eBay has strict policies against selling KKK and Nazi items. They don't mind witch items at all, antique, ancient, modern, Wiccan, whatever. :) In any case, the person who first started this thread gave us not the eBay auction number, but rather the illustration page that the eBay auction referred to, which is a smaller auction site for several different vendors. The way I went about this was to leave a note in the comment form there that assumed the vendor was innocent, but explaining the KKK symbology and that they could check on it with any reference librarian. Whew! After the holidays, I'm going to be writing about my Salem ancestress! I'm done for now... happy new year, all. At 01:56 AM 12/21/02, VelvetDove2002@aol.com wrote: >Ebay is an online auction... if you want to complain some more, email the >person that has the item up for bidding...go directly to the source and tell >them you are going to report them if they do not take off the "Salem Witch" >on the subject line of their item... If they then do not do anything,,, then >send a email petition straight to ebay themselves.. call them on the phone >one day, they have a service number.. But If you have not directly contacted >the person who has the item up for bid, then going to ebay first might not >help much... ebay cannot tell someone to change something... people have >tried this on ebay before.. if you tell them to take off the part of the >Salem Witches... then ebay might say "Well... The Salem Witches are >offending to other people.. so we might ban the sale of all things to do with >it, also..and ban selling of the KKK items.. they both offend people so we >will get rid of them both.." an occurance like that has happened with them >before... so be careful... our ancestors in Salem were not bad people... > but some people are offended by them just as some people are offended by > the >Ku Klux Klan... the KKK and the Salem Witches are both someone's family >heritage.. Maybe the person who has the items on ebay honestly do not know >what they have for sale... Look at the situation from everyone's point of >view.. I do not want this to end with ebay banning the sale of Salem Witch >items.. but.. it may happen...