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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NorthKorea, post: 1252372, member: 29643&quot;]Maybe I&#039;m not very good at interpretation of the nuances contained within American standard English, but I&#039;m fairly certain that wikipedia citation states that the contracts are non-enforceable. That would mean that you can&#039;t force the US government to redeem gold certificates. It doesn&#039;t mean you can&#039;t possess the certificates.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for this thread, eBay has a right to operate their business as they see fit. If they aren&#039;t allowing the sale of foodstamps, then they aren&#039;t allowing the sale of foodstamps. It doesn&#039;t matter to the great majority of eBay users whether eBay has a basis for their claim that it&#039;s illegal or not. It&#039;s entirely within their right to refuse service for any reason. The potential loss of revenue from the limited number of &quot;foodstamp collectors&quot; would need to be significant (which it isn&#039;t) in order to offset the cost of having their legal team determine which foodstamps/cards are eligible for sale and which aren&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the letter that was posted by the thread originator didn&#039;t state anywhere that eBay is required by the USDA/SSA/whoever represents the US government to accept the sale of foodstamps on their site. It also did clearly state that the sale of foodstamps is legal. Given the clear acknowledgement that the question was about collecting and selling foodstamps, yet the response only identified the collection as legal, the conservative interpretation would be that the sale/purchase of foodstamps is still illegal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of note, I find it curious that Agent Chan states clearly that the USDA doesn&#039;t keep old examples of foodstamps. If that were the case, how did the USDA donate them to the Smithsonian, per this article on their website?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010/01/0028.xml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010/01/0028.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010/01/0028.xml</a></p><p><a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010/01/0028.xml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010/01/0028.xml" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010/01/0028.xml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010/01/0028.xml" rel="nofollow"></a>Apparently, Agent Chan is in charge of my jurisdiction, so I&#039;d be curious whether the response would be the same if the issue were relayed to Inspector General Fong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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