Where to report a seller with porn magazines and barbie dolls in same store?

[krys888]

As a parent and grandparent, I have a real problem with this. Listing children’s toys and porn magazines in the same store is unacceptable. Did a search for a particular Barbie doll. Found one. Considered purchasing it. Looked to see what else the seller had for possible savings on multiple items shipping. I was disappointed to find among more Barbie dolls there were human porn magazines with extremely graphic covers. If ebay is allowing and promoting this mix of children’s toys and porn, I can’t sell here any more. 

[krys888]

That’s funny.

[krys888]

Wanted to be clear that they weren’t barbie porn magazines.

[chapeau-noir]

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@andrew547 wrote:

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@krys888 wrote:

I was disappointed to find among more Barbie dolls there were human porn magazines with extremely graphic covers. 

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Human porn magazines?

Ya stumped me there.

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As opposed to robot porn, and you DO NOT want to go there, trust me on that.

[krys888]

As a buyer of collectibles, I always look at the sellers other items before buying if I’ve not bought from them before because often times you can tell a lot about the potential of an item based on their overall store. Collectibles are often stinky from storage, from plastics breaking down, mustiness from humidity — all things you can’t see in a listing photo. So you can prowl around their other listings to get a sense of the overall environment, etc. I was ready to buy the doll until I went to their store! Ew. All I could think at first was, I don’t know where that doll has been. LOL. No thank you!

[andrew547]

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@krys888 wrote:

Wanted to be clear that they weren’t barbie porn magazines.

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(checks url to make sure I'm not at The Onion)

[chapeau-noir]

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@andrew547 wrote:

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@krys888 wrote:

Wanted to be clear that they weren’t barbie porn magazines.

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(checks url)

Making sure I'm not at the onion.

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These days it seems like everything is The Onion - half the news stories I read I have to double check.

[turquoisetulips]

Naked people are not porn. We are all naked under our clothes. That’s why certain years of Playboy are not required to be in the adult category. the dog ate my homework 

What the OP seen  was a tad  more graphic than Playboy    from what she's reported .  When it comes to the subject  of graphic porn   most people  seem reluctant to think outside of the box  .  There's a very seedy world  going on behind the production   of hard core porn .  Most people either don't realize that or they just don't care . A whole lot of it stems from the  human sex traffic problem  , runaway underage  girls , drug addiction , prostitution and  a history of sexual abuse . It has nothing to do with Playboy ,,  but instead  often very short lives of misery . Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

Naked people are not porn. We are all naked under our clothes. That’s why certain years of Playboy are not required to be in the adult category. the dog ate my homework 

What the OP seen  was a tad  more graphic than Playboy    from what she's reported .  When it comes to the subject  of graphic porn   most people  seem reluctant to think outside of the box  .  There's a very seedy world  going on behind the production   of hard core porn .  Most people either don't realize that or they just don't care . A whole lot of it stems from the  human sex traffic problem  , runaway underage  girls , drug addiction , prostitution and  a history of sexual abuse . It has nothing to do with Playboy ,,  but instead  often very short lives of misery . Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

Especially those who are survivors of childhood sexual assault who recognize the toy connection... krys888 

Yes and that's the worrisome part of it all .. I'd say someone is trying to promote  something they shouldn't  on e bay . I realize most people only give stuff like this a casual thought once in awhile and then shrug it off  . However  if they understood  what curtails    behind the production  of smut  they would realize many lives  have been ruined in its wake .  Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

 My village raised me well but did not direct me to join the eBay police.  upgradedenmills 

A person  doesn't need to join the e bay police  just to have a good sense of right and wrong .. It is really okay  to look at something and then be able to call it by its right name . Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

While  people are at  it ,, it wouldn't hurt to look up some FBI stats  on the subject of hard core pornography   and  sexual  assualt .  Tulips 

[coolections]

OP, you will need o return and tell us if the items are listed in the adult section. If they are then there is nothing wrong with what they are doing. Seller do not need a separate ID for that. The only reason you would see that stuff is if you've told Ebay you are over 18. Anyone who clicks that they are over 18 and are wiling to view such things can do so. If they are not listed in the adult section then there is a problem. Come back and let us know the real story.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@andrew547 wrote:

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@krys888 wrote:

Wanted to be clear that they weren’t barbie porn magazines.

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(checks url to make sure I'm not at The Onion)

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On my ID that makes and sells doll clothes, one of my customers started making special requests ("Could you make that dress in black? And with lace? And..."), and I learned that there are people who make, um, scenes and dioramas with dolls that you do not want the grandchildren to see. Relatively harmless when compared to "human" stuff. So unless your Barbie is MIP, you really don't know where she's been.

[fern*wood]

That request doesn't surprise me at all.  Don't get me wrong, I had a Barbie doll when I was young too, but the mere appearance makes it easy to see the connection between Barbies and sexual fetishes.    To many, these dolls do not appear as toys in the same way baby dolls do. 

[upgradedendmills]

tulips, your replies to some of these posts could make someone think that you have personal experience with some of the underlying issues of the OP's post and are on a crusade. That's fine and admirable, but this is probably not the right forum for it.

     We don't know how the items in question were listed. If they were all listed together on the adults only category where you would have to sign in and search them out, that's one thing. If they were listed under toys or dolls where there is general access or they would show up in a random search, they should be pulled immediately.

     I feel that this discussion board should be used to help answer any and all questions about selling on eBay, but never as a crusade for personal agendas. 

[a_c_green]

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@fern*wood wrote:

That request doesn't surprise me at all.  Don't get me wrong, I had a Barbie doll when I was young too, but the mere appearance makes it easy to see the connection between Barbies and sexual fetishes.    To many, these dolls do not appear as toys in the same way baby dolls do. 

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"Yes, my daughter has a Barbie doll. And not just any Barbie doll: It's a Republican Convention Delegate Barbie. Really. She's wearing a business suit and has a little delegate credential around her neck. In other respects she's a regular Barbie, by which I mean she has an anatomically impossible figure and enough hair to be a fire hazard.

Republican Convention Delegate Barbie was given to my daughter by a woman I know who is connected with the Mattel company, which made a limited number of Republican and Democratic Barbies that were given to the delegates last year at both political conventions.
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In case you were wondering (and you know you were): Republican Convention Delegate Barbie does not wear a brassiere. I will not go into details here, except to say that if real Republican convention delegates looked like this Barbie, Bill Clinton would definitely have changed parties."

-- Dave Barry; Weekly Column; June 10, 2001