BEIJING, Dec. 21(Xinhuanet)-- Internet auction site eBay has scrapped plans to allow live pets to be sold on its website after receiving thousands of angry letters from users.

The company has long banned the sale of live animals except fish and snails. Over the weekend, an eBay manager revealed in a posting to an online message board that the company was mulling removal of the ban, prompting letters from more than 2000 users, most of whom urged that the ban remain, said company spokesman Hani Durzy.

"The feedback was pretty overwhelming," Mr Durzy said."Farms and for-profit commercial breeders wasn't something that they wanted to see."

Booming sales of pet supplies- and the possibility that users may want a pet listing service- had prompted the company to reconsider its ban on the sale of live animals, he said. Enditem

(Agencies)