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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2610181, member: 76863"]There's no harm in people reporting listings and if they enjoy doing so by all means continue on. eBay certainly doesn't have any interest in shutting down international sales unless they're forced too which I am not even sure how you could do that. </p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion it isn't unaware buyers that end up making most of the purchases, rather greed takes over. To use eBay you obviously have to be on the internet which means every buyer has all the ability in the world to look up information. Most of the time they could literally just look at other sold listings and be able to make comparisons on authenticity for most of the fakes. But seeing those great deals or thinking they are saving a bunch of money/can get it graded and make money on it takes over and they never stop to think why is this item so much cheaper/why is no one else bidding this up to market levels. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the fakes that actually are good information is the key. No amount of outside monitoring and intervention will be able to prevent fakes from selling if someone is just blindly buying raw coins on the internet. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am not sure the impact it would have on someones account, but I do know on some of the higher priced fakes one of the things some people have done is just bid the item up to moon money where no one else would conceivably bid on it and just not pay for it to prevent a sale if it wasn't removed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2610181, member: 76863"]There's no harm in people reporting listings and if they enjoy doing so by all means continue on. eBay certainly doesn't have any interest in shutting down international sales unless they're forced too which I am not even sure how you could do that. In my opinion it isn't unaware buyers that end up making most of the purchases, rather greed takes over. To use eBay you obviously have to be on the internet which means every buyer has all the ability in the world to look up information. Most of the time they could literally just look at other sold listings and be able to make comparisons on authenticity for most of the fakes. But seeing those great deals or thinking they are saving a bunch of money/can get it graded and make money on it takes over and they never stop to think why is this item so much cheaper/why is no one else bidding this up to market levels. For the fakes that actually are good information is the key. No amount of outside monitoring and intervention will be able to prevent fakes from selling if someone is just blindly buying raw coins on the internet. I am not sure the impact it would have on someones account, but I do know on some of the higher priced fakes one of the things some people have done is just bid the item up to moon money where no one else would conceivably bid on it and just not pay for it to prevent a sale if it wasn't removed.[/QUOTE]
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