I was kicked out of a public library for listing items on E-bay. Is this legal?
I was asked to leave my local library earlier today because I was using the computer to sell items on e-bay. The last I knew the library was open to the public and certainly intended for use by upstanding tax paying citizens such as myself.
To make matters worse, it took about 20 minutes to transport all the items from my truck to the PC area of the library. I carried in 2 full hampers of clothing, 4 aluminum rims for a 1993 Firebird and an old desk – all which I intended to list / sell on E-bay. No sooner did I get 2 items of clothing pictured, description listed and auction posted when the librarian told me I could not sell items on E-bay from the library.
Aside form a rude tone; this librarian demanded I gather my belongings and leave. I asked for an explanation but the only answer I got was “you can’t sell items oh E-bay here”. So my question is – what did I do wrong? I’m a tax paying citizen entitled you use the public library and it’s PCs.
It's hard to know without knowing the library or the library's internet policies, but sometimes libraries receive computers or receive grant funding for their internet computers that restricts how the computers can be used (i.e. they agree that the computers won't be used to make money or for commercial purposes.) Perhaps this is what happened in your case.
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