FAKE AUTO PARTS

Question

WHY DOES EBAY ALLOW SELLERS TO SELL "FAKE" AUTOMOTIVE PARTS?

I spoke to Honda / Acura Corporation and the parts for those vehicles identified as OEM Honda / Acura are in fact NOT! Those parts are made in China by an unauthorized company. If they were real Honda / Acura parts they would have the Honda / Acura Logo on the packaging. Honda / Acura says Buyer Beware. *Even though packaging may be marked Honda / Acura they are NOT.

Example: A Timing belt tensioner for a Honda / Acura is $200+. On EBAY you can find this part for $40. Not the real part, aftermarket.

millcreekh-65 · Answer

luminary_auto-parts are NOT OEM.

millcreekh-65 · Answer

Thank you for your response.

I asked the following seller if the parts they listed for sale on EBAY were Genuine OEM Honda / Acura parts.

Seller: sqs-auto-parts13 Reply: "I'm very sorry, dear friend, but these might not be the parts you're looking for."

eburtonlab · Answer

@millcreekh-65

If the verified rights owner tells eBay to take down a listing that is infringing, eBay will do so.

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.