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Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

2006-09-08T09:14:13-06:00

And if you are looking for teacher's editions for homeschooling purposes, inquire with some professors at your local community college. My wife recently brought home 100+ volumes in various subjects from her college here in Nevada. The professors get new editions constantly and the old ones generally are thrown away. Jess (my wife) was collecting them for a group that supplies books to schools in Africa. We went through and picked out a dozen to add to our homeschooling library or to replace editions we no longer wanted.

Richard

Statistics: Posted by Monk — Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:14 am

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

2006-09-07T21:26:38-06:00

I wasn't sure if was OK to list some of the venues where regular eBay sellers have gone, but here are some suggested sites to find used curriculum:

www.thislittlepiggystayshome.com
www.blujay.com
www.wagglepop.com
www.schoolbookauction.com
www.homeschoolbid.com
www.onlineauction.com
www.childrensbookmarket.com
www.homeschoolclassifieds.com
http://froogle.google.com/

I hope this helps in your quest for teacher materials!

Statistics: Posted by sweet_acacia_mom — Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:26 pm

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

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Statistics: Posted by Mark — Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:06 am

Re: Other places to buy and sell TE's

2006-09-03T09:04:05-06:00

Statistics: Posted by Mark — Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:04 am

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

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Statistics: Posted by Lorren — Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:54 pm

Other places to buy and sell TE's

2006-08-07T13:47:00-06:00

A lot of ebay sellers are now using thislittlepiggystayshome.com to sell their teachers editions.

Statistics: Posted by Caprice64 — Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:47 pm

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

2006-08-07T08:35:27-06:00

Why not give us a list of the alternate locations, then

Statistics: Posted by Theodore — Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:35 am

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

2006-08-06T23:30:33-06:00

I bought a teacher's edition a couple weeks ago... it wasn't listed as a teacher's edition though. They just listed the name of the curriculum and provided a picture of the book. In the small picture you could only tell that it was a teachers edition because of the spiral binding, in the larger picture you could see "teacher's edition" written in small letters in the corner.

I suppose that people will find workarounds like this until they completely crack down and figure out the tricks . Oh well, I guess they'll just lose out on our business.

Kind of a stupid policy considering that anybody can purchase these things at any number of other locations on the internet.

Statistics: Posted by Lorren — Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:30 pm

Teacher Edition Ban

2006-07-06T21:36:02-06:00

I received an email from Ebay today that they had removed a Teacher Key and Solution Key for 9th grade algebra and that they had notified the bidders of the situation. I sent a reply email explaining to them that parents of home schooled students needed these aids in order to provide adequate instruction to their children. They replied that even though the owners of these books might be able to sell them legally, they were standing by their policy not to sell Teacher Editions, Teacher Keys, Test Keys or Quiz Keys because some of the publishers had complained.

After discussing this with my wife and looking over all of the other "Keys" still available on Ebay, I decided to send them another email to let them know that I had 13 items (10 with bids) listed as "packages", (not Teacher or some other "Key") but that there were Test, Teacher and Quiz Keys in the description. I wanted them to tell the bidders (after they removed the listing) that I would list the items again following the Ebay policy (which I can't find).

Sadly, I had already been removed from Ebay. I can't log in, all of my items are off of the site and they haven't responded to my email (nor do they list a phone number to contact them with). This was within 30-45 minutes of their first email.

So, I went back in as a buyer and searched for Teacher Key, Teacher Edition, Test Key and Quiz Key...there's still alot of them there.

This was my first time to try to sell anything on Ebay...didn't go too well.

Statistics: Posted by binarymagician — Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:36 pm

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

2006-07-01T12:38:48-06:00

I am disapointed in ebays decision re: TE textbooks. I think you can still use amazon and Craigslist though. We aslo have a homeschool book store locally that will buy your stuff and then you can buy more or take the money. Don't know if they give a fair deal or not.
Heather

Statistics: Posted by hadaville — Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:38 pm

The eBay Ban and How Families Can Respond

2006-06-13T17:27:23-06:00

The eBay policy:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/tea ... ition.html

The petition if you disagree with this policy:

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/te4sale

Here is a group to help families sell their used materials by providing a list of venues and tons of suggestions. The members are very helpful and supportive. We do not endorse any one site over another, we just offer helpful advice and a safe place to discuss your options.

Anyone who has sold on eBay in the past and is looking for some other ideas, please join us:

http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/teachers_editions

Statistics: Posted by sweet_acacia_mom — Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:27 pm

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

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Statistics: Posted by judygray842 — Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:35 am

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

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Statistics: Posted by Theodore — Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:07 am

Ebay bans teacher edition textbooks?

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Statistics: Posted by judygray842 — Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:44 pm

Re: Ebay is discriminating aganst homeschoolers:

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Statistics: Posted by Theodore — Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:01 pm