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How to effectively report fraud when multiple sellers have exact same item

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What's wrong with this picture?  3 items, exact same picture with 3 prices and 3 different sellers.  I tried to report but feel like it is falling on deaf ears.  They are asking thousands of dollars, so this is not petty crime.

 

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How to effectively report fraud when multiple sellers have exact same item

People can use anyone's photos. If I want, I could use one of yours for a listing.

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@coolections wrote:

People can use anyone's photos. If I want, I could use one of yours for a listing.


Yes, but each seller says the photos are of the actual used club being sold, showing it's fine condition.  Even if everything else is on the up and up, surely that is dishonesty.

 

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How to effectively report fraud when multiple sellers have exact same item

Two of the listings have the club located in the U.S.; one, in Japan.

 

It is very common for brokers in Japan to list thousands of items that are actually being sold by a third party. If a purchase is made on eBay through one of those brokers, the broker arranges to purchase the actual item and have it shipped to the eBay purchaser. This is very common for things like guitars and cameras listed in Japan, where you will see the same unique item being offered for sale by several sellers.

 

There are also scammers that follow a very similar pattern, except that the scammers do not actually ship anything.

 

It is usually possible to tell the difference between the two by examining feedback. The brokers tend to have lots of feedback for similar transactions, and perhaps a few complaints about cancelled transactions (where the item was sold to someone else by a competing broker before the eBay listing could be ended). Scammers tend to have little or no feedback for selling similar sorts of items, at least until many negatives start to roll in.

 

Although eBay rules do not permit sellers to list items not in their possession or directly under contract, in practice many sellers do so anyway and eBay does little regarding such listings unless there is a problem with a transaction.

 

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How to effectively report fraud when multiple sellers have exact same item

ebay's catalogue allows sellers to use others images in their listings. Then you have stock photos, and that might very well be the case here. As for pricing, they can ask whatever they want, that's their business to decide.

 

It might be best in the future to do your homework first before jumping to conclusions.

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How to effectively report fraud when multiple sellers have exact same item

Thank you.  This is the likely reason.  For the naysayers on the thread, it is an exceedingly rare item (10 made) and they were individually stamped 1-10.  So 3 different people can't have #10 which all photos show.   Misleading maybe, rules violating maybe....but not necessarily fraud if the person who buys it gets it.

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@golfclubguru wrote:

 

What's wrong with this picture?  3 items, exact same picture with 3 prices and 3 different sellers.  I tried to report but feel like it is falling on deaf ears.  They are asking thousands of dollars, so this is not petty crime.


Unless you buy one and do not get what is pictured, your allegations of fraud and crime are idle speculation.

 


@golfclubguru wrote:

For the naysayers on the thread, it is an exceedingly rare item (10 made) and they were individually stamped 1-10. So 3 different people can't have #10 which all photos show.


Additional information that would have been helpful in your original post.

 

 

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This one is much worse 117 listings same item multiple sellers with multiple listings same inventory. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=20+Bicycle+wheel+aluminum+...

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Maybe the price difference is based on how many strokes these putters will save per round of golf the  different sellers claimed.  Golfers and fishermen are known to be pretty good story tellers.

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Sellers are allowed to use stock pictures.

Sellers are allowed to charge any price they want for their goods.

There are many items on eBay that are being sold by different sellers. 

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How to effectively report fraud when multiple sellers have exact same item

One more thing - we  live in a "free market" country.  This simply means that the same can of corn or gallon of milk can be sold for different prices at each of the grocery stores or quick stop gas stations in your neighborhood, city, county etc.

"I have the right to remain silent but I didn't have the ability." Ron White, Fritch, Texas
"Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution." A. Einstein
"The Devil made me do it!" - Flip Wilson
"If the band can only play loud - they ain't no good - peps too!" J.R. Johnson
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How to effectively report fraud when multiple sellers have exact same item

Hi everyone,

 

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

 

Thank you for understanding. 

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