Making a profit on the occult arts? Cultivating a loyal customer base for potions, magic spells and psychic readings? Not on EBay, you’re not. 
 
 In its 2012 Fall Seller Update, the online marketplace said it was banning all sales of supernatural goods and services, exiling its witchy and wizardly clientele to the wilds of Craigslist and other Web-based Diagon Alleys. 
 
 Among the prohibited items: “advice; spells; curses; hexing; conjuring; magic services; prayers; blessings; Psychic, Tarot, Reiki, and other metaphysical readings & services; magic potions; healing sessions.” 
 
 EBay representatives did not immediately respond to questions as to why Harry Potter wannabes and other customers of mystical goods were no longer welcome or whether they contributed substantially to EBay transactions. 
 
 [Updated, 12:00 p.m. Aug. 16: EBay said in an email that it regularly reviews categories and updates policies based on customer feedback and was "discontinuing a small number of categories within the larger Metaphysical subcategory." 
 
 Spokeswoman Johnna Hoff said that buyers and sellers have complained to EBay that such transactions "often result in issues that can be difficult to resolve." 
 
 "It's important to note that items that have a tangible value for the item itself and may also be used in metaphysical rites and practices (ie jewelry, crystals, incense, candles, and books) are allowed in most cases," Hoff wrote."] 
 
 Beginning Aug. 30, attempts to list such enchantments for sale will be blocked, according to the website. 
 
 Luckily, Craigslist is still allowing sellers to put up offers such as the one posted last week from Temecula advertising “LOVE SPELLS, MONEY SPELLS and MORE!!” 
 
 The post promises such confidential services as a “Big Booty Spell,” a “Candy Charm,” a “Psychic Vampires Spell,” a “Lemon Curse” and something called a “Binding for the Annoying.” 
 
 The spell-caster, described as “a powerful witch and psychic” with more than “25 years experience in potent magic,” pledges to go to work within 24 hours. Double casts cost $15 while a “super potent triple cast” goes for $20. 
 
 A legal disclaimer at the bottom states that, by law, “spells, readings & paranormal objects are for entertainment purposes only.” 
 
 “You agree that your purchase is subject to your own interpretation & is not a substitute for legal, financial, psychiatric or medical help,” according to the post. “You further agree that we are not responsible or liable for any paranormal activity that will or not occur.” 
 
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 Looking a for a spell that will make your partner lust for you and only you? Or a black magic revenge incantation to curse your enemy? Or maybe a good old- fashioned $51 demon-obliterating potion that promises to "destroy heavy demonic energies, entities, beings and forces" is all you need. 
 
 Come September, though, you'll no longer find these quick fixes on eBay. Beginning Aug.30, the online auction site will ban the sale of curses, spells, hexes, magic, prayers, blessing services, magic potions, healing sessions and more. 
 
 Perhaps it's the intangibility of hexes and curses that makes them tough to host. "EBay regularly reviews categories and updates our policies based on customer feedback," a statement from the company read. "We are discontinuing a small number of categories within the larger metaphysical subcategory, as buyers and sellers have told us that transactions in these categories often result in issues that can be difficult to resolve." 
 
 Ebay, which owns PayPal, is one of the largest auction websites that offers peer-to-peer sales. Last month, the San Jose, Calif., company announced strong second quarter growth: Revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2012, increased 23 percent to $3.4 billion, compared with the same period the previous year. 
 
 The company, whose market cap is more than $58 billion, still has a ton of unusual offerings, ban or no ban on the occult. For $3.5 million, a Florida man is selling the "American Dream," which includes everything he owns. And a glob of glue that looks like Homer Simpson's face went for more than $200,000 last January. 
 
 But the ban on magic potions and curses has some users up in arms. One, writing on the eBay forum, even called the ban discriminatory. 
 
 "Disgusted" wrote: "Ebay bans alternative religious items. But! Not for Christians. Holy water and other sundry 'holy' items are discriminately allowed. … Hm. Let me get this straight. Some guy in Rome wearing long robes can wave his hand over some water and imbue it with something, and then it's very 'powerful?' How is that different from any other magical item previously sold on ebay?…" 
 
 And last week a petition titled " Don't Ban Our Psychics," which has collected more than 800 signatures so far, went up online: "Ebay don't ban our metaphysical services! Fight for the psychics and the Tarot readers, the witches, wiccans, pagans, new age, healers, blessings, spells, voodoo, items of magic and most of all our clients and friends!" 
 
 The question remains: Despite the ban, will you still be able to sell your soul on eBay, as graduate student Hemant Mehta, an atheist, did in 2006?
– Call it a War on Hogwarts—eBay has announced it will no longer allow the sale of hexes and potions, reports the Los Angeles Times. Starting next month, the site's new guidelines also will prohibit the sale of blessings, enchantments, psychic advice, "and other metaphysical readings & services." Such transactions often end up in "issues that can be difficult to resolve," explains a spokeswoman. But witches and warlocks needn't worry too much—more tangible items often used in rites such as crystals are still game. And those who want to sell their magic can head over to Craigslist, where postings still offer "Big Booty Spells" and "Candy Charms." ABC News rounds up some criticism of the new rules, including one user's complaint that Catholic holy water still makes the cut.