It made me mad!!!

[Reeve]

Originally Posted by Steve S

I got the same reply lets hope YD people power works

I've heard nothing yet.

[Driftwood]

Originally Posted by Steve S

Unfortunately you would be liable, your bid is your contract on ebay plus those to***rs would then be able to brand you as a non payer and ruin your rep for other bids

Safe diving,
Steve.

It's easy enough to create an anonymous account using say a phoney Yahoo account - no worries about rep then!

[tom]

Originally Posted by Driftwood

It's easy enough to create an anonymous account using say a phoney Yahoo account - no worries about rep then!

Unfortunately it would seem anonymous ebay accounts created using a phoney webmail (e.g. yahoo) addresses require identity verification via either credit card or traceable (e.g. dialup ISP) alternate email account.

(allegedly, all in theory, according to my source, obviously...)

A shame, as it might have been nice to stick an auto-bid with a maximum of say £1000000000000 on each of their auctions...

[Mr T.]

Originally Posted by Lou

Absolutely horrendous. Completely beyond belief.

I am off to try and figure out a way to really, really piss them off......

The sale of such items has to be illegal somehow, or at least some of them. I wonder if the Environmental Investigation Agency would be interested in the link?

Lou

Top approach Lou.

There must be some global/UN/EU/governmental body which might take a keen interest in seeing these people 'change their product lines'?

[CotoChris]

Try the state environmental agency; http://www.state.nj.us/dep/enforcement/ and let's write to them informing the distaste and possible illegalities. I can't find an e-mail though.
Although I have no time for PETA I thought it was a good idea to inform them.

[MartinS]

Chris/All

http://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/dep/contactdep_general.pl

This link will take you to the general contact page, but it's a start. It appears that any question asked will be forwarded to the relevant department - so at least it gets it in the loop.

Like you all, am totally disgusted in the items for sale.

Regards, and dive safe

Martin

[EDIT]
Tried to send the following message, but it needs a US Zip code, even though you can seleck the UK as a country! If anyone can send this, either for themselves or me, please do so - re-word if you feel it needs it.

Hi
I am writing to inform you of a internet site selling items which I (and many others I have spoken to) deem to be of a totally unethical nature, especially the shark and shell items. I would like to draw your attention to this site and strongly hope that you, or the relevant department, can and will stop this sickening, unethical sale of items such as stuffed sharks and conch shells, which I believe are protected under CITES.

The site address is : http://www.sealifegifts.net

I look forward to hearing from you with regards this matter.
Your Faithfully
Martin Swanston

[/EDIT]

[MartinS]

Originally Posted by tom

EDIT: OK, I just emailed PETA with a 'cruelty notification'.

Ditto - I have done the same

[Crisspy Fiver]

Hello Jamie,

Thank you for taking the time to write to eBay with a report.

I have investigated the sellers items and it appears that he is not
actually violating any of our policies. The species of shark that shows
up is not considered endangered nor threatened according to CITES.

Our policy: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/wildlife.html
states that endangered or protected species, or any part of any
endangered or protected species may not be listed on eBay. As this is
not the case with these items, we are unable to take action. The
species that he is advertising for auction is the spiny dogfish which
actually features regularly in European diets.

You can read more about this at:
http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000000279.asp

Thanks again for writing with your concern, and thank you for being part
of the eBay community.

Best wishes,

Andrew Gilbert
eBay Trust and Safety

Well that was the reply I have just got from Ebay. Looks like there is nothing that can be done from this point of view. What is the next step?

Jamie