eBay bans knife sales in UK

As Web User previously reported, eBay will close a loophole that lets surfers in the UK buy illegal knives through the online auction site.

Sellers in the US are able to advertise the knives, including flick-knives, as they are breaking no laws in their own country.

However, such knives are illegal in the UK and the BBC's Watchdog programme found buyers in the UK could quite easily purchase the knives.

Mark Lewis, country manager for eBay UK, said in a statement: "The laws surrounding the sales of knives are extremely complex and so we have decided that the best way to protect our members and achieve the safety guarantees they have come to expect from us is to remove and ban all knives, with the exception of cutlery knives, from our UK and Ireland sites."

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