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Cess pool of Counterfit Motorcraft parts on EBAY
Just wondering if EBAY even cares anymore ? I was looking for some parts for my Ford powerstroke Diesel . I am not a wiz when it comes too sniffing out bogus parts . The sellers are so blatant with the bogus parts , brand new "SUPPOSEDLY OEM MOTORCRAFT" in spanky new packages and they all have one word misspelled on them. made in DEARBOR"M" Michigan so unless they renamed DEARBORN All these parts are bogus on Ebay. I did a random check and found 4 sellers . So much for the ebay police policing their site. Well like the probverb say,"BUYER BEWARE".
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eburtonlab
Mentor11 months agoeBay will take action if buyers file "not as described" returns or if verified rights owners issue take-down notices.
Counterfeit items are not allowed to be listed on eBay at all. No one is authorized to sell counterfeit items. That fact alone does not stop some people from trying to sell them, however.
The problem is that unscrupulous or uninformed sellers can list genuine items and then deliver counterfeit items.
It is not always possible to look at a listing and know in advance exactly what, if anything, the seller intends to deliver. For one thing, a scammer can simply copy a listing from a genuine seller, using a genuine photo of a genuine item.
Except for a few specific categories of items that go through authentication, eBay never sees what the seller ships or the what the buyer receives, so there is nothing for eBay to check unless someone complains about what was received by invoking eBay's money back guarantee.
Sellers are responsible for the descriptions they provide, and buyers should not assume that eBay screens the listings in advance.
As long as counterfeits exist and there are folks trying to sell them, buyers will still have to be on the lookout for them, and avoid deals that are obviously too-good-to-be-true, whether they are being sold by accounts registered overseas or by domestic sellers wittingly or unwittingly buying counterfeits from overseas to sell here.
Buyers that doubt their ability to distinguish a genuine article from a counterfeit one should only consider purchasing from trustworthy sellers that have an established reputation for delivering exactly what was described, and should avoid deals that are too-good-to-be-true, or deals that are offered by inexperienced sellers that might disappear soon after the transaction is made, or else be prepared to get items authenticated by trusted sources within thirty days to be able to take advantage of eBay's money back guarantee.
josepdonova-56
OP11 months agoYeah looks like the standard corporate reaction too me! How about you,(EBAY POLICE) really crack down on the cesspool of buyers selling and ripping consumers off with bogus potentially dangerous counterfeit items! Call me when you actually do something. Regards Joe D
house*of*paws
Mentor11 months agoHi @josepdonova-56
There are no ‘eBay police’ … and I don’t believe eBay has ever claimed there were.
eBay has no way of knowing what a seller actually will ship to the buyer of their item. eBay offers ‘after the fact’ protection if the buyer files a return request, claiming that the item they received is counterfeit.
eBay isn’t here to read your posts. We are fellow buyers and sellers who volunteer answering questions for other members. We are unable to change eBay into what we may prefer they be.