eBay Ban Boosts Sales of Confederate Flag Merchandise

by: toolguy

It appears that Google "shopping" has also banned listings of the flag.

I don't own one but that's my own choice.  

by: Basset

Not affected. Never have listed or owned anything like that.


What I think of the ban is: Bans should make people THINK.


Disclosure:  Before this week, if I were given a ''free association'' test and a confederate flag photo was presented, my answer would have been ''Dukes of Hazard''  Telling signs of a child who grew up in the television age.  

Hmm...

Will eBay's ban cover ''Them Dukes''?  I notice there are still several listings with Dukes and General Lee stuff.  

Ban General Lee Lunchboxes but maybe limit listings to those rear-view shots of Daisy?  Still NOT offensive to portray women as an object - for now.


Slippery Slope, it is.

by: rhawk

We have a president and several politicians now telling America what is and is not offensive.

Corporations are following suit.

Welcome to Marxism.

by: Orwellwasright

Absolutely disgusting

The Book burners , and those who would eviscerate our history have won again

This is a disgrace. And its avalanching out of control, for those of you who are unaware this has been a MAJOR dream of the neofascists for decades. There have been numerous lawsuits and campaigns to remove the confederate flags from public venues for years

Now they have succeeded (as though carefully planned) beyond their wildest dreams

Not only will these flags be taken down from public venues, but now the image itself is being scrubbed from all areas of our culture (hello orwell)

Aside from removing all merchandise from seemingly all venues everywhere, and entertainment companies removing licensing from such shows as Dukes of Hazard, now the next phase is coming to bear

There is talk of tearing down all statutes and memorials to confederate generals, and renaming street and governmental properties
such as airports, named after anyone affiliated with the confederacy

This is truly sickening, to see how fast and well organized this campaign has gotten out of control

History will be wiped clean....

How about collectibles affiliated with confederacy/ Medals ? Uniforms ? paper Money?

If southerners are the new Nazis its only logical

What next?
How about banning all Magazines, and movies where women are exploited? (already in force in some euro nations)

How about banning all Magazines, and movies deemed rascist?

if you think that's impossible, you're mistaken. The precedent has been set, Wait for the next wave

Shame on Both ebay and Amazon for their disgusting cowardice and Hypocrisy

How many Millions of items referring to Manson or Hitler or Stalin are currently on ebay /

Those disappear next?

Ebay and amazon have steered onto a Dangerous road.

by: iheartjacksparrow

Warner Bros. just announced they are pulling their licenses for General Lee die cast and models. I wonder what all my old Dukes memorabilia is worth now.

by: Basset

Well, the newly listed General Lees are considerably higher than the ones that were there when I looked earlier. Still a few lower cost BINs.  Interesting to look at the ''Solds''.  

May be interesting to sit back and observe.

by: sasikat9

So I guess my question is.....If the idiot who did the shooting in the church was posing with a confederate flag, if he had been posing with an american flag would that be banned also.

Seems like knee jerk reaction again.  Just like Obama and his gun control. The only time you really hear anything is when someone shoots someone.

Just have to believe that there is a whole lot more problems than some flag flying.

by: Basset

Orwell & sasikat,  Slippery Slope - as slippery as  Clark Griswald sledding on that specially treated saucer clipping everything in its path and then some.


Not to be outdone while media discuss these events,  the somewhat un-censored ''they who shall not be named''  in foreign lands are finding new ways to use a Go-Pro.

Any of the flags THEY favor on eBay, amazon, google?


Ooohhh... it IS working - I'm afraid to do a search for THOSE flags in case I get myself flagged by the ''ministry of truth''- nsafbihomelandsecuritybig brother.



Well, the cheaper BIN General Lees are flying off the virtual shelves.  Maybe safe to talk about THAT.

by: gizmo

Just more micro managing of our lives. I don't condone , nor approve of this flag.

All the taxes imposed are offensive to me , should we ban our government?.
One bad apple is let to spoil the whole bunch.

This is ignorance on any level. Its part of the USA history. Many parts of our history are offensive , we have not banned our own history. Wake up America , & grow up. I think some people never made it out of Jr. high mentally.

 

by: CypressC

Amazon removed our listing of the Mississippi Flag!!! I know the Mississippi Flag contains a portion of the Confederate flag --- but is the flag of the state of Mississippi now a symbol that glorifies racial hatred?! nd as expected -- my Mississippi flag has been removed, but dozens others remain. Why am I being singled out? I have little faith that the marketplaces will be able to enforce this once people start listing the flags as "Dixie Flags" or "Southern Flags". As it is, you can report Nazi listings on eBay and they will not take them down even after they are reported. Will it be the same here when people find keyword work arounds?

The worst part of it is that tomorrow the Supreme Court will announce its decisions on Obamacare and Gay Marriage... and once those decisions come out, no matter how they rule, the country will forget about Confederate flags but we will still be left damaged as sellers!

by: iheartjacksparrow

Agree with Orwellisright and sasikat9.

Humans are a violent species, and history isn't always pretty. But that doesn't mean a significant event can be obliterated in case someone might be offended. I guess next up we'll be like Montag in Fahrenheit 451, reading Gone With the Wind in secret.

by: Santini

I says we ban COTTON next, that universal fiber of hate & oppression. And all its derivative products!

by: brokentoys19

Good thing it's just the typical, dubiously timed, monkey-see monkey-do kneejerk, politically correct lip service.

Otherwise they would have quite a task on their hands- with all the Hitler, Nazi, Dukes of Hazzard, Johnny Rebel items, not to mention al-queada fundraising items and Pierre's buddies from the Ukranian Right Sector and Svoboda party all hawking wares.

yeah sleazebay, the world is upping their standardss, so up yours.

by: sasikat9

@ Brokentoys19

Ebay has no standards to up. They reside at the lower level of whale crap at the bottom of the sea.

by: nsc

This is how the PC Outrage machine works -- take a moment of popular outrage (for once they didn't have to invent a racist attack, this time there was a real one), and immediately use it for political advantage. To the Left, everything is political. Everything.

by: Katie

I wish we could ban stupidity.
This historical flag did not kill anyone.

by: TIDSdp

Amazon seller blogs all over.... This was our input:

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We do have a ''dog in the fight'' because we sell costumes.

We heard this on National News yesterday, so attempted to remove the ''flag'' from the hats of the ''confederate soldier costumes''.

One, we were successful at, the other we are not the ''contributing'' detail merchant and as such, it was removed today (of course, we have some at FBA and, of course, we'll get to pay the return shipping as well as the original shipping), but what's disturbing is that these were removed WITHOUT any notification or concession to us, the seller.

This was not a restricted product then, nor is it now.

Let me ask you this: If we wipe out our history...... Then since ''those who don't know their history are condemned to repeat it''........ what will our future be?

I am sorry some find it offensive, others believe it was about states rights. The ''evil'' people have made it a bad symbol. But, come on ... on a legitimate ''civil war confederate costume'' (not a ''something to hang on your car or bumper''), is ridiculous. After all, we still teach about the civil war in the US Class rooms. Will we be redoing all of the history books too?

Just wondering - We, small business, should not bear the cost of a political decision.

Amazon is free to make it, but we shouldn't bear the cost of the shipping, (both ways), storage, and now we have inventory that was purchased based upon projections from Amazon sales........

Just not sitting right.....

Thanks for listening.

As for personally, I agree it belongs in the museum as it is ''history''. So why would a costume denoting the era, not be ''approved'' to sell?  

by: toyspast

Well, I'm glad my Dukes of Hazzard General Lee car sold before they took it down! This is ridiculous. This flag is seen differently by different people. Excuse the phrase, but its not black or white. If everyone saw the flag as something that signifies racism, then there might be a point to this, but to some people, it means someone in their family may have fought and died for that flag. It also can mean they loved ''Dukes of Hazzard''. Since its an issue with tons of shades of gray, then leave it be.

by: Mimi

I guess I'm the lone voice of reason here. Or maybe the only one with a biracial grandson. I'm glad they're taking this crap off the shelves, so to speak. It is a symbol of hate, it is offensive. Period. Guess no black people read ecommercebytes.  

by: bitbybit

Anything can become offensive or made into a racial issue. Everyone's perception and opinion is different. Maybe small planes should be banned because of 9/11, maybe white sheets should be banned as well etc etc. None of us were alive when the Civil War happened but we cannot erase history. Yes, it was absolutely horrible what he did but to allow a deranged psychopath to influence the nation to this extent just opens the door for more psychos to want to create their mark in history. By sensationalizing and placing focus on the misuse of a flag from a major American war in history makes everything worse.