You cant sell Spirituality or Faith........


Or can you?

I bought a 'reading' from a fortune teller on Ebay, who said my mother-in-law would die in a terrorist attack at The London Olympics. So I bought her a ticket.

I'm still waiting for my refund.

I suggest you do your own tarot or runes, you will get a more accurate reading using your own energy.

Love and harmony
Whateva

Originally posted by CaptainBeno
So a bit like religion then..................I guess they should ban the sale of the bible and other religious documentation because it's highly unproven?

Not quite the same, because a Bible is a physical object. That means it's possible to prove whether or not the buyer received it.
The point is not whetrher the theory is provable, but the straightforward business problem of whether reception of the purchased goods is provable.
If it's any consollation, they would probably include ecclesiatical blessings and sales of holy water in the ban, on the same principle; that the state of holiness can't be adequately proved for resolving dispiutes.

Originally posted by AutOmatIc


Dang you beat me to it. Yep, this opens the door to ban such things as prayer books and other religious items that promise results through faith or belief by the buyer that they actually work. Which is an unprovable "intangible" .

No, it doesn't. Why is reading comprehension so terrible on ATS as of late.

A prayer BOOK is a physical ITEM. I can put it in a box, ship it via UPS, and it will arrive at your doorstep. You open box, have physical good.

A spell or a card reading is NOT.

eBay is tired of all the nutters filing claims with eBay because they didn't receive their "item" which isn't an item at all, which is the problem. I don't blame eBay in the least here. I would love to though, as I hate eBay. But I have my standards and won't bash an entity for doing the right thing just because I don't like them.

The banning of Tarot cards being sold on ebay.........

You thought they would have seen that coming.................

I never understood people that would sell magick.

If I want something, I pretty much get it.

Why would I SELL a spell to someone else, so that I could then get money, and go buy something?
I just get it.
Never understood that.
Some things I can't get right. But why would I buy a spell from someone else knowing they probably are worse at magick than I am if they are having to sell spells to get money or stuff?

This is my train of thought on this. I'm pagan and I am ok with eBay stopping it. I think it's all phoney anyway.

Now, I have bought psychic readings sometimes. It seems a fun way to give someone a bit of money, see what they do. For my real psychic readings, I sit down with my dear friend or husband, and we work on them together. They still don't work like we'd want them to. A lot of times they do, but it's only evident a LONG time later. It hurts my head and usually I don't really want to know. Why would I sell that?
I might buy one though, just to put someone else on the spot, and maybe pay to get a stranger to consider my problems, which might actually be of magickal use to me. IE, one of my favorite ways to get some luck, is to make someone else lucky.

Darn, having a magickal belief system is NOT easy in a society that hates the idea of it, thinks it is crazy and is simply incapable of thinking in the circles it takes to maintain what I think of as a crazy, but wonderful thing.

I can just imagine people buying a spell to get money from a 'witch' that is selling a spell to get money.
Selling magick is not spiritually cool in my mind....it is all ripe for just another form of usury and I don't approve of that. Everyone should do their own or freely help those in need.

The worst thing is when strangers knock at your door wanting magick. Go get me the eye of a 3 toed frog born on the 1st of May under a blue moon and we can get that done. I'm sure that's how a lot of that got started.