eBay policy states that counterfeits are not allowed. Yet the entire platform is rife with counterfeits. From profiles claiming to be jewelers selling diamonds, often times several carats, even lab created diamonds are expensive when you get into multiple carats. Especially when you get into the internally flawless and colorless stones they claim to have. And will be glad to sell to you on a 14k solid gold setting the for a few hundred dollars. The listing and the description claim them to be lab created, but the price won't even pay for the setting. And the seller has to many to count in their shop. Or high end fragrances like Creed. They use a stolen picture of the bottle probably from the web because am actual picture of the bottle will show tale tell signs it's a counterfeit, like the name is in a satin or matte finish when the authentic one has the name in a high polish. Or the metallic finish that goes over the raised letting on the bottle isn't perfectly aligned with the raised lettering. A product that sells for $500 a bottle isn't going to have that mistake. Or the label is not centered or it's crooked, again $500 per bottle, this stuff cost more than a high end Champaign per fluid ounce, the label is going to be straight and it's going to be centered. The lid has a plastic insert that is set flush at one end and raised at the other. Again, at the price point this stuff sells at the insert is metal and it's set flush in the lid so the way around. Then there is the electronics, the shoes, and thousands of other products in here that are blatantly counterfeit. And out of the hundreds of reports I have filed on products that a 5 year old could tell they are counterfeit I have never received a communication that anything was done. Yet I constantly get communications that there was no violation. It's too the point that I'm beginning to fully understand. eBay profits from sales. It doesn't profit from suspending accounts. It doesn't profit from prohibiting sellers from selling counterfeit products. It only makes money when products are being sold. So there has to be an unspoken rule that if it's at all possible do not prevent sellers from selling counterfeit products. I use to spend close to $10,000 a year between a few different accounts on eBay. The counterfeit problem is so bad that I no longer trust anything coming from eBay to be authentic. I spend less than $100a year in here now. eBay is the place to go if you want cheap garbage from China. But do not go there if you want authentic. I feel for the good sellers. The ones that sell actual OEM goods. There are so many counterfeits that eBay refuses to address that the products from those who sell quality products simply aren't trusted to be what they say they are. Oh yeah, gotta love the sellers in the central US who don't speak English and ship everything from China. That one really opens your eyes to exactly who we are dealing with here.
