Report Fake Forever Stamp Listings to USPIS

[fbusoni]

I'm going to start sending USPIS links to eBay listings that are selling manifestly fake Forever Stamps.

Contact information is below.   

(I know we can report these listings to eBay.  The trick is to make USPIS aware of the extent of the problem from the eBay seller's perspective with links to real listings, in the hope that USPS will talk to eBay about preventing such listings being added in the first place.)

 

 

[wastingtime101]

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History shows, eBay will eventually get around to taking those listings down when you report through the listing.

But when you report to USPS the listings disappear more quickly.

Not sure if the same applies today, but there was a big discussion about this a couple years ago and involving USPS was the way to get quicker action.

Get rid of the fake stamps from China. Our postage stamp prices have gone up too much the past few years.

[fbusoni]

The fact that eBay and USPS have a close association, yet eBay allows this dirty behavior on the part of Chinese sellers to go on, speaks volumes about the rot that permeates eBay HQ.

[12345jamesstamps]

I manage to get 2 listings taken down in 2 days.

'report this item'...

In the description or reason why reporting listing...you have to use eBay words why item should be taken off and not your own words...as far as why reporting it.

There are certain words and wordage that artificial intelligence looks for.

Misspelled words and broken sentences will not get it de-listed.

Got to be good at the English language.

Tis am example think of a job opening with a 1000 resumes which no one will read...LOL

Certain words on a resume gets a interview.

But who has the time to do this for all these listings?...LOL.

[12345jamesstamps]

So one would go into eBay : Stamps Policy.

And as the reason you are reporting it...you write word for word what eBay saids.

"Forever stamps can be sold by eligible sellers only" as an example.

Just use eBay words...no mis-spelling words and such.

This is where artificial intelligence picks it up.

[fbusoni]

I used your suggested language.   Took ten minutes.

Incidentally, lots of Chinese sellers are listing single rolls of stamps for $15 and $16 and are selling them under Office supplies --> Sticky notes, and other unrelated categories.

Memo to eBay's crack software engineering team:  Figure out a way to force sellers who are selling stamps to properly categorize them.  This can be done with a few lines of computer code.

[12345jamesstamps]

Imagine all the time people wasted doing it in the past.

Good old artificial intelligence which this started years and years ago when companies have job openings and got thousands of resumes and only certain words on a resume got an interview.

No one can read thousands of resumes for one job opening.

[dbfolks166mt]

     USPS is quite aware of the extent of the problem and while China is a major counterfeiter one of the problems is the stamps have become so widely proliferated that it is difficult to trace the origin back to China. The same problem exists with all the counterfeit coins and other items where China is the source. The last counterfeit coins I purchased came out of the UK but fully suspect China was the root source. 

     One of the things USPS has started to do is if a counterfeit stamp is detected during the sorting process the letter/package is simply removed from the process and discarded with NO notification to either the sender or the recipient. 

     If you know the stamps are counterfeit order a few dozen rolls and when they arrive open a NAD case. The seller will have to fully refund and pay the FVF's on the sale, you will have to keep the item since you cannot send counterfeit items through the USPS then turn the counterfeit stamps over to your local postmaster along with the sellers information. 

     With all the botched unrequired and unrequested changes eBay makes if they cannot put a little effort into reducing this problem maybe the buyer community can by hitting the counterfeit sellers where it hurts financially.