@invisilynwrote:
Shallow thinking on your part. Did you ever consider the buyer who READS EVERYTHING AND FULLY INFORMS THEMSELVES prior to buying something....only to receive a wrong/fradulent product? Sounds to me like youre perhaps...a SELLER, YOURSELF...
Youre making comments totally 1 sided...the word FAKE....tells you right there that the buyer has no way of finding out something is FAKE until they receive it RIGHT? My god, do his homework? Last time I checked sellers dont post anywhere that something theyre sending will be different than what the description states....
Shady sellers- making money off of each technicality....DONT STOP AT WHAT A SELLER TELLS YOU, GUYS...just call ebay, explain and if defrauded, theyll see to it you get refunded, losing ZERO $S.
It depends.
I have several fake coins purchased on eBay. All but one of those, I knew they were fake (the listing did not say so), because they were offered from China, at a miniscule fraction of what a real one would be worth, and the thing in the pictures was clearly... fake! In that case, there certainly is a way for the buyer to know, but reporting the listings to eBay is generally useless. I probably could have filed a claim and got my couple of bucks back, but I didn't, I knew what I was buying when I bought it.
Last time I checked sellers dont post anywhere that something theyre sending will be different than what the description states...
True, although the sellers' feedback profiles did in fact state this was likely, their past buyers had indeed posted it somewhere. That's "doing homework", something eBay now discourages.
The other one was purchased from a U.S. seller. In that case you are correct, he'd pictured a genuine item, but he didn't send me what was in the picture. What he sent me was a cheap Chinese replica that was clearly fake. Without tracking. SMH!
Shady sellers- making money off of each technicality....DONT STOP AT WHAT A SELLER TELLS YOU, GUYS...just call ebay, explain and if defrauded, theyll see to it you get refunded, losing ZERO $S.
That is apparently how eBay has chosen to deal with this. If the buyer files a claim and asserts it's fake, they give the buyer 100% of their money back. That's only a small % of the fake items listed, so it's more efficient for eBay that way rather than trying to deal with the listings. Many buyers won't file claims though, and still others will never realize they bought a fake until it's way too late to do anything about it.
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