Once again, let us make our position clear - we’re not aiming to impede on your individual freedoms to conduct personal trade, but we are enforcing that Pixar Planet is not the suitable avenue to do so. What you do on eBay or other trading sites is up to you, and we do not wish to get involved with any particular trade in question, but we are enforcing our rules as a practical way of asserting that we are not the suitable avenue for trade, in line with our mission to create a safe and relevant community.
We absolutely did not question the legitimacy of auction sites like eBay, but being passively or actively affiliated with ‘replica’ merchandise (unsanctioned by The Walt Disney Company) is a legal puddle for us which goes against our mission. Whatever the relationship is between Disney, eBay, and replica listings, it does not interest us - our interests is what happens within the Pixar Planet Network. Even with no financial gain, there is still a process of an exchange of goods of monetary value during a trade, a legally grey area for us. We are taking a conservative approach on this as we do not have the legal resources nor will to support any form of trading. We have said this before and I would like to repeat this again on behalf of the Pixar Planet Network.
I’d like to remind everyone about two of our rules here, in addition to the referenced No Trading rule:
I understand the personal grievances of this disputed rule but I’d like to remind you that Pixar Planet is made up of volunteers that are giving up personal time & energy to create a safe, harmonious & friendly community. I remind you to write your messages with civility and with relevance.
This thread is designated for discussion of Toy Story Replicas. We have discussed our aforementioned rule quite enough, and we’d like to push this thread back on-topic.
If you have any further grievances, please do no longer discuss them here. You are welcome to PM any of us staff if you have any more concerns, but we will be enforcing this rule with no exceptions.
On-topic rules do now strictly apply to this thread, and any off-topic remarks, including discussion of the No Trading rule, made within this thread will be subject to standard moderator action.
These will be our final remarks in relation to our No Trading rule.
Thank you.
