courts give out.
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It's pretty obvious that the UK also has a solid base of responsible outdoor and knife people. The current knife problem is more a function of media hype and political pandering and fear-mongering. Logic alone will show that criminals are not deterred by any of the sappy measures that have been imposed on honest citizens.
 
greyelm said:
If I wanted to get a knife for criminal purposes I would go to the kitchen drawer rather than go to e-bay.
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I have thought about the very same thing regarding kitchen cutlery! How many high street shops in the UK carry wares of this ilk, Debenhams, Argos, umpteen pound shops. Just a so called innocent purchase by a thug, who knows what may happen after that sale. I wonder if the authorities are looking into things from this perspective.

Russell
 
I asked an American seller the other day for postage to the UK for a Rat 3 and was told that he could not sell any knives to ebay in europe.
Our murder rate is nothing to most countrys.
 
Banning the sale of any knives is simply stupid. it will have zero effect on the rate of crimes commited with the use of a knife.
Stupid, grovelling, ill thought-out politicians in Canada imposed mandatory registration of all guns, including even defunctioned museum pieces. the cost of this program is in the billions of dollars. the result of this app. 10 year old legislation has simply been an expense and hassle to law abiding people. not one criminal registered his gun. there are more illegal guns (hand guns, autos.) in Canada than ever. the murder and crime rate involving guns continues to escalate. Vancouver currently is having a murder rate with guns of at least one per day. (that's very high for Canada) none of these crimes has been commited with a registered gun .
roland
 
rprocter said:
Vancouver currently is having a murder rate with guns of at least one per day. (that's very high for Canada) none of these crimes has been commited with a registered gun .
roland
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What!? Do you mean to tell me that none of these criminals is obeying the law? Disgraceful.
 
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