eBay Classifieds: Stop Live Animal Sales
eBay classifieds provides puppy mills and backyard breeders an online marketplace to carry out their unethical sales, yet eBay claims there are policies in place to protect animals and buyers. Because a federal law loophole requires no USDA regulation for online animal sales, this promise is impossible for eBay to uphold.
TAKE ACTION!
Tell eBay to shut down live animal listings completely or to move toward adoption-only listings via a full Petfinder partnership.
- Sign and share the Change.org petition today.
- Place the widget on your own website or blog.
- Tweet @eBay and tell them to change their ways.
- Write eBay via snail mail:
e-Bay, Inc, 2145 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, California 95125 - Share this post.
WHY IT MATTERS
Puppy mills keep large numbers of dogs in tiny, unsafe, and inhumane cages their whole lives solely for the purpose of churning out litter after litter. These dogs enjoy no companionship, are tragically mistreated and are denied veterinary care. When they are no longer fertile, they are typically killed. These operations produce and sell thousands of puppies with significant health problems each year. eBay is now their national vendor.
According to an email from the Change.org Team:
The USDA recently admitted that they’ve failed to effectively monitor commercial breeders and puppy mills. When it comes to sites like eBay Classifieds, it’s even worse: Breeders who sell directly to customers online aren’t subject to any USDA regulations. … The best chance we have to shut down puppy mills is to hold vendors accountable.
eBay responded to user objections when previously considering selling live animals at auction, cancelling plans to roll out this ability on their site. Let’s stand together and tell eBay we won’t stand for the redirection of these sales to the Classifieds.
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Thank you to Felissa Hadas of Two Little Cavaliers for first shedding light on this issue, and Stephanie Feldstein of Change.org for her subsequent article and petition calling for change to eBay’s live animal policies.
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16 Responses to eBay Classifieds: Stop Live Animal Sales
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This is terrible!! We need to stop this!!!
Ana, this petition has gone completely viral. The message should be loud and clear. Let’s hope eBay responds favorably.
No animal should be sold over the enternet,can E-bay vouch for the animal’s health,shots,and take responcibility for the kind f home the pet gets…
Exactly, Charles. They can’t, and won’t.
Done!
Boycott email until they stop this madness
i meant ebay
I think that’s a great idea, mama girl!
I just signed the petition. (Thanks for making it easy to use!) I’ll be spreading the word too.
Thank you, Peggy!
I totally support this effort, but do not provide my street address to online sites. If you change this policy, I would love to sign this petition.
Sorry to hear that, Dee. So you’re aware, our site never requires a street address. The petition is hosted through Change.org and we’re helping to publicize it for them. You can see their privacy policy for more.
Petitions typically require street addresses to ensure accountability and credibility of signatures. Otherwise, anybody could sign a thousand times using different names just to drive up the numbers. This policy won’t likely change for any credible petition site that’s worth it weight in impact. Petitions that do not make these requirements are often seen as less valid and hold less weight against the issue they fight against.
I had not idea. I knew eBay didn’t allow live animals on their auction site, but they have classifieds to do that? I understand Petfinder is exporting adoptable pets to eBay classifieds to try and “compete” with the breeders, but I’m really disgusted with eBay – some of the breeders aren’t even “registered” so there’s no way to track them.
Thanks for the heads-up on this!
Felissa Hadas, who broke this story among our blogging community, mentions that it’s as if eBay devised acceptance in Classifieds to get a piece of the online animal sales they lost at auction. I think this interpretation could be entirely feasible, although eBay says they are trying to bring people and pets together. It’s always about that bottom line and companies will do anything to make a profit only up until that point when public push-back harms sales. eBay certainly hasn’t made ethical decisions on behalf of animals on their own. It’s only with the pressure of their profit base.
It’s done.
For me and for those I love.
David – Italy
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