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sanctum_sanctorum · ‎05-03-2023

The United States is in a war by proxy with Russia. Why does Ebay allow buying and selling with the country ? It should be prohibited.

richard1rst · ‎05-03-2023

Actually the United States is NOT at war with Russia (a "war of words" doesn't really count). And I personally am definitely not at war with Russia nor any specific Russian citizen.

Why should we be punished for the folder-all of the pig heads of the world.

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand

dbfolks166mt · ‎05-03-2023

To the best of my knowledge eBay has modified every sellers, at least those on the US domain, to exclude the Russian Federation and the Ukraine as shipping destinations. However, this may not stop Russian buyers from utilizing FF's either in the US or in China to route their purchases through. With FF'ers eBay is checking the shipping address of the buyer, which of course shows as US, not the registered address and it is a loophole that I believe Russian buyers can exploit.

As far as the financial piece I am not sure of the complexities associated with that as far as the Russian buyers being able to pay for their purchases given all the sanctions a lot of the financial institutions have imposed.

As for the Russian sellers it's bit of a similar situation. While you may not be able to buy directly from a Russian seller where the items are located in Russia I don't believe there is anything stopping the Russian sellers from setting up a warehouse facility in the US and selling in that manner. Again items could flow into the US through China or other FF operations. Also not sure how the financial aspects of that would work unless maybe they have setup a US or other bank account to receive the payouts.

slippinjimmy · ‎05-03-2023

@sanctum_sanctorum wrote:
The United States is in a war by proxy with Russia. Why does Ebay allow buying and selling with the country ? It should be prohibited.

Find me a listing on .com that allows shipping to Russia, then find me a listing from a Russian based seller.

eBay has blocked all transactions involving Russia since March 2022.

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richard1rst · ‎05-03-2023

@slippinjimmy wrote:
@sanctum_sanctorum wrote:
The United States is in a war by proxy with Russia. Why does Ebay allow buying and selling with the country ? It should be prohibited.
Find me a listing on .com that allows shipping to Russia, then find me a listing from a Russian based seller.

eBay has blocked all transactions involving Russia since March 2022.

What he said:

Although I have to wonder. I have never put any restrictions on worldwide shipping. So why Is Barbados on this list (they are a stable democracy) and Cuba and North Korea are not?

Libya and Venezuela I can understand but what is our beef with France: French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Reunion - why are they on the list?

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand

reallynicestamps · ‎05-03-2023

Cuba and North Korea have longstanding embargos.

I can't even sell pre-revolutionary Cuban stamps here on eBay. Ditto Iran/Persia.

The block on Ukraine is more likely because dealing with any country under attack and in a hot war is going to make commerce difficult.

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ckimodog · ‎05-03-2023

@sanctum_sanctorum

I believe they are temporarily suspended from selling here on Ebay. Both Russia and the Ukraine. Hope that makes you feel better.

sanctum_sanctorum · ‎05-03-2023

I said "war by proxy" and that describes the situation precisely. Proxy war - Wikipedia

slippinjimmy · ‎05-03-2023

I think the non-embargoed countries are on the list because delivery to those countries is currently very sketchy at best (Covid leftovers).

One thing that is odd is that the restricted country list is not consistent, The list on eBay.ca is somewhat different, same goes for other eBay sites.

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Into your life it will creep

inhawaii · ‎05-03-2023

I think the Russian people should be able to buy and sell here.

A majority of them don't support the war.

Vladimir Putin himself should definitely be banned.

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sanctum_sanctorum · ‎05-03-2023

Here are Russian produced products being sold from Ukraine and other countries. publius figures for sale | eBay

movieman630 · ‎05-03-2023

We're basically at war with China too...

ten_o_nine · ‎05-03-2023

Embargoed or non-embargoed, the real victims are the people, most countries know how to work around embargos. hmmm, let me think of one embargo that worked, Iran? Cuba? Afghanistan? Crimea? Belarus? Libia? what about the ones that didn't work?