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Many sellers misrepresenting their products
Many sellers are misrepresenting their products in item titles apparently to draw people to their item under false pretenses. They also may be preying on the ignorance of customers hoping they don't notice that their product is not really what the title says. This way the customer sees a name of an expensive product, but a very cheap price, and drawn to the item, when in reality, the item is actually different, with a different name, and of lower quality which the buyer may not catch or understand.
Example: Viking pool cues are made by Americans in the USA and sell for $400 up to thousands of dollars, and are a totally different cue from the lower quality Valhalla made generally by the Chinese which sells for maybe $100 to maybe $300 ish. Both Viking and Valhalla pool cues fall under the same corporation but are totally different. These dishonest sellers, and there are very many, are conning buyers. If the pool cue says Valhalla on it, then it should be called Valhalla in the item title. Not called Viking or even Viking Valhalla cues. It is dishonest and unethical.
Sellers do a similar thing with the name McDermott. The McDermott pool cues have the name McDermott on the cue and is like Viking, higher quality and price pool cues, and generally made in the USA. The company that makes the McDermott brand also make the Star and Lucky pool cues which are like the Valhalla pool cues of lower quality and price and generally made outside the USA like China. Yet sellers will use the name McDermott in the title when the name of the cheaper cues are Star or Lucky.
If Ebay allows even one seller of any product to misrepresent their products, then others will do it, and you end up with many sellers misrepresenting their products.
eburtonlab
Mentor11 months agoCounterfeit 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