Well we are winning for the Bees: Fantastic news. The bee-killer pesticides are off eBay - AGAIN! [1] 62,827 emails (!) from 38 Degrees members pushed eBay into taking action. They even told the 38 Degrees office that they had people in “making manual checks over the weekend” - which for a huge corporation based on fancy technology is extraordinary. Here’s a statement from eBay: “We are still improving our system to catch listings for this issue, and it will get better, but no system is perfect. We will immediately take action against items reported to us. It is our experience that sellers want to comply with the regulations, but often don’t know them so we will educate sellers about the rules too. Thank you for your passion.” Last week it looked as though eBay had acted. 48 hours later the pesticides were back up on their site. [2] But this time, it looks like eBay have actually done the work and fixed the problem. That’s not to say the banned pesticides will never go up for sale again. But eBay sound serious about fixing their systems - and now, eBay know that 38 Degrees members are watching. So, some good news. Until next time, eBay! Thanks for everything you do, Susannah, Maddy, Robin and the 38 Degrees team
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:41:35 +0000
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