The great and powerful internet auction house eBay has henceforth banned all sales of wizardly enchantments and magic spells, even if you have a vacuum cleaner’s worth of gold to offer.
Indeed, the company knows not what it does, unaware that the hour of the dragons grows near. Not only has eBay banned the sale of spells, but it has also prohibited the sale of potions. Yes, that even includes the +2 Potion of Dragonslaying — the fools! Psychic readings are similarly forbidden.
Read more at http://www.tecca.com/news/2012/08/15/ebay-magic-potion-psychic-reading-ban/#HhbovxHjcM6L82FJ.99
Tecca: Alas! eBay to ban sale of magic spells, potions
See also: Square prohibits its service from being used for “occult materials.”
August 16, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Emphasis added. Refusal to allow prayers to be sold will be contested. It will also set a precident for other commercial prayer enterprises.
September 3, 2012 at 5:55 am
I’m not anti-occult (I think there’s something to it, and I respect several people who are involved with it) but MANY so called “occult practitioners” are scam artists, and nothing more. “Madam Rosa” will sell you a “haunted genie shoe” for $100. “Master Mysteria” will hex your ex by reciting words from an ancient Babylonian prayer tablet, for $200. The WORST thing that these folks claim that they can sell is PRAYER. Prayer is dialogue between God (or the Gods) and individuals who pray as individuals or in the context of a group. People CAN pray for others, but the implication that MONEY will make 3rd party pryers more effective, cheapens prayer and makes a mockery of deity. Some Christian groups also ask for “offerings” (PAYMENT) from cancer stricken people and the like, offering to pray for them. This is bull. God/the Gods connect with us directly.