Uk safety laws are wierd
Summary: The discussion about UK safety laws being weird is initiated by everydaybiker69, but none of the participants provide any specific details or context in their responses. Despite various responses from different participants such as kensgiftshop, eoma689485, and others, the conversation lacks substantive content, leaving the topic unexplored.
Hello whoever, I had a cordless extendable hedge trimmer, brilliant, lightweight, adjustable, I lent it to a friend, it got stolen, so I tried to replace it through Ebay, except, apparently I have to have a credit card to prove I'm 18 or over, I don't have one, I don't want one, but without one I might use this "Bladed device" to stab anyone who annoys me, (go figure), my debit card isn't good enough, nor are my driving licence, or bus pass, (I'm 75), something's ridiculous about this, of course even if I wanted to get a credit card to simplify buying restricted stuff, (I don't) I can't get one cos I'm retired, gon't have the income you see, so here I sit, stuffed, and annoyed. answers anyone?
Oh yes, and if you try to ask the Ebay AI, it'll send you around on the standard wild-goose-chase, log into your information page, click on your date-of-birth and simply update it, SPOILER ALERT, it ain't there. So, answers which actually work, anyone?
wandering-stars
·4 months agoBarclaycard let me have a credit card when my original retirement income was only £8000 a year. (early retirement before state pension age).
I changed banks after a banking nightmare during a server move from the bank I was with hence didn't have the credit card from the previous bank either any more because I was so disenchanted with them I shut everything down, and the bank I moved to wouldn't issue a credit card for what I was receiving in private pension then.
Barclaycard did though.
roccotacodad54
·4 months ago" I lent it to a friend, it got stolen, so I tried to replace it"
Maybe cultural norms are way different in your locale but in my neck of the woods replacing it is on the friend that borrowed it.
If your friend hasn't offered.........................?
stephenmorgan
·4 months agoI would suggest to my friend that they need to replace the item.
Is you friend able to deal with eBay and do they have a Credit Card?
If you found one on eBay that would be an agreeable replacement then maybe point your friend to eBay.
gosimus
·4 months ago@everydaybiker69
< So, answers which actually work, anyone? >
Bike on down to the nearest B & Q and buy one across the counter.
kathiec
·4 months ago@everydaybiker69
You complaining to eBay about this is much like buyers in the US complaining that eBay collects the state sales tax they're legally required to. Nothing eBay can do about it. Complain to your UK lawmakers.
The only answers I have to offer are 1) stop lending things to friends and 2) buy the item locally.
eoma689485
·4 months agoForgot to mention - a cordless extendable hedge trimmer, brilliant, lightweight, adjustable - seems benign enough until one day you read about some middle school age child picking it up and causing havoc - then a credit card as proof of being an adult makes sense.
marnotom!
·4 months agoI wouldn't put it past the UK Dennis the Menace to try such a stunt.
everydaybiker69
OP4 months agoThat would be fine if I could get one, small pension income means I can't, hence, painted up a corner, again!
soh.maryl
·4 months agoShouldn't your friend take a little responsibility and offer help in this situation?
eoma689485
·4 months agoYou posted on eBay dot com, the American site, so sign out, head back to eBay U.K and sign back in. There you may find answers.
kensgiftshop
·4 months agoAsk the law makers in the UK.