Fraudulent advertising

[deadsetlive]

I tried to get eBay to do something about a certain seller's fraudulent advertising. ( I would say who but If I do the eBay community gods will remove my post again). I have tried to leave negative feedback on the certain seller's feedback but for unexplained reasons, it has never been posted on the seller's TOP RATED ranking feedback page. I truly believe eBay should stop allowing sellers to advertise warranty's that are fake and non-existent. When a seller advertises a 2-year warranty and when their product only lasts 9 months is it fraudulent advertising when they agree to replace the defective products (that originally cost $250 with free shipping ) but want $200 in shipping charges. 

I wonder how anybody is supposed to inform people about FRAUD when eBay won't do anything and the eBay community overseers pull any post that mentions the name of a seller. They call it SHAMMING,  trying to inform people about a seller who is using fraudulent advertising isn't shaming, it's called DOING THE RIGHT THING. Unethical business practices have become the normal way of doing business.

[stainlessenginecovers]

If they allow 'anybody' to claim 'anything' against another member, the site would be full of Millions of False Accusations. 

Warranties are with the manufacturer, not the seller.

Most items sold on eBay or no longer 'warrantied' by the manufacturer. 

Granted, sounds like that seller is pulling a fast one on you, but anything purchased on eBay is only good for 30 to 60 days. No returns after 60 days. Credit Card chargebacks, should you have used a credit card, usually go back 120 days. 9 months is simply too long. 

Use it as a learning lesson; buy anything from any site that is NOT the Manufacturers Site or a fully accredited distributor of that item, the warranty is usually worthless. 

[deadsetlive]

Let me get this straight, Ya'll think it's fine and dandy when a seller advertises like the following part of their ad.

Specifications

Spring rate Front:12  kg/mm (672 in/lbs)

Spring rate Rear: 9 kg/mm (504 in/lbs)

Adjustable damper: Non Adjustable Damper

Adjustable height: Yes

Adjustable camber plate: No

Warranty:2 year warranty for any manufacturing defect  

  This is blatant false advertising. This company agreed the parts were defective, the problem arose when they wanted $200 in shipping for an item that only costs $235 with free shipping. If that ain't fraud then we're all doomed.

 The next thing is for some unknown reason my review of this seller still has never been posted, along with all the other reviews from other buyers who were screwed by this seller. These sellers get away with this type of fraud with the help of eBay. Whenever I try to inform other buyers of the name of this seller my post are removed. You are not allowed to mention a seller's name if you want to warn others they will screw you.

[g00dies4saleonline]

Apparently, all "top-rated" sellers have to do is whine to eBay to get any negative feedback removed. Believe me, I don't understand it either. Seems like they'd just go ahead and take the negative feedback button away from buyers that purchase from "top-rated" sellers since they can pretty much get away with whatever they please.

[fab_finds4u]

Are you going to spend the rest of your time here complaining about  Top Rated Sellers having  feedback removed? Jeeze ain't you over it yet?  It's a benefit eBay gives to Top Rated Sellers. (seller protection).  eBay has buyer protection, too. They want you to get your money back instead of trashing the seller. 

[deadsetlive]

As long as everybody just accepts all the fraudulent advertising on eBay as that's just the way it is, there's no reason for these sellers to change or for eBay to make their sellers stop using fraudulent advertising. 

 Amazon has replaced anything I've ever needed to be replaced under Warranty. They even refunded my $800 for a Snapper lawnmower that I used for 18 months due to the Snapper dealer in the little town I live in refusing to do warranty work on it because I didn't buy it from them. 

 eBay needs to focus a lot more attention on backing up their buyers, without buyers you won't need any sellers.  

  This ain't that difficult to do or complicated to understand. Just stop allowing sellers to use fraudulent/false advertising anywhere on eBay. If eBay can see every time I post the name of the seller I am taking about in seconds after I post it and have it removed, eBay can do whatever they want. We all just need to make them do the ethical thing instead of the unethical thing. I no longer buy or sell anything on eBay.

[g00dies4saleonline]

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@deadsetlive wrote:

  This ain't that difficult to do or complicated to understand. Just stop allowing sellers to use fraudulent/false advertising anywhere on eBay. If eBay can see every time I post the name of the seller I am taking about in seconds after I post it and have it removed, eBay can do whatever they want. We all just need to make them do the ethical thing instead of the unethical thing. I no longer buy or sell anything on eBay.

Makes sense to me. However, from what I've witnessed myself, eBay has a tendancy to allow certain sellers to get away with pretty much whatever they want. Apparently you only need be a top-rated seller to have diplomatic imunity around here.

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[quiltgeek]

If you buy from an authorized dealer, then the manufacturer will probably make good on their warrantee.  Even then, it usually means you have to submit the warrantee information with a receipt from the authorized dealer.

If you buy from an independent seller, as you do here on eBay, the manufacturer is NOT going to honor the warrantee since they don't have a relationship with the seller.

[kathiec]

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@deadsetlive wrote:

As long as everybody just accepts all the fraudulent advertising on eBay as that's just the way it is, there's no reason for these sellers to change or for eBay to make their sellers stop using fraudulent advertising. 

 Amazon has replaced anything I've ever needed to be replaced under Warranty. They even refunded my $800 for a Snapper lawnmower that I used for 18 months due to the Snapper dealer in the little town I live in refusing to do warranty work on it because I didn't buy it from them. 

 eBay needs to focus a lot more attention on backing up their buyers, without buyers you won't need any sellers.  

  This ain't that difficult to do or complicated to understand. Just stop allowing sellers to use fraudulent/false advertising anywhere on eBay. If eBay can see every time I post the name of the seller I am taking about in seconds after I post it and have it removed, eBay can do whatever they want. We all just need to make them do the ethical thing instead of the unethical thing. I no longer buy or sell anything on eBay.

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I wish people would stop comparing eBay to Amazon. It's an apples to oranges comparison. Amazon is selling directly to consumers. So for most items they're considered an authorized dealer, so manufacturers warranties are valid. Ebay, on the other hand, is a platform where millions of individual sellers sell their merchandise. Ebay sells nothing. Very few eBay sellers are authorized dealers, so most warranties mentioned here are worthless. As for "doing the ethical thing", if you can figure out a way for eBay to vet each of the billion+ listings here in real time to catch the fraudulent ones, I'm sure they'd love to hear it.