Comments on: Google, eBay Bans Sale of Human Remains & Body Parts

By: Accident at work

Accident at work — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:22:39 +0000

The answer to that question is yes. I have seen a human fetus in a jar on sale on eBay. Needless the say the listing was promptly pulled, but apparently people will sell anything.

By: Rob Tucker

Rob Tucker — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:22:58 +0000

Do a search on ebay for real human skull .

As you can see there are body parts for sale, check in the completed listings and you will see that some sales are made succesfuly.

So if anything, there is lip service.

Ebay have not banned the sale of body parts.

By: Pete Smith

Pete Smith — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:10:33 +0000

I would love to sell my bodyparts on ebay or google, I could have some fun with the money first, and then at a set date, say 4 weeks later off myself, and everyone gets their body parts.. It is win win.

By: rmp mlm

rmp mlm — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:29:30 +0000

That’s t. Patrick, you always stand out of the blogger crowd with different research posts. Keep’em up!

By: Shoom

Shoom — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:06:39 +0000

They have, that’s why the rules exist in the first place. People used to use eBay as a black market for kidney sales. This is to thwart people profiting off patients on a wait list that happen to have an excess of money available. It may seem strange, but it’s definitely a necessary addendum to the ToS.

By: Jim McDish

Jim McDish — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:48:58 +0000

Yawn, leave it to Google and Ebay to take the fun out of everything! LOL JT Ultimate Anonymity

By: Shailesh Ghimire

Shailesh Ghimire — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:50:52 +0000

Pretty interesting that you read through their terms of service. Those things are usually pretty hard to read. You hear of folks trying sell kids on eBay, so I guess there are people out there who would try to sell human remains I guess.

By: lu mcinturff

lu mcinturff — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:42:48 +0000

There are a lot of people who would gag at the thought of someone selling human body parts; but they would never think a thing about going to a museum – just to see the same. In the United States, a Federal ACT called NAGPRA (Native American Grave Protection Repatriation Act)has had to be established and then each State has instituted their own add-on to that Act. Years ago, I remember seeing a baby bootie – beaded on teh bottom – with a bone sticking from it for sale online. It took a lot of people to start chasing those things down.

Lots of people would go wandering near the deserts in this country, and will find pottery chards, arrow heads, old beads – all in the same locale – pick them up and say, “Oh Kewl!” without ever giving a thought to those old movies which shows the Indian hoisted into the air on platform after passing. Those items are called “Funerary” as they were “buried” with that person.

While you may consider it strange and bizarre, you prolly would not give a second thought into walking into a Museum that has gone in some non-Christian grave some where and placed those bones on display.

Thanks for the post.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:20:04 +0000

The answer to that question is yes. I have seen a human fetus in a jar on sale on eBay. Needless the say the listing was promptly pulled, but apparently people will sell anything.

And no, I wasn’t looking for anything like this. It was under Seller’s Other Items.