EBay is no longer allowing the sale of teacher's editions of textbooks

[ProfessorPlum]

I don't get it - all of their TE's have been pulled.

So now on EBay, you can't buy/sell body parts or Teacher's Editions.

Is this because kids were buying them to cheat? Why ban all of them?

Very weird, but it affects homeschoolers, obviously.

[mzteris]

1. well - there's always

the other "swap sites"... There are some on yahoo and one of the vegetarian sites has one, too. Lots of "groups" have their own sales loops, too.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I would bet it is because kids were buying them to cheat.

When I bought the teacher's edition of my son's math book, I had to have it sent directly to a school, I couldn't receive it at home. Fortunately, I have a friend at the local school and she said I could use her name to order it.

[Book Lover]

3. Because instructors get them for free

And instructors accept them under the agreement that they will not sell them.

on edit: I speak only for college textbooks. I have never worked in el-hi.

[fight4my3sons]

4. Came across this petition

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

[qanda]

5. VegSource has a great Swap Board

You can try over there if you're looking to buy or sale any teacher editions.

[Barking Spider]

6. cheating students = bogus explanation

I don't think I buy the "cheating students" explanation. How many k-12 students are using their credit cards to purchse TE textbooks on ebay?

I can see college students doing it, but how many college texts have a TE? Not many that I know of, but maybe I'm wrong. I have TA'd for a couple of college courses and we were on essentially our own.