Selling counterfeits

[nyymay46]

At one time when eBay first started they would remove a listing if it violated their rules, now days it seems as long as they make money on a listing they let it go. 

[inhawaii]

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@nyymay46 wrote:

At one time when eBay first started they would remove a listing if it violated their rules, now days it seems as long as they make money on a listing they let it go. 

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Not true.

Ebay removes listings for being counterfeit all the time.

I've had it happen to me.

Many others come here to complain it happened to them too. 

[eburtonlab]

Counterfeit items are not allowed to be listed on eBay at all. No one is authorized to sell counterfeit items. That fact alone does not stop some people from trying to sell them, however.

The problem is that unscrupulous or uninformed sellers can list genuine items and then deliver counterfeit items.

It is not always possible to look at a listing and know in advance exactly what, if anything, the seller intends to deliver. For one thing, a scammer can simply copy a listing from a genuine seller, using a genuine photo of a genuine item.

Except for a few specific categories of items that go through authentication, eBay never sees what the seller ships or the what the buyer receives, so there is nothing for eBay to check unless someone complains about what was received by invoking eBay's money back guarantee.

Sellers are responsible for the descriptions they provide, and buyers should not assume that eBay screens the listings in advance.

As long as counterfeits exist and there are folks trying to sell them, buyers will still have to be on the lookout for them, and avoid deals that are obviously too-good-to-be-true, whether they are being sold by accounts registered overseas or by domestic sellers wittingly or unwittingly buying counterfeits from overseas to sell here.

Buyers that doubt their ability to distinguish a genuine article from a counterfeit one should only consider purchasing from trustworthy sellers that have an established reputation for delivering exactly what was described, and should avoid deals that are too-good-to-be-true, or deals that are offered by inexperienced sellers that might disappear soon after the transaction is made, or else be prepared to get items authenticated by trusted sources within thirty days to be able to take advantage of eBay's money back guarantee.

Instead of reporting the listing, report the seller here:

https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/resolving-issues-sellers/report-issue-seller?id=4022

[dhbookds]

Need to report counterfeits to the rights holder......and let them file thru Vero.........No way for ebay to know, in general, if one person reports something whether their judgement is right or wrong.

[12345jamesstamps]

There is the eBay money back guarantee of a purchase.

There are counterfeits selling on all platforms.

Common sense will help a person from making a counterfeit purchase.

[dirk12955]

Stamp category:

5700+  listings with the word "Forgery"

1700+   Listings with the word "Fake"

20,000+   listings with the word "Replica"

2700+  listings with the word "Reproduction"

Coins and paper money:    

Under the stamp category when making a listing,   

A category for selling Stamps on ebay, 

Specialty Philately,

Fakes and reproductions and 

another for "Fantasy"

1200+  listings with the word "fake"

 564 listings with the word "Counterfeit"

8100+ listings with the word "Replica"

8000+  listings with the word "Reproduction"

I'm not sure how many terms are available to use to describe a fake coin or 

stamp or paper money.

But I'm sure there are specific categories on ebay to sell such items 

Not allowed indeed.......