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Why isn't ebay doing anything about the people selling counterfeit coins?
Simple why are you letting people sell fake coins?
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Simple why are you letting people sell fake coins?
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janet9988
·10 months agoHow do you even KNOW they are fake if you are not buying them?
bonanza125
·10 months agoEbay is not an expert at coins. Unless there is clear evidence that the coin is fake they rely on you as the buyer to determine it. There is a moneyback guarantee.
roccotacodad54
·10 months agoeBay has no way of knowing if a coin is counterfeit by the listing. No one can tell until the coin is delivered to the buyer.
Most of these coins come from a certain region in the world. A region I won't buy anything from online.
If people want to be foolish enough to buy counterfeits listed with a to-good-to-be-true price hopefully they will learn. If enough learn sales will plummet, then it will stop.
Problem is "There's one born every minute"..................................
kathiec
·10 months ago@runninhorse7
There are nearly 2 billion listings on eBay, and eBay has never seen or examined any of the items being sold. So how exactly do you propose they determine which of those listings are counterfeit?
runninhorse7
OP10 months agoFrom the negative feedback that people have posted and the refunds they have had to make.
soh.maryl
·10 months ago1. No one here is "letting people sell fake coins". When you post here, you're not addressing eBay.
2. As I'm pretty sure you know, no one employed by eBay sees or evaluates coins before they're listed here for sale. If you have any suggestion as to how eBay could do anything about any counterfeit item before it's listed or sold, how about offering those suggestions?
msha3839
·10 months agoAre you expecting eBay to babysit you? Do your homework and spend money wisely..
runninhorse7
OP10 months agoJust so you know i haven't bought any coins that are counterfeit. I was wanting ebay to do something, instead of telling me where i could go to let them know.
jameshen1
·10 months agoMy, you seem like a delight.
tinsoldierunderground
·10 months agoThe only thing that gets ebay's attention is when enough INAD (item not as described, doesn't match description) cases are filed against a given seller, then they get banned. Ebay will not take your word or mine for what constitutes a counterfeit listing, nor do they have the personnel or expertise to make that judgement.
The site has become far too large with far too many categories for any kind of feasible policing effort that isn't complaint driven.
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·10 months ago@runninhorse7 Wow aren’t you a delightful ray of sunshine!
eburtonlab
·10 months ago@runninhorse7
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.
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·10 months ago@runninhorse7
I'm not letting anyone do anything.
You are not addressing anyone who works at ebay here we are ebay buyers and sellers in this community.
What do you expect them to do about that?
eBay can't micromanage every sellers listings. They go by reports from buyers who open returns.
tobaccocardyahoo
·10 months agoBecause everyone who buys coins online knows how to recognize counterfeit coins and starts a thread to complain about them on this forum.
There is no risk of anyone buying them, and if they do there is always the Ebay Moneyback Guarantee.
Most people are not buying coins, bullion or other such products online.