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How to report a potential fraudster
Hello eBay community,
I have suspicion that there's a seller who is a fraud. They joined ebay only a few weeks ago, has no reviews, sells only 4 items in the store, sells the items at gratuitous lower price that even a used item anywhere even on ebay and what deepened the suspicion was certain questions asked they have not responded. Including to send actual pictures of the item not stock photos from Google. The seller doesn't accept returns on items and there's no shipping address. Also i discovered they have several stores pulling the same items and prices but different names. Now I didn't buy from this seller but many have and I'm a bit worried they fell for a scam. I experienced this before and learned well if something is too good to be true it's probably because it is. Don't know what should be done because this is sad if it is a scam or who to report the suspicions too.
Signed
Concerned ebayer
eburtonlab
Mentor1 year agoThey joined ebay only a few weeks ago, has no reviews, sells only 4 items in the store, sells the items at gratuitous lower price that even a used item anywhere even on ebay and what deepened the suspicion was certain questions asked they have not responded.
Those are all excellent reasons to choose not to do business with the seller, but they are not proof of anything -- much less proof of fraud -- and eBay is unlikely to act on your suspicions, even if they are entirely well-founded.
Regardless of the seller's return policy, eBay does have a money back guarantee for items that are not received or not as described, though that relies on buyers correctly invoking the guarantee, which may be difficult if the seller provides false tracking that appears to show delivery, or the seller delivers a counterfeit item that is not recognized as such.
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.
Instead of reporting the listing, report the seller here:
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/resolving-issues-sellers/report-issue-seller?id=4022