03-14-2018 05:05 AM
After I hit the report button on a seller with a $1000+ fake handbag for sale ebay sent me the listing
and suggested I make an offer.
I guess that report button means NOTHING.
03-15-2018 05:56 PM
If they took action against a seller just on the say so of some random person who thinks they know more than they do (not accusing anyone of that here), they would very likely get hit with a metric buttload of actual bonafied libel lawsuits from sellers who get wrongfully sanctioned based on unfounded accusations. And that is something they likely could not handwave away in the UA. A policy like that would affect many more innocent sellers than fraudulent ones; and one wrongful action is one too many.
03-15-2018 06:52 PM
@def.a.posting.idwrote:not sure they value their community when they don't listen to a 10 year member in perfect standing
I can guarantee you that they will not listen to you, or any of the other millions of members who have been here a while and are in good standing.
03-15-2018 07:45 PM
@thallidguywrote:Heck, I've seen posts here by people who claim to have been active on eBay for as long as me, and they just make me wonder how anyone could spend that long with their head stuck up their backside.
So true. I have you beat by six months, and I don't know **bleep**. As a matter of fact, less every day (except that I should go ahead and censor my own posts in advance).
03-15-2018 08:00 PM
03-16-2018 05:22 AM
there are many good sellers of genuine items on eBay.
They don't sell a $1300 handbag with one dark picture.
its pretty easy to spot the fakes from the real ones.
someone will buy it, find out they got ripped off and eBays reputation goes down yet again.
03-16-2018 11:21 AM
I haven't seen the listing, but a $1300 handbag with a single dark picture could just as likely be a nooblet seller who has no clue how to effectively list here.
A piece of advice I like to give, which is just as applicable here as anywhere else...
I believe it was either Ben Franklin or perhaps the Apostle Paul who once said, "In all your endeavours, do not settle for halfarsed. Instead, make the effort to use both cheeks." 🙂
03-16-2018 11:57 AM - edited 03-16-2018 11:59 AM
@city*satinswrote:
@def.a.posting.idwrote:
why bother with a report button at all then
this $1300 bag is fake.
2. the owner of the counterfeited trademark is a VERO member and tells eBay to remove the listing (which they might or might not get around to doing before it sells nowadays - they seem to get backlogged) If the brand is a "VERO" brand, you can contact the company and notify them of the listing.
And, sometimes the original manufacturer/trademark holders just don't seem to care.
I spotted a very expensive, limited-edition collectible being advertised as "an XYZ." Being familiar with that house, I knew it wasn't an "XYZ" at all. Knowing that eBay usually doesn't do anything (at least nothing that's apparent) with most "reported listings," I contacted the maker in the UK to advise someone had listed an item on eBay claiming "XYZ" provenance when the item was not.
I got a polite answer back, saying something along the line of: "Yes, that's not one of our items -- the seller must be confused."
I wanted to say, "Ummmm.... Okay, but doesn't it bother you someone is using your good name and reputation to sell something that is of inferior quality and in fact is not one of your items at all?" but I didn't. Apparently it was no issue to anyone, as the listing ran its course and someone bought it. Would like to know how that all worked out in the end because the item the buyer got was worth 10% of what it would have been if it indeed had been an "XYZ" piece.
So like the OP, I tried. But, quite often it seems, not too many people these days care...