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counterfeit coin / Bullion
It's rampant on ebay and ebay does nothing to stop it. I've reported numerous listings and they respond with it is within the ebay terms BULL
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eburtonlab
Mentor10 months ago@3ddoc
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.
3ddoc
OP10 months agoI get it, but I think ebay needs to do a better job of flagging counterfeit items or those claiming to be real as in .999 silver. The autmated response to a claim is that they are following the rules. Ebay buyers deserve better
eburtonlab
Mentor10 months agoHow can eBay possibly know in advance what a seller might or might not ship based on a listing that the seller could have just copied from someone else? eBay never sees the item at all if it ships directly from the seller to the buyer.
eBay is not pre-screening listings for such things, and buyers should not be expecting eBay to do that. eBay won't do "a better job" at something that eBay does not do at all in the first place.
Buyers need to protect themselves by choosing carefully who they buy from rather than expecting someone else to do that for them.
3ddoc
OP10 months agothis is crap, ebay does little or nothing to protect buyers, they don't verify sellers location and let anything with a heart beat sell crap
eburtonlab
Mentor10 months agoebay does little or nothing to protect buyers
eBay has a money back guarantee for buyers, but buyers have to actually use it in the time allowed. Buyers need to be able to tell if what they have received is genuine or not.