EBAY’S VERO PROGRAM IS A TOTAL SCAM THAT PROTECTS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THIEVES AND DROPSHIP FRAUD 🚨If you are an independent creator, author, or business owner trying to protect your copyrighted work, be warned: eBay does not care about federal copyright law, consumer protection, or intellectual property theft. Their system is completely broken, intentionally fraudulent, and designed to shield predatory scammers while completely stonewalling legitimate rights owners.Right now, bad-faith actors and automated scrapers are actively pirating my entire catalog of books, listing my stolen property for sale on eBay without my permission. To resolve this, I attempted to use eBay’s official legal channel—the VeRO (Verified Rights Owner) Program. What followed is a staggering display of corporate incompetence and negligence:THE DEAD EMAIL DECEPTION: On the 3rd of the month, eBay support officially directed me to submit my formal copyright takedown notices via email. After sending multiple urgent legal messages over a 6-week period and receiving absolute radio silence, I dug into the actual updates online. It turns out eBay completely stopped actively monitoring and processing that exact inbox on the 1st of the month—TWO DAYS BEFORE THEIR OWN SUPPORT STAFF TOLD ME TO USE IT. They literally handed me a dead, unmonitored mailbox to send my legal complaints to, effectively burying my reports while thieves actively profit off my hard work on their platform for over a month and a half.EXPLICIT CONSUMER FRAUD AND 4X PRICE-GOUGING: These automated parasites aren’t just stealing my intellectual property—they are actively price-gouging my readers. These scrapers are listing my books on eBay at four times their actual value. They are running a predatory dropshipping scam where they trap unsuspecting fans into paying insane markups for a book they don't even own yet. They wait for a sale, buy my book at normal price off my authentic storefront, and pocket a massive profit while dragging my reputation through the mud.THE 10-DAY SHIPPING LIE EXPOSED BY MY OWN BACKEND DATA: These fraudulent sellers are explicitly lying to consumers by claiming they hold "available physical inventory" of my books. I know for a fact they don't, because my publisher sales dashboards prove that zero copies of these books have ever been shipped to their operational locations. To cover up this dropshipping scam, they force buyers to wait a minimum of 10 days for shipping, hiding behind the ridiculous lie that it's for "payment processing." Payment processing takes seconds online. In reality, they are using that 10-day window to wait for a buyer to fall for their 4x price-gouging markup, order the book from my authentic storefront, and wait for standard retail shipping to deliver it. They are using false advertising to manipulate shipping metrics, and eBay’s dead VeRO compliance inbox is actively protecting this fraudulent racket. By ignoring formal copyright notifications and leaving a defunct, dead mailbox active for legal reports, eBay loses its safe harbor protections under federal law. They are actively facilitating massive consumer fraud, systemic copyright infringement, and digital piracy on a corporate scale.TO THE EXECUTIVES RUNNING EBAY:Your support staff is handing out obsolete information, your VeRO division is completely MIA, and you are actively facilitating copyright infringement and consumer mail fraud by making it impossible for independent authors to submit takedown notices. Fix your platform, escalate my tickets to a human supervisor in the Intellectual Property Division immediately, and delete these fraudulent, scraped listings. I am entirely done being ignored.
