@luckykey3 wrote:Thanks ... that's going to take a lot of effort, and I wonder if eBay will actually investigate how the ingredients are different in the fakes, and even the photo is a tad different on the bottle ... and will they read on the companies site that the company says they are the only one that sells them. --- When I have the time ... I might try doing all those reports.
Every once in a rare while, I'll find a lot of "compare to" listings (not allowed) for generics that are 1/3 the retail price of the name brand I'm hoping to list. If I have a bit of time before lunch or before I leave for the day, I'll report a dozen or so - after bookmarking the page in my browser. A week or two later, I'll recheck the bookmarks to see if the listing was removed or is still selling.
You are correct that eBay is handing off a lot of the grunt work to sellers. I think the idea is this: The big sellers, like the Diamond pay-to-play sellers, don't care about things like this. Small sellers do... but spending too much time policing eBay listings for zero income, and neglecting your own listing & shipping, is not good for your income or satisfaction with the site. So eBay lets the small fry complain away - after all, if enough of the 'noise' sellers go elsewhere, then eBay will be a 'quieter' place with less discord and only sellers who do exactly what eBay says, regardless of the effect on their own bottom line.
Or maybe I'm just seeing shadows behind the curtain that aren't really there. Hard to tell when it comes to eBay.....
-Bob.
