eBay Bans Jeffrey Dahmer Costumes After Listings Surge Due to Netflix‘s ’Monster’: You Can‘t Sell Items That ’Promote or Glorify Violence’
variety.comZack Sharf Listings for Jeffrey Dahmer costumes on eBay.com are being pulled this Halloween season. The popular e-commerce website has put a ban on Dahmer costumes because they violate its policy on violent and violent criminals, Buzzfeed News confirms.
A surge of listings for Dahmer-related costumes hit the website in the aftermath of Ryan Murphy’s blockbuster Netflix series, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” starring Evan Peters as the serial killer.
As reported by Buzzfeed: “A spokesperson confirmed that the selling platform was actively removing these listings and that they were ‘prohibited,’ although some listings are still active at the time of publication…The company policy states that sellers are banned from listing items that ‘promote or glorify violence’ or are associated with violent individuals, the acts for which they gained notoriety, or crime scenes from the past 100 years.” Variety has reached out to eBay representatives for further comment.
Interest in Dahmer has skyrocketed because of Netflix’s “Monster,” which now trails only “Stranger Things 4” as the streamer’s most-watched English-language original series.
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