Lawn Darts For Sale ? (SO IT SEEMS) --- BUT NOT BY ME!

[Steve King (Admin)]

Well, well, well.  It seems that Ebay is not being quick enough to spot people still using an old, old trick to sell lawn darts.  Now, I don't sell anything related in the lawn darts realm anymore since the CPSC cracked down on me years ago (don't wanna go through that headache again), but the old trick used to be to go to Ebay and sell an empty box.  It was one of many loopholes in the law, since the ban wasn't on the box, but rather the game itself.   The empty box wasn't always empty when you received the package in the mail though.  That is what sellers would have had to do back in the day to get around the Ebay ban on selling them.  Well, I just checked tonight and people are still doing that, lol (or so it seems).   Here, see for yourself:


rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574657957&toolid=10001&campid=5335904351&customid=&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_odkw%3Dlawn%2Bdarts%2BBox%26_sac%3D1%26LH_BIN%3D1%26_osacat%3D220%26_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xlawn%2Bdarts%2Bbox.TRS0%26_nkw%3Dlawn%2Bdarts%2Bbox%26_sacat%3D220


If you don't see them listed, then maybe Ebay removed them.  They are usually pretty quick about it.   BUT periodically at the above link you may will see people trying to sneak 'em by Ebay  (NOT ME, NO WAY!).  If the boxes are listed as a buy it now, then the buyers sometimes are faster than Ebay is in removing the sale.   In that aspect the buyer got one over on them.    People that listed them via the auction format was a bad idea since Ebay had time to remove the listing.   BIN though was an instantaneous sale (I counted 15 different Sold Listings within the past month on Ebay's "sold" section, so Ebay was a bit too slow to react on those BIN sales).     Ebay usually removes the listing within a few hours.      It's really a race on who is faster:  Ebay, the seller or the buyer.